Maria Teo

Director, Risk Advisory
Sustainability & Climate Change

Overview

Professional Experience

Maria leads the Sustainability and Climate Change team within the firm’s Risk Advisory practice, supporting companies in a wide range of sustainability advisory and reporting areas as well as the design, review, and enhancement of governance, risk and internal controls. She also has extensive experience in advisory areas including data governance, data analytics and visualisation and forensic accounting.

Maria has more than fifteen years of experience in assurance, compliance and other advisory work. During her career, she has been deployed across various business units, including Assurance and Advisory services, and spent several months on secondment to the UK. Across the CLA Global network, she also participates actively in the Sustainability, AI and Global Mobility committees to develop and enhance the capabilities of talent across the network.

Maria currently serves as the Chairperson of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)’s Young Professionals Advisory Committee and the Global Talent Programme Taskforce, and sits on the Sustainability and Climate Change Committee. She has also participated in mentoring programmes under ISCA Cares and the Young Professionals Advisory Committee, and advocates for the improvement of professional development programmes such as the Sustainability Reporting Professional certification and Financial Forensic Accounting qualification.

Credentials

  • Bachelor of Business Administration (Accountancy), National University of Singapore
  • Fellow Chartered Accountant (Singapore)
  • Chairperson of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (“ISCA”)’s Young Professionals Advisory Committee and the Global Talent Programme Taskforce
  • Member of the Sustainability and Climate Change Committee of ISCA
  • Certified Internal Auditor, Institute of Internal Auditors (“IIA”)
  • Certified Fraud Examiner, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“ACFE”)
  • Certified International Privacy Practitioner (Asia) (“CIPP/A”)
  • Certified International Privacy Manager (“CIPM”)

 

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