Suzanne Bump, Massachusetts State Auditor-Elect, today announced her intention to seek applicants from across the country to fill the role of Deputy Auditor for Audit Operations. The Deputy will be a key part of the Auditor-Elect’s management team, overseeing and managing all aspects of the audit operations, with an emphasis on expanding the scope of performance audits to evaluate the success or failure of government operations.
Auditor-Elect Bump said, “I want to expand on the work of the State Auditor’s Audit Operations, strengthening its audit capabilities and making greater use of performance audits and other tools to help make state government better by increasing its effectiveness, efficiency, transparency, and accountability”.
Bump explained that she is looking for an outstanding CPA with government auditing and leadership experience, and is working with local and national associations of auditing professionals, including the National State Auditors Association to help in the recruitment of candidates for the position.
Bump continued, “It is vital that the State Auditor examines not just where and why tax dollars are being spent, but also how well our government agencies and programs are performing. For the Deputy Auditor for Audit Operations, I am seeking a candidate committed to implementing the idea that enhanced performance auditing can help accomplish my goal that every tax dollar brought into State coffers goes where it is supposed to go and does what it is supposed to do”.
The Auditor-Elect also named Laura M. Marlin, former Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety, as First Deputy Auditor, and Gerald McDonough, General Counsel for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development as Deputy Auditor for Legal and Policy.
Marlin brings to the office more than a decade of management experience in the public sector. As Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety from May 2007 through May 2010, Marlin oversaw a state agency with seven offices across the Commonwealth, administering the Massachusetts workplace safety and health, asbestos, lead and wage-related programs. Prior to being appointed Commissioner, Marlin served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Attorney General Thomas Reilly and as an Assistant Attorney General prosecuting cases involving computer crimes, fraud, embezzlement and public corruption.
As General Counsel in the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, Gerald McDonough helped to reorganize the state’s labor relations agencies, and has been helping the new Department of Transportation navigate through complicated labor issues. McDonough has been a partner at the Boston law firm Holtz & Reed, LLP, and he is the author of the annual supplement to Alexander J. Cella’s Administrative Law and Practice treatise, part of the Massachusetts Practice Series published by West Publishing, the most cited work of its kind on administrative law in Massachusetts. Prior to joining Holtz & Reed, Mr. McDonough was General Counsel and Deputy Treasurer to State Treasurer Shannon P. O’Brien.
“Both Laura Marlin and Gerald McDonough are accomplished professionals with a passion for public service that matches my own,” said the Auditor-Elect. “They will be enormously helpful to me as I pursue my mission of making government work better.”
Suzanne Bump will be sworn into office on January 19th. Bump will be the twenty-second State Auditor in Massachusetts history.
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