Carpentersville hires new finance director
Carpentersville has hired a new finance director who knows the turf.
Catherine Haley, 47, of West Dundee, starts work today. She grew up in Bartlett and from 2001 through 2011 worked as Roselle’s assistant finance director. Before that, she worked as a treasurer and accountant for West Dundee.
Budget cuts eliminated her position in Roselle, so she spent a two-month stint working as the business manager for the Streamwood-based Poplar Creek Library District.
Haley holds a finance degree from Northern Illinois University and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. She is grateful for the opportunity in Carpentersville and looks forward to maintaining its climate of fiscal responsibility.
“I think that there’s a really strong staff in place and I’m just looking to build on that foundation,” Haley said. “It’s kind of like home to me and it’s just a perfect fit.”
Just one other person applied for the job in Carpentersville, said Linda Mogren, director of the village’s human resources.
Mogren said Haley brings a lot of “good, technical skill to the village” and is already well versed in the financial software the village now uses.
Haley’s starting salary is $92,864 a year, but she could make more, depending on a performance evaluation she’ll receive within the next six months,
Like other nonunion employees, she also will receive a one-percent pay bump May 1, Mogren said.
Haley succeeds Lisa Happ, the village’s finance director for the past six years. Happ left in January to run the village of Schaumburg’s finance department.