Towards mandatory sustainability reporting in Australia

Alison is the leader of the Accounting & Corporate Reporting team in Deloitte’s Audit and Assurance division. She has over 25 years’ audit and accounting advisory experience in Australia, Hong Kong and South Africa, specialising in the resolution of complex accounting issues. Alison served as a member of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) and has recently completed her six-year term as the deputy chair. She is also a member of the Fair Value and Business Combinations Project Advisory Panels of the AASB. She is also a member of the Deloitte Global Expert Advisory Panel on Leases and the Property Council of Australia’s National Accounting Roundtable. Areas of specialist expertise include leasing and off-balance sheet structures, revenue recognition, impairment of assets, mergers and acquisitions and asset sale transactions.

Annalisa is a Partner in the Climate and Sustainability team of Audit and Assurance. Her role is a catalyst for change in transforming the way our audit and assurance practice is upskilled on this leading client issue. Her role is to support clients on their reporting readiness journey whilst still delivering on her audits. Annalisa does this by combining her passion for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) with 18 years of audit experience locally and in South Africa for 10 of those years. She leads audits of large and medium-sized entities; both listed and private entities part of global multi-national organisations. Her experience spans various industries but with a particular focus on the consumer business; retail, wholesale distribution and services industry. Annalisa has a hands on approach and high regard for high stakeholder engagement. She incubates talent by leading as a role model, teaching and nurturing on quality and technical aspects. She brings an experience of care to her clients that permits them to continually improve their governance and compliance. Internally, Annalisa is the National Leader for Diversity Equity and Inclusion within our Audit & Assurance practice further highlighting her love of social impact matters.

Paul is a partner within the Climate & Sustainability services practice in Risk Advisory. Paul has over 20 years’ experience working with clients across diverse sectors in Australia and the United Kingdom. Paul lead’s Deloitte’s Climate Risk offerings supporting clients to understand the impacts, risks and opportunities arising from climate change. This includes consideration of physical and transition impacts of climate change and the strategic and financial implications in the long term. Paul also has extensive experience in the provision of a wide range of sustainability services to clients including reporting, sustainability strategy, ESG, sustainability reporting and assurance.