This month we celebrated International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion, we feature Roianne Nedd FCCA, the global director of inclusion, diversity and belonging at Oliver Wyman, the international consultancy. Although her feet are now firmly planted in the UK, she was born in Guyana, and spent a good deal of her childhood crisscrossing the Atlantic until settling into a role in the UK government’s Ministry of Justice.
Nedd has used her ACCA training to great effect. ‘In performance management, it is important to use numbers to tell a story, and to use data to justify the things that seem amorphous and unquantifiable,’ she says. ‘It is, if you like, one of my superpowers to find ways to quantify the unquantifiable.’
Meanwhile, European CFOs may have escaped an energy crisis, but the interest rate bullet will be harder to dodge. Fears of a recession, mild or otherwise, continue to blow a cold wind through the corridors of financial power.
We also hear from the head of Chile’s Financial Market Commission, which is making the use of international sustainable reporting standards a central plank in its bid to attract overseas investment. It is a policy that other emerging market jurisdictions could well follow. Bernardita Piedrabuena Keymer’s comments come in the wake of February’s ISSB symposium in Montreal.
We return to the US to investigate the mystery of the jobs market in the world’s largest economy, which is currently recording its lowest unemployment rate since the country first put a man on the moon. Despite the Fed’s aggressive policy of monetary tightening, labour costs continue to ratchet up, as indeed does consumer spending, posing another interest rate threat for CFOs. Where will all this end? Perhaps a hard landing, but not on the moon.
Finally, this month AB has published a special edition focusing on big tech. Readers can earn free CPD units while learning about some of the latest developments in AI, climate tech, cybersecurity, audit technology, cryptos, NFTs and more.
