RSM Australia has appointed nine new national promotions, including two new Partners, to in-demand specialist services such as climate and cyber security risk.
This includes new Partner, Catherine Bell, who is joining the national ESG sustainability services team based in RSM’s Perth office. Catherine has extensive experience as a Global Sustainability Advisor both in Australia and overseas.
Riaan Bronkhorst has been promoted to Partner in the Security and Privacy services team based also in Perth.
The second in the cyber security team is the Melbourne appointment of operational resilience practitioner Kaustubh Vazalwar who joins RSM as an Associate Director. Kaustubh was formerly Head of Technology – Enterprise Resilience at Tabcorp.
In addition to ESG and cyber services, RSM says it is also experiencing an increase in the demand for corporate finance services – Stephanie McAuliffe from RSM’s Corporate Finance team has been promoted to Principal in Perth.
RSM’s Perth Office Managing Partner Alasdair Whyte said, “The risks faced by businesses of all sizes are becoming more granular and complex’’.
“Governments, consumers, customers and investors are demanding more information, assurances and disclosures than ever before from companies and business suppliers,’’ he said.
“Whether it’s addressing the growing importance and complexity of ESG considerations in Australia, and globally, or meeting enhanced cyber security obligations if you’re a critical infrastructure owner, or implementing improved systems to protect customer data, no business can operate successfully today
without the support of technical business specialists – the risk of not doing so is too great, for everyone.’’
“Ms Bell is one such specialist who has made climate-related business risk her professional accounting major, saying a ‘business unusual’ approach was needed to respond to the imperatives of energy transition and climate change.”
“These megatrends are ensuing generational and transformational changes to the way we do business, the way we live and the way we work,’’ she said.
“Achieving sustainable businesses and livelihoods is going to require an ‘all hands’ mentality, outside-the-box thinking and an understanding of working together quickly to help solve our collective challenges. It’s no longer business as usual.
“The opportunities the new green economy offer is enormous, particularly as we accelerate the re-design of the economy towards sustainable production and consumption”.
