Lara is the leader of Climate Change and Sustainability practice for the Financial Services sector in EY Oceania. She has a wealth of experience including leading the ESG reporting and assurance practice nationally for a large professional services firm in Canada and over 20 years of experience at the second-largest Canadian securities regulator, including 10 years as the Chief Accountant. In the latter role, she’s focused on non-GAAP financial metrics and ESG-related disclosures and their impact on the capital markets.
She has accounting (Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants – FCPA, FCA), finance (Chartered Financial Analyst - CFA) and governance (Institute of Corporate Governors – ICD.d) designations. In addition, Lara spent two terms as a member of the Canadian Accounting Standards Board.
She brings her knowledge and experience from each of these areas, to provide a unique skillset to assist EY clients as they move along their ESG journeys.
How Lara is building a better working world
“I am committed to making the world a better place for future generations. Consistent, comparable, independently verifiable information is vital to making the right decisions for our planet. I use the combination of my experiences in finance, accounting, regulation, governance and ESG to assist clients no matter where they are on their ESG journey to effectively communicate what is material to their stakeholders.”
