Medford Names Next Finance Director

MEDFORD, MA — Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn has named Nantucket Assistant Town Accountant Robert Dickinson the future director of finance in Medford.

Dickinson, selected just after a 6-month search approach, will transition to the new job as he wraps up his obligations in Nantucket. He will oversee Medford’s finance office and direct the coordination and implementation of the city’s $192 million price range.

“Bob has the thorough skillset, practical experience and keen money eye that will make him an integral member of our finance team,” Lungo-Koehn explained in a assertion. “I am so thrilled that he will be signing up for us and bringing his exceptional budgeting standpoint and sturdy get the job done-ethic to our metropolis.”

The city posted the opening in July immediately after the resignation of Aleesha Nunley Benjamin, who alleged a hostile get the job done natural environment on the element of the mayor and her previous main of team. An independent investigator afterwards decided neither bash violated the city’s anti-harassment coverage.

Dickinson has spent much more than a decade in Nantucket’s finance department, serving as accounting clerk from 2006-2011 and assistant town accountant due to the fact March 2011. On Nantucket, Dickinson oversaw dollars, accounts receivable and withholdings reconciliations, in addition to assisting produce the town’s $97 million spending budget. He managed the town’s accounting method, Munis, and formulated once-a-year city audits and tax recaps.

“I’m honored to have the prospect to get the job done with the administration to craft a price range and enable set priorities and fiscal ambitions for the metropolis,” Dickinson reported in a assertion. “The mayor has an ambitious vision for Medford, and I can’t wait around to get to do the job to make it a truth.”

Dickinson, a qualified governmental accountant by the Massachusetts Municipal Auditors’ and Accountants Affiliation, has a bachelor’s diploma from Cornell College and attained a master’s diploma in General public and Non-public Management from the Yale School of Administration.