Simon Allsop B.Com, CPFA

Simon Allsop is a CIPFA qualified accountant and a Senior Consultant with CIPFA. He was previously the joint Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer) for both Derbyshire Police and Fire. He has 30 years of experience working with and in a range of public-sector bodies mainly local government, fire and police. He has extensive experience of audit and advisory work as a former senior manager in KPMG’s public sector audit and advisory team working with the NAO and Audit Commission, including supporting the development of medium term financial strategies, budget and financial management review methodologies and corporate services value for money benchmarking tools. Other past advisory roles have included secondments to Birmingham City Council to provide support on the Council’s Estates Development programme and the Home Office to help review proposals for Police mergers.

Simon leads on CIPFA's financial resilience work and the delivery of our work for DLUHC in supporting financially challenged local authorities and recent reviews of workforce capacity and capability working with the LGA. He is currently supporting a number of authorities to assess their financial resilience and recovery plans and has also undertaken a number of reviews of high debt authorities and local authority companies.