Rebekka Hosken

Rebekka joined Raftelis in 2020 with 16 years of direct service to local governments and 10 years of management consulting experience. As an experienced consultant, Rebekka has led organizational assessments for a broad range of operating departments and offices in cities, counties, universities, and special districts, including community development, public works, police, administration, and city attorney departments. With direct operational experience in municipal administration, public works, and finance departments, Rebekka’s breadth of knowledge makes her skillful in quickly identifying organizational strengths and opportunities, analyzing operations through the creation of process maps and workflows, preparing actionable recommendations for improvement, and communicating findings to a wide variety of audiences. She has consulted for over 125 clients throughout the United States and Canada. Rebekka served as finance director for the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, a contract city north of Los Angeles, responsible for accounts payable, receivable, budget, audit, and payroll. She automated several previously manual operations, including business licensing and payroll processing, coordinated acceptance of credit cards from customers for the first time, and implemented a new financial software system. During her tenure, she identified and successfully obtained a State loan for the financing of the City’s new city hall and played a key leadership role in successfully moving all operations and staff, as well as communicating all financial impacts of the project to management and the City Council. Previously, Rebekka was the budget officer for the City of Simi Valley, California, a full-service community in the Los Angeles region. She prepared the City’s $196 million annual budget and $160 million capital improvement program, as well as the City’s cost allocation plan. She managed the budget and capital projects module training and setup for a comprehensive citywide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation across nine operating departments.