James Pratt is a Director of CELL Consulting and is a qualified ACA Chartered Accountant. He provides finance related management consultancy services primarily to the health, local government and central government sectors.

Prior to establishing CELL Consulting Limited in 2011, James spent 15 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers first as an auditor then as a management consultant.

James principal areas of expertise are the use of rigorous financial analysis and modelling techniques and strategic advice to enable transformational change in large organisations and across organisation boundaries. He also specialises in providing of advice, tools, methods and skills-transfer to clients to equip them to embed those techniques in their organisations.

James recent project work includes working with local authorities, health commissioners, providers and their partners around the localism and early intervention agenda. This includes advising on both the strategic financial aspects of service transformation and the undertaking of rigorous modelling and evaluation of a range of service reviews and their implementations.

In particular James has worked extensively with local government and their local partner organisations on the mapping of spending on priority themes. Recent work also includes support to Neighbourhood Community Budget Pilots, Whole Place Community Budgets and Troubled Families policy implementation support as well as more recently City Deal and TIF funding strategies.