Saba Hires Interim Manager for Department of Finance

The Executive Council of Saba, has hired Mr. Frank Versteegen as the interim manager for the Department of Finance. Mr. Versteegen has for worked for municipal governments for the past 27 years in several capacities. For the first fifteen years of his career he was an employee of various municipalities. It was then that he decided to look at working with municipalities from a different perspective and decided to become a consultant, and worked for three different companies, the largest being BMC, major consulting company with local governments.

 

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In addition to his work for municipal financial departments, he has also worked as a change manager, assisting three municipalities in setting up a shared service center. In one municipality he was in charge of carrying out an Article 12 procedure, where every part of the budget is scrutinized to see where cuts can be made, and he was able to translate this knowledge to help another municipality avoid going through the same process.

One of his biggest jobs to date was in the Amsterdam district of Osdorp, where he worked as interim manager for four years with an annual budget of more than 100 million euros, and was responsible for the city’s rehabilitation initiative.

When Amsterdam was reducing the number of districts in the city from 14 to 7, he was in charge of restructuring and merging the finance departments of three former districts into the new district of Nieuw West. In that position he was responsible for coaching the persons that were coming to work in the newly created district.

Throughout his career in The Netherlands, Mr. Versteegen was closely involved in producing Year Reports and dealing with policy areas for the municipalities and this was one of the main tasks for which he was chosen to come to the island.

Commissioner of Finance, Bruce Zagers said that that Mr. Versteegen, has been brought in to strengthen the financial organization, and to boost the reporting requirements to the government accountant and the CFT, who have on various occasions pointed that this is one area where the island is lacking in its financial management.

The commissioner also stated that the goals Mr. Versteegen were brought in to achieve are clear: The island must get a positive approval from the accountant on the Year Report, improve internal financial management and strengthen the relationship with external stakeholders such as the CFT.

He will be meeting the members of the CFT next week when he joins the commissioner at the CFT consultations next week in Curacao.