CITY OF LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA
The City of Lake Worth offers an outstanding opportunity to an experienced municipal finance director to provide strong financial accountability and prudent financial advice to the City Manager and City Commission.
Lake Worth is a coastal city of 37,000 residents and 7 square miles, located in Palm Beach County, Florida. The City incorporated in 1913 and operates under a council/manager form of government. It is a dynamic, multi-cultural city with a strong social and environmental consciousness. The current members of the City Commission are activists and have a very strong commitment to good government, transparency in government, citizen involvement and input to the governing process, and sustainability
Lake Worth has 357 full-time employees and an all funds annual budget of $138 million. The budget is large for a city of its size because the City provides electric power services to the community. Police, fire and emergency medical services are all provided through contractual arrangements with other government agencies.
The City Manager, Susan Stanton, was appointed to the position in April 2009. She served as the City Manager of Largo, Florida for over fourteen years and was previously City Manager of Brea, Kentucky. She is a high performance manager who is driven to upgrade the quality of life and quality of government in the communities she serves. She puts together cohesive, achievement-oriented management teams and is in the process of building such a team in Lake Worth.
ABOUT THE POSITION
The Finance Department has responsibility for accounting, financial reporting, debt and treasury management, and utility collections. The Department has a staff of 36 employees, twelve of whom are in finance/accounting and twenty four are assigned to revenue management/utility collections.
Turnover has been a problem in the Department. A Comptroller was recently hired from the external auditor’s firm and there are five professional accountants on staff.
The 2008 audit was only recently-completed and carried forward many findings from the previous years’ audits, so addressing and resolving the audit findings will be a very significant priority for the new Director.
For more information about the position, including the education and experience requirements and salary, please review the recruitment brochure on our site.
HOW TO APPLY
The City is handling the front-end of the recruitment and The Mercer Group will become involved when a short list of candidates is developed. To apply, send resumes and a cover letter electronically to Diane Clark, Human Resources Director for the City no later than December 1, 2009 at the following email address dclark@lakeworth.org.
Please be aware that applications are subject to Florida’s open records law.