PSAA - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Independent Audit Committee Member

Job Titles:

• Senior Quality Manager

Andrew is Senior Quality Manager and is responsible for overseeing the work of PSAA's appointed auditors; managing all PSAA's audit quality monitoring arrangements, including appointment compliance. Andrew is a qualified FCA. He joined PSAA in June 2016 after a 25 year career in local audit with District Audit and KPMG. Having managed a range of external and internal public sector clients, he brings a wide knowledge and understanding of audit quality arrangements to this role.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Member of the Board

Keith joined the PSAA Board in December 2017. Keith was first elected to Eastleigh Borough Council in 1991 and has been Council Leader since 1994. Keith is also a county councillor, having been elected to Hampshire County Council in 2005, and is a member of Hedge End Town Council and Bursledon Parish Council. He served three terms on the board of Homes England, is a director of the Housing and Finance Institute Ltd (not for profit), is an Honorary Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and is Deputy Chair of the Local Government Association's Resources Board.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Member of the Board
• Chief Executive Officer of the Promise Scotland
• Director of PABV

Fraser joined the PSAA Board in March 2022. Fraser is the Chief Executive Officer of The Promise Scotland and sits on the Board of Directors. He spent 16 years working for Audit Scotland, including ten years as Controller of Audit and Director of Performance Audit and Best Value (PABV). As Controller of Audit (CoA), Fraser reported to the Accounts Commission on all matters relating to the audit of local authorities in Scotland. In his ten years as CoA, he produced over 60 Best Value audit reports across all local authorities, alongside many other statutory reports. As Director of PABV, Fraser was responsible for performance audit across all sectors of public services in Scotland. This work focused on governance, financial sustainability, outcomes and value for money. Before joining Audit Scotland, Fraser was a public services consultant with Eglinton in Edinburgh and KPMG in London. He specialised in leadership, change management, facilitation and process improvement. From October 2021 to January 2023, Fraser was a member of the Independent Oversight and Assurance Group for Mental Health Services in Tayside. Fraser holds a Postgraduate Diploma (with Distinction) in Strategic Leadership from Warwick Business School, and a degree in Industrial Relations from the University of Strathclyde. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Job Titles:

• Director of the Housing

Job Titles:

• Chief Procurement and Business Management Officer

Julie is Chief Procurement and Business Management Officer and is responsible for leading and managing all aspects of PSAA's procurement projects and general business management activities such as IT, legal and communications and media. Julie is a qualified programme, project, and procurement lead. She originally worked with PSAA from September 2016 to March 2018 to manage the projects to establish the appointing person arrangements and implement a CRM system. She re-joined PSAA in March 2020 in this newly created role. Her career has been mostly in local government, and spans IT, procurement, project and programme management so she brings a broad knowledge and understanding of managing operational and project delivery to this role.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of the Audit Committee
• Director
• Member of the Board
• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland

Marta joined the PSAA Board in April 2021 and became Chair of PSAA's Audit Committee in April 2022. Marta is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. She has over 40 years of finance experience and significant experience of the public sector, having been a civil servant since 1993, and a senior civil servant from 2000 until 2013. Her last appointment was as the Chief Executive of the Pensions Advisory Service (2010 - 2013) having previously held the positions of Director of Compliance, and Director of Compliance and Resources at the National Lottery Commission from 1999 to 2010. Prior to this she was Head of Finance, European Social Fund at the Department for Education and Skills from 1993 to 1999. Over recent years Marta has developed a portfolio career and brings non-executive board experience to a number of organisations, including the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster, the London Fire Brigade and MOPAC / Metropolitan Police Service. More recently she chairs the London Fire Brigade's Audit Committee and that of the Non-Ministerial Department for the State of Jersey. She is also a Council Member for the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a Court Member of Heriot Watt University and has several other commitments in the higher education sector. Marta read BA (Hons) Economics and Accounting and MSc Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She was awarded an OBE in the 2006 New Year's Honours List.

MHA MacIntyre Hudson are our appointed external auditors for the audit of accounts for 2022/23 to 2024/25, with an option to extend for up to three years.

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Chief Finance Officer
• Director
• Member of the Board
• Non Executive Director

Mike joined the PSAA Board in April 2022. Mike is an experienced Chief Executive Officer, Chief Finance Officer and Non Executive Director (NED) with interests in public finance, housing, pensions and investments. He is now focused on a portfolio of NED and advisory roles. Alongside his role at PSAA, he is also a Board member of Local Pensions Partnership Administration and a NED and Senior Advisor UK for XTP, a specialist consultant supporting asset owners on transparency, cost and risk. Mike was previously the Chief Executive Officer and a Board member of London CIV Ltd. which he joined in March 2019. London CIV is the pension pool for the London boroughs and the City of London. Prior to that he spent over 15 years as a local government finance and corporate services director, having spent 13 years at the London Borough of Camden and, more latterly, undertaking interim finance director roles at Birmingham City Council and the London Borough of Newham. Mike is a former President of the Society of London Treasurers and a former Chair of the London Finance Advisory Committee. He is also a former NED and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the London Pension Fund Authority and was previously an Associate Director for Local Government for the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.

Job Titles:

• Chief Financial Officer

Sandy is the Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for leading on the financial management of the audit contracts and on PSAA's corporate finance. She also leads on corporate risk management and setting audit fees and is involved in the appointment of auditors. Sandy trained with Deloitte and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1995. She worked as a finance manager at a start-up organisation, a large wholesale telecommunication company, to set up its finance department and after 2 years moved on to work at the BBC managing the finances of Newsnight and Breakfast TV. Sandy worked for the Audit Commission from 2001 to 2015, starting as a finance manager in the London region of the audit practice, and subsequently promoted to business partner and senior contracts manager.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Chairman of the Board

Steve's career has taken in senior roles in three large local authorities, a period in management consultancy with Coopers and Lybrand, and a lengthy tenure (2000-2013) as the Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy. He has a particular interest in public financial management and has served on or advised a number of prominent inquiries focusing on local government finance. He was a member of the Balance of Funding Steering Group, chaired by Nick Raynsford MP, which reported in 2004, and an adviser to Sir Michael Lyons' Inquiry into the future role, function and funding of local government, ‘Place-shaping: a shared ambition for the future of local government', which reported in March 2007. He was also a member of the London Finance Commission, chaired by Prof Tony Travers, which published its report ‘Raising the Capital' in May 2013. Over the years Steve has also held a number of non-executive/advisory roles. Of particular relevance to his position as Chairman of PSAA are his role as Non-Executive Director of the National Audit Office (2005-09), his trusteeship of the Centre for Public Scrutiny (2004-13), and his membership of HM Treasury Whole of Government Accounts Assurance Committee (2010-13).

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive

Tony Crawley is the Chief Executive and is responsible for running the not-for-profit company. PSAA's main role from 2018/19 onwards is as the appointing person for opted-in local government bodies, and Tony leads the work to ensure that appointed auditors comply with their responsibilities under their audit services contracts. In addition, he leads on the work to complete the delivery of PSAA's statutory functions in relation to pre 2018/19 responsibilities. Tony qualified as a chartered public accountant in 1994. He worked for District Audit, the delivery arm of the Audit Commission, from 1990 to 2012, and in that time worked on secondment to CIPFA, the Audit Commission and the National Fraud Initiative. He became a District Auditor in the East Midlands in 2009, and transferred to KPMG LLP in 2012 where he was a Director specialising in local government and NHS external audits. He joined PSAA in October 2018, and is the Past President of CIPFA in the Midlands.