While employed as a project manager within the council's children's services department, Bintu Tijani spent 12 months concocting fake invoices to siphon off almost a 10th of her team's annual budget into her own bank accounts.
On Friday a judge told the 35-year-old expectant mother that a lengthy spell behind bars was the only appropriate punishment for the "serious and sophisticated fraud".
Prosecutors are also launching a claim to claw back her illegal profits under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Peterborough Crown Court was told Tijani, of Abbotsbury, Orton Malborne, Peterborough, secured a job with the council in May 2004, despite having disclosed a criminal conviction from 10 years earlier for credit card fraud.
As manager of the council's family support strategy team, she was responsible for an annual budget of £1.2 million and dealt with funding for children's services.
But the court heard she abused her seniority to create an elaborate scheme, using fraudulent invoices from imaginary companies.
Ebraham Mooncey, prosecuting, said: "Over a period of approximately one year, she submitted 12 false invoices totalling £110,250, knowing them to be fraudulent, for her own financial gain."
Evidence of Tijani's wrongdoing was uncovered by fraud investigators at the council following her suspension from work on an unrelated matter in October last year.
She was sacked a month later, and the evidence was passed on to the police.
Hugh Vass, mitigating, said his client admitted the offences at the first opportunity, but she could not explain where all the money had gone.
"If she knows, she has chosen not to disclose it," he said.
"She says £80,000 was sent to her mother in Nigeria, and she was also involved with a man who was unemployed and claims she had got into debt subsidising his lifestyle.
"It is right that the ratepayers of Peterborough have lost a considerable amount of money. continues here
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