Allison is a Managing Director with CBIZ Stinnett and has over 23 years of internal audit, public accounting, finance and technical accounting experience. For the past 15 years, Allison has focused on establishing Internal Audit functions and implementing first-year Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts for a variety of clients. She also has extensive experience with acquisition due diligence procedures as well as working capital audits.
Allison’s experience includes working closely with Executive Management teams, Audit Committees and Corporate Boards in a General Auditor role and establishing Internal Audit functions in new publicly traded organizations. While directing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts, Allison consistently establishes good working relationships with public accounting firms to maximize reliance while developing efficient compliance efforts.
Prior to joining CBIZ Stinnett, Allison was the Director of Internal Audit and Compliance for SemGroup Energy Partners and their Master Limited Partnership, BlueKnight Energy, where she was responsible for establishing core accounting and governance policies and the control environment for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Allison continued working with SemGroup LP after joining Stinnett in 2009 to ready the company for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance after bankruptcy emergence. She also held numerous accounting and finance positions within ConocoPhillips, a multi-billion dollar publicly traded international energy company, including Director of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Senior Technical Accounting Consultant and Upstream Executive Reporting Analyst. She also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she specialized primarily in manufacturing and distribution public companies.