For many organisations, ESG has slowly crept up on them with roles and responsibilities often unclear and the collection of data overwhelming. We often hear the cry that no two treasury teams are the same, and it can equally apply to the management of ESG risks.
We heard from two treasurers on how they see their roles as we look at the challenges facing the collection and management of ESG related data. Joining was director from the sustainable finance team at Refinitiv, an LSEG business, shared some insights on how this global financial markets infrastructure and data business looks at data from a number of different lenses.
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Tariq Kazi is Head of Treasury at Optivo, a housing association that owns and manages 45,000 homes for social and affordable rent and low cost home ownership. He is also board member and Finance Committee chair of Stonewater, a 32,000 homes housing association. Tariq brings two decades of private sector experience into his current roles, mostly in the corporate banking sector. The housing association sector looks to the private sector for hints and tips while digitalising its business model.
Joanna Bonnett commenced as Group Treasurer of PageGroup plc in March 2017. PageGroup is a world-leading specialist recruitment consultancy it operates across 36 countries and 8,000 employees.
Prior to joining PageGroup Joanna worked across a range of sectors from engineering and manufacturing to running the Group Treasury function at the Australian Department of Defence. She has extensive experience in global cash and liquidity management, debt and risk management.
Moderator:
Barnabas firmly believes that sustainability will be the defining success factor for the Financial industry in the 21st Century. He is constantly exploring how the combination of data and technology can help to build a more sustainable and circular economy. He published a DuPont Model of Clean Economy, developed the Corporate Emissions Index and built Refinitiv’s Sustainable Finance Certification Material.
He is a permanent contributor to the Refinitiv Sustainability Perspectives Podcast, is a lecturer on the Sustainable Finance Certification Course at the Budapest Institute of Banking, and is a committee member of the Green Frog Corporate Reporting Awards.
Barnabas holds a Bachelors in Marketing & Market Research, a Masters in Financial Accounting and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Econometrics.
Naresh has spent 30 years in a variety of treasury roles spanning industry and advisory firms. At PwC he was the UK Lead for Cash Management and Payments where he helped lead the firm’s work on payments, Brexit, treasury controls, Blockchain, operational resilience and target operating model design and implementation. He won an Innovation award for his proposition around mobile payments. Prior to PwC, Naresh spent almost 20 years in industry across a range of organisations including BP, Heron Property, Cable and Wireless and Fujitsu taking on roles such as analyst, dealer and treasurer.
This webinar, in association with Refinitiv, took place on Thursday 22 April at 12:30 - 13:15 BST.
