Prepare for your CSRD assurance with a gap analysis or training.
- Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance -
Readiness Services - Gap Analysis
- Practice Session
- Management Training
- Board and Audit Commitee Support
Sustainability report assurance is new for most companies.
Prepare with Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance - Readiness Services in advance, even if we are not your assurance provider!
For most companies, CSRD, IFRS, or TCFD sustainability report assurance is new and not something they have experienced before. Our Speeki Guardian™ | Readiness Services are a group of services available to all companies as they begin their journey with assurance of their sustainability reports.
If you are using the Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance solution, that's great. If you are using another solution for your assurance, you can also use the Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance | Readiness Services.
Assess and check your sustainability reporting system for gaps with Speeki
The Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance - Gap Analysis is ideal for organisations considering having their sustainability reporting assured but needing confirmation regarding the readiness of their existing controls and processes that feed into their ESG report. This valuable assessment will highlight potential problem areas that require further development before undergoing an audit and assurance project, whether by Speeki or another provider.
It consists of an interactive workshop and gap analysis exercise designed to objectively assess how your organisation's sustainability reporting system measures up against the requirements of the relevant standard you are following (e.g., ESRS, CSRD, IFRS S1 and S2, TCFD, etc.).
Speeki experts will guide you through each requirement to evaluate what you have in place and ensure that you are ready. Following the workshop, you will receive a scorecard and report outlining how your existing reporting aligns with the relevant standard.
Is your reporting system up to the standard?
Objective benchmarking
You will receive an unbiased benchmarking of your organisation’s sustainability reporting system.
Assurance preparation
The scoring of each requirement helps your organisation prepare for an assurance audit, highlighting areas that need further attention.
Further system development
You will be able to use our report as an input to prepare a plan for further development of your reporting system.
Process
Begin with an interactive workshop that introduces the relevant standard requirements, its value, and the assurance process.
Participate in a face-to-face question session led by Speeki experts to help you learn about existing reporting initiatives, processes, and documentation.
Understand where your current reporting system stands with a quantitative assessment that evaluates how your organisation measures up against each relevant standard requirement.
Receive an overall evaluation presentation within two weeks after the end of the workshop, reporting the gaps and areas for improvement for your management team’s review and action.
Results
At the end of the Readiness Assessment seminar, the percentage of deployment is automatically transformed into a graphic indicating the level of achievement of the system. A written report follows two weeks later.
How it works remotely
The remote workshop will follow the general methodology of the in-person session. It will begin with the reporting team and be followed by representatives from relevant departments. It is recommended, at a minimum, that representatives from management attend the presentation of results.
Building confidence - a practice session is highly valuable
The Practice session is like a mock assurance and determines your organization's readiness for your sustainability reporting system assurance. This is applicable if you are not being assured by Speeki as part of our Speeki Guardian™ solution.
Your practice session looks like the following:
Evaluate your sustainability reporting system according to ESRS, CSRD, IFRS, TCFD or whatever standard you are following
Obtain a thorough understanding of your sustainability reporting system's strengths and weaknesses. A fully-qualified expert assesses your system comprehensively and provides you with detailed information.
Optimise Assurance success
Enter an assurance scenario without the pressure of potentially struggling through the assurance process, and let our experts pinpoint any key areas that require further development or improvement.
Build sustainability reporting capability and accuracy into the fabric of your business
Demonstrate to stakeholders through a Practice Session that you have created an organizational culture where sustainability reporting accuracy and completeness is a fundamental part of doing business.
Process
Complete an application questionnaire
We obtain a better idea of your organisation, goals for sustainability reporting, business model, and details of the standards that you are meeting for reporting.
Identify and select sites or areas
We base this on your organisation’s size, industry, risks, current reporting initiatives and assurance requirements.
Attend a kick-off meeting
We ensure alignment on context and help you to establish a personalised audit programme.
Participate in an interview
Our expert visits your site, conducts interviews with staff identified in the audit plan, analyses your processes and practices, considers all your current reporting on those areas and presents their findings.
Understand all aspects of the reporting standard’s requirements whether CSRD, ESRS, IFRS, TCFD or others
You gain a thorough understanding of how ready you are to kick off the reporting assurance project.
Receive a detailed report
We detail all the findings and identify strengths and weaknesses in your ESG reporting system.
Get your entire team on board with your sustainability reporting and your assurance projects.
Start preparing yourself and your extended teams by attending one of our training sessions, which are held for companies looking to embark with Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance.
Quick glance at our custom training options
Taking place over a three-day period, our corporate training will thoroughly showcase the relevant standard's framework and apply it to your company. This knowledge can then be utilised to effectively build and participate in the establishment of your reporting system. It is perfect for all levels and all types of participants, and should be a prerequisite for any company about to participate in Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance projects.
Your board has oversight of Sustainability reporting. Are they aligned?
If you are struggling to explain the business value of Speeki Guardian™ and independent assurance to your board or audit committee, consider our Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance - Board and Audit Commitee Support.
Before embarking on Speeki Guardian™, it is important that you and your board and audit commitee understand the standard’s requirements and the business value of assurance. Through the Speeki Guardian™ | Sustainability Report Assurance - Board and Audit Commitee Support, our experts meet with your board and committees to discuss assurance project, ownership, responsibility, accountability, and oversight models for governance.
Relay the oversight and governance model for sustainability report assurance
Gain a detailed understanding of the relevant Standard (e.g. ESRS, CSRD, IFRS, TCFD etc.)
Obtain a comprehensive understanding of the Standard and the steps needed for assurance.
Recognise and explain the business value and how oversight should be managed
Learn to appreciate and articulate the governance and oversight of sustainability reporting and assurance.
Demonstrate their knowledge of oversight and assurance responsibilities
Update the board and audit committees on sustainability reporting oversight and assurance through guidance from our experts.