Rachel Wainwright-van Kessel is a CPA, CMA with 16 years of municipal finance experience including 10 years York Region and the most recent six years as the Director, Finance and Treasurer for the Town of Aurora. Rachel has led a number of transformative changes in municipal finance including procurement modernization of the bylaw and processes, implementation of multi-year budgeting, redesign of financial reporting, development of Aurora’s Fiscal Strategy, enhancing and developing new financial policies, leading Aurora’s move to prudent investor regime with ONE JIB, streamlining existing financial processes and implementations of financial and budget systems.