Expert Sustainability Advisory Services | ESG Compliance & Reporting

Your Sustainability Journey Partner

About Us

We are a boutique firm focused in providing sustainability related advisory services from holding your hand in your sustainability journey to sustainability reporting, compliance reviews as well as gap analysis services for companies. We are made up of a team of professionals who are not only passionate about sustainability matters, but also highly experienced and qualified with proven track records.

With the rapidly evolving Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) landscape, we aim to provide our clients with tailored solutions that are catered to each individual clients’ specific business needs, as we believe that there is no such thing as a one size fits all solution!

Vision

To be the leading ESG specialist in the market, and to play a significant part in transitioning businesses toward a more sustainable future.

Mission

To empower Malaysian companies in transitioning into a low-carbon economy in order to be competitive in the global market, whilst maintaining positive relationships by providing meaningful and personalised services to our clients.

Peter Ho Kok Wai
ICAEW, MIA, MICPA

Experienced Non Executive Director with a long demonstrated history of working in the audit industry. Strong accounting technical professional, skilled in Governance, Risk and Internal Controls, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Strategic Planning, Accounting and People Management.

After many years as an Independent non-executive Director in various PLCs chairing Audit and Risk Committees, a new interesting area of focus has emerged. Sustainability. Interpreting and ensuring compliance with ever changing, ever more demanding disclosure requirements, be it from regulators or more often, from customers and stakeholders; has posed challenges to most of our companies.

But for those who understand the real future of ESG, it’s much more fundamental. Companies must learn to embrace and incorporate all the various aspects of ESG into every part of risk assessments and therefore Corporate decision making. An interesting journey and one that has just begun. Don’t be slow though, its moving fast!

Joslyn Ho Le Ning
BCom, MSDM

Joslyn has a Master in Sustainable Development Management from Sunway University, and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from University of South Australia. For her Masters’ final research paper, Joslyn had focused on the readiness of Malaysian listed manufacturing companies in adopting the International Sustainability Standards Board (“ISSB”) standards. The paper focuses on gap analysis of company’s reporting practices on the three converging standards and recommendations from Integrated Reporting (“IR”), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (“SASB”) and Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (“TCFD”). She is currently pursuing the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Credential, a certification issued by the IFRS Foundation.

She has experiences in :

Statutory Audit for companies in manufacturing, FMCG, engineering, Oil & Gas; and
Management Consulting experience on study of management operation’s effectiveness and efficiency, financial feasibility studies and modelling for various investments and/or mergers and acquisition (“M&A”) opportunities, Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) journey for Hong Kong GEM Market, and takeover exercise of a listed company in Malaysia.

Her current sustainability advisory portfolio includes:

Drafting of implementation plan in accordance to Bank Negara Malaysia’s Climate Risk Management and Scenario Analysis (“BNM CRMSA”) for a Takaful Operator;
Hand holding client through the entire process of creating the sustainability infrastructure for the company;
Performing Gap Analysis for Sustainability Reporting of a listed company on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia, ensuring compliance with the Main Market Listing Requirements (“MMLR”), in accordance with the latest issued Bursa Malaysia Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (3rd Edition);
Performing Gap Analysis for Sustainability Reporting in accordance with TCFD;
Performing Gap Analysis for Sustainability Requirements in accordance with requirements prescribed by other stakeholders such as EU customers’ requirements for their suppliers;
Drafting of Sustainability Roadmap for company’s sustainability journey;
Sustainability Reporting in accordance with the latest Bursa Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (3rd Edition); and
Regional sustainability initiatives project manager for a multinational digital shopping platform based in Singapore, tasked with the development of sustainability knowledge contents targeted for SMEs and internal staff training modules.

Our Services

Performing comprehensive gap analysis on current reporting practices.

Tailoring a suitable sustainability roadmap.

Sustainability reporting for reporting purposes.

Identifying and addressing company and industry specific sustainability matters.

Reviewing of sustainability initiatives, policies and procedures

Sustainability related reporting preparations for IPOs

Environmental, Social, and Governance Training

Creating ESG contents for online e-training module

Performing comprehensive gap analysis on current reporting practices.

Reviewing of sustainability initiatives, policies and procedures

Tailoring a suitable sustainability roadmap.

Sustainability related reporting preparations for IPOs

Sustainability reporting for reporting purposes.

Environmental, Social, and Governance Training

Identifying and addressing company and industry specific sustainability matters.

Creating ESG contents for online e-training module

Case Studies

Gap Assessment for Sustainability Reporting

To address deficiencies in reporting, PHA performed a gap assessment on the Company’s existing reporting practices against the prescribed requirements by Bursa Malaysia. With the gap assessment, PHA has also provided improvement recommendations for the Company to adopt, via showing industry examples. Along the way, the Company adopts best practices, such as forming a Sustainability Working Group (“SWG”) to effectively address several operational level voids such as data gathering for its sustainability indicators, to policy writing and adoption by the Company.

Sustainability Roadmap

Sustainability Reporting

Based on the listing requirements as issued by Bursa Malaysia, PHA was approached by the client to draft the Sustainability Statement for the Company’s Annual Report. The drafted Sustainability Statement format is written in accordance with the listing requirements and the Bursa Malaysia Sustainability Reporting Guide (3rd Edition).

Sustainability Training

PHA has conducted half day trainings for the client’s Board of Directors as well as the Management Teams i.e. Assistant Managers and above staff members of the client. The objective of this training is to align the Board and Senior Management of the Company on their ESG knowledge as well as their obligations for sustainability reporting.

What is Sustainability?

It’s more than just a buzz word or a talk of the world. It is a call to action! However, before we act on it, we need to be able to define what is sustainability. So, what is sustainability? According to the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable development is “… development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” In simple terms, we need to ensure that we are not over-using resources that are available to us now, to the point where there are none left for the future!

With the array of new regulations, standards and everything else that is evolving together in this vast space of sustainability, as a company you should be focusing on your Economic, Environmental, Social and Governance (“EESG”) matters that are material to your company. There is no one size fits all solution for sustainability.

Let us help you on your journey in uncovering what are the material sustainability issues that your company may face.