Medford Names Next Finance Director

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

Dickinson, selected after a 6-month search course of action, will transition to the new purpose as he wraps up his obligations in Nantucket. He will oversee Medford’s finance department and guide the coordination and implementation of the city’s $192 million spending plan.

“Bob has the thorough skillset, expertise and eager fiscal eye that will make him an integral member of our finance workforce,” Lungo-Koehn mentioned in a assertion. “I am so thrilled that he will be becoming a member of us and bringing his exceptional budgeting point of view and solid get the job done-ethic to our city.”

The metropolis posted the opening in July right after the resignation of Aleesha Nunley Benjamin, who alleged a hostile get the job done ecosystem on the element of the mayor and her previous chief of staff members. An impartial investigator later on identified neither get together violated the city’s anti-harassment plan.

Dickinson has used a lot more than a decade in Nantucket’s finance division, serving as accounting clerk from 2006-2011 and assistant town accountant because March 2011. On Nantucket, Dickinson oversaw dollars, accounts receivable and withholdings reconciliations, in addition to encouraging establish the town’s $97 million budget. He managed the town’s accounting process, Munis, and created yearly city audits and tax recaps.

“I’m honored to have the option to operate with the administration to craft a spending budget and assist established priorities and fiscal objectives for the town,” Dickinson stated in a assertion. “The mayor has an formidable vision for Medford, and I cannot hold out to get to work to make it a fact.”

Dickinson, a certified governmental accountant by the Massachusetts Municipal Auditors’ and Accountants Affiliation, has a bachelor’s diploma from Cornell College and earned a master’s diploma in Community and Personal Administration from the Yale School of Management.