Certified ESG Controller
Build the capability to design, validate, and defend ESG data, systems, controls, and disclosures under investor, board, and audit scrutiny.
ESG is being reported. But it is not always trusted.
Most organisations now produce ESG disclosures. Far fewer have the internal capability to defend the data, assumptions, controls, and financial logic behind them.
Build ESG Controller Capability With Practical Tools, Not Theory
This is not a traditional course. It is a structured ESG implementation walkthrough designed to help participants build the systems, templates, controls, and decision logic needed for audit-ready ESG reporting.
What You Walk Away With
Modular implementation pathway aligned to Modules 1–7
ISSB standards, case notes, frameworks, and guided reading materials
ESG data architecture templates and measurement framework structures
COSO-aligned control matrix templates and ESG close cycle calendar
Audit readiness checklist, quizzes, and scenario-based application questions
Guided exercises to map ESG gaps and implementation challenges in your own organisation
From ESG awareness to ESG control capability
ESG Data Architecture
Design ownership, data flows, evidence points, and reporting structures.
Defensible Measurement
Document boundaries, assumptions, methods, and calculation logic.
Internal Controls
Build approval workflows, validation routines, and audit trails.
Financial Integration
Connect ESG risks and metrics to performance, capital, and decisions.
ESG Can No Longer Operate as a Siloed Sustainability Function
The future of ESG is cross-functional. Organisations are increasingly expected to integrate ESG into finance, procurement, operations, governance, risk, internal controls, and decision-making.
The days when sustainability teams alone could manage ESG are rapidly disappearing. Investors, regulators, auditors, lenders, and buyers now expect ESG information to connect directly to operational systems, financial logic, controls, and enterprise decisions.
The Certified ESG Controller programme is designed to help professionals build this broader implementation capability — combining ESG understanding with cross-functional integration, financial thinking, governance structures, and practical execution frameworks.
Why the ESG Controller Role Matters
A brief walkthrough of why ESG is moving beyond sustainability reporting into finance, controls, governance, and enterprise-wide implementation.
Seven modules. One operating capability.
Why ESG is now linked to enterprise value, capital access, assurance, and board accountability.
Data ownership, reporting flows, metric governance, evidence design, and ESG system architecture.
Boundaries, assumptions, estimation hierarchy, Scope 1–3 measurement, and methodology documentation.
Preventive and detective controls, COSO logic, review workflows, sign-offs, and evidence packs.
ESG reporting cadence, close processes, variance checks, approvals, and disclosure coordination.
Connecting ESG to cash flows, risk, capital allocation, valuation, impairment, and management decisions.
Audit file structure, assurance walkthroughs, assertion testing, remediation, and readiness checklists.
Designed for professionals who need ESG to stand up to scrutiny
Led by Dr. Nisha Kohli
Finance and ESG strategy advisor with over 25 years of experience across finance, governance, reporting, ESG integration, and board-level advisory.
This programme is designed around systems, controls, finance integration, and assurance readiness—not generic ESG theory.
Practical, finance-led, and implementation-focused
“This was the first time ESG connected clearly to financial controls and decision-making.”
Senior Finance Manager“The course helped us see why ESG reporting fails when systems and ownership are weak.”
Head of Sustainability“Very practical. It moved beyond disclosure language into evidence, controls, and audit readiness.”
Internal Audit ProfessionalCertified ESG Controller
A hybrid ESG implementation walkthrough combining self-paced learning, live guided sessions, and practical ESG operating tools.