Jennifer Scharf

Biography

Jennifer joined Prospera in June 2022 as Chief Financial Officer. She supports our FUSE strategy, while instilling a financial mindset throughout our organization.

With more than 15 years of financial services experience at organizations in Greater Vancouver, including PwC, Jennifer specialized in financial services and worked closely with a number of credit unions. Her most recent role was at Central 1, where she was the VP, Finance, and prior to that she was VP, Finance at Peoples Group, where she was heavily involved in obtaining their OSFI Bank Charter and oversaw mergers and acquisitions.

Jennifer is a Chartered Professional Accountant with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Simon Fraser University and a master’s degree in professional accounting from the University of Saskatchewan. She’s also a part-time accounting instructor at BCIT’s School of Business.

In addition to her financial expertise, Jennifer is highly regarded for her values-based leadership, coaching and mentoring skills, ability to build strong relationships across organizations and support process improvement initiatives.

Jennifer is also passionate about her local community of Pitt Meadows and loves spending time there with her two kids.