Melanie Larose named finance director for City of Brownwood
Melanie Larose has been named the City of Brownwood’s new finance director.
Larose has labored for the Metropolis of Brownwood for 20 yrs. She joined the metropolis in February 2001 as the main accountant. In 2016, Larose grew to become the assistant director of Finance.
She is an financial investment officer with the metropolis and has served on the Fireman’s Aid and Retirement Fund Board because 2017 and the Inner Audit Committee considering the fact that 2007.
Ahead of working for the City, Larose was an accountant for a lot more than three yrs with non-public accounting firms.
She has a bachelor of small business administration with a important in accounting from Tarleton Condition University. She has been a Licensed Government Finance Officer given that 2015.
Since 2016, Larose has been managing the day-to-day functions of the city’s finance, accounting, purchasing and utility billing departments. She has management encounter as the manager of the supervisors in these departments.
A short while ago, Larose has been instrumental in digitizing the consumer expertise for utility billing, implementing an on the net vendor databases and taking care of a main program conversion.
She has a extensive being familiar with of municipal finance, investments, budgeting, fireman’s pension fund, AP/AR, payroll, and insurance policy coverage.
“Melanie has the great mix of information and experience to advance into the finance director situation,” Town Manager Emily Crawford mentioned. “She is passionate about Brownwood and is devoted the metropolis, the residents and her co-staff.
Melanie represents the ISERVE main values of the metropolis and I search forward to operating together with her.”
Larose has been a resident of Brown County her entire daily life. She and her husband, Scott, have a daughter who is a senior at Brownwood Substantial University.
The Larose household treasures relatives time and competes in livestock shows and Brownwood Girl Lions athletics.
Former finance director Walter Middleton retired on Jan. 27 right after 22 several years of services.