Establishing Operational Capabilities for Sustainability Reporting

This event is part of the ESG Exchange Initiative which guides and equips organizations to publish assurable sustainability reports meeting the global mandates.

Overview

Mandatory recurring financial and non-financial sustainability reporting for companies around the world is imminent, and guidelines, such as those for JSE listed companies, have already been published. This is wholly new territory for most corporate C-suites and boards and on the front line for this task will be companies’ reporting officers. Most aren’t prepared. As a leader of a listed, private or non-profit company, you have a responsibility to ensure that you and your staff understand and are prepared to meet the impending global sustainability reporting requirements.

Bruce Whitfield hosts this interactive one-hour engagement with an expert panel. Watch the video to obtain an understanding of what operational capabilities are required to publish assurable sustainability reports according to the JSE guidance, emerging international standards, and developing stakeholder requirements.

Intended audience

Directors
C-suite / executives
CFOs, accountants, investment managers and analysts
Assurance providers including audit, risk and compliance
Operational managers including information officers and IT leaders
Stakeholder relationship managers including investor, employee and corporate relations

Questions from the audience and answers from the panellists

Questions and answers will soon be available here.

Panellist profiles

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Michael Parkinson

BSc(Hons), GradDipComp, PFIIA, CIA, CISA, CRMA, CRISC

Michael Parkinson has had a career of over 40 years in Internal Audit, Information Technology and Finance, primarily in the public sector. He has worked for Australian Government, ACT Government, and Northern Territory Government organisations as an employee and a consultant.

He held 3 Chief Audit Executive roles in Australian Government agencies over a period of 15 years. Over 19 years as a Director at a ‘Big 4’ firm, he provided internal audit services to a range of organisations. His career included 5 months advising the Royal Thai Government on establishment of modern Internal Audit capability. He is currently an independent member of a number of Audit Committees.

He is a significant contributor to the theory and practice of Risk Management. In 2001–02 he led a joint IIA–Australia / Standards Australia project to develop a guide on the use of the Risk Management standard in the internal audit process. The resulting document has since been updated to HB 158–2010.

He has served on the Standards Australia OB–007 Risk Management Committee for 8 years and was its chair from 2012 to 2016. This committee is responsible for a range of guidance handbooks for risk management. Michael was an Australian delegate to ISO committee TC 262 which is responsible for ISO 31000.

Michael served as International Vice-President of ISACA for 4 years 1994–2001 and served for 2 years on the IS Auditing Standards Board 1992–1993.

Michael is a Past President (Board Chair) of the IIA–Australia and served on the Board of Directors for 7 years. In that time he served on the IIA–Australia’s Audit Committee for 3 years. He served on the IIA–Global International Internal Auditing Standards Board for six years and was a member of the Task Forces examining the structure of the IIA–Global guidance to the profession – the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF). He served on the IIA–Global International Board for 3 years, with 2 years as a member of the IIA–Global International Executive.

Michael was the 2015 recipient of the ‘Victor Z Brink Award’ for distinguished service to the IIA and recognises Michael’s significant contribution to the profession over a lifetime of service. In 2017, Michael was made a Life Member of the IIA–Australia.