Course Details

Sustainability and climate reporting are no longer separate from financial reporting, they are beginning to influence key judgements, disclosures, and audit scrutiny.


In many organisations, sustainability disclosures are evolving faster than the financial statements that should support them, creating a growing risk of inconsistency and challenge.


For finance teams, the issue is no longer understanding frameworks, but determining where sustainability-related assumptions should already be reflected in the numbers, and whether those positions can withstand internal and external scrutiny.

This session focuses on the practical implications for 2026, not just what needs to be disclosed, but how finance teams can integrate sustainability and climate considerations into financial reporting, governance, and existing finance processes in a proportionate, evidence-based way.

 

In this session Jose Antonio Hopkins will cover the following topics: 

  • Where climate and sustainability assumptions impact financial statements (impairment, provisions, useful lives, going concern) 
  • What auditors are starting to challenge — and where finance teams are currently exposed 
  • How to build audit-ready documentation: linking data, assumptions, and financial outputs 
  • How to translate UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS S1 & S2) into financial assumptions, estimates, and disclosures 
  • Why organisations struggle: the disconnect between sustainability disclosures and finance ownership 

 

By attending this session, you will: 

  • Be able to identify where sustainability risks should be reflected in your financial statements 
  • Understand the key areas auditors are likely to challenge in 2026 
  • Recognise gaps between sustainability disclosures and financial reporting 
  • Be able to assess whether your current approach would withstand internal or external scrutiny 
  • Be able to take initial steps to embed sustainability considerations into finance processes and reporting cycles 

 

This session will be most relevant to: 

  • Finance Directors and CFOs 
  • Financial Controllers and reporting teams 
  • Auditors and internal audit professionals 
  • Risk and compliance professionals 
  • Sustainability professionals working closely with finance 

 

Course level: Need to know

CPD Course Speaker

Sustainability Consultant at Acclaro

Jose Hopkins

Jose Hopkins ACA is a Chartered Accountant with 16 years of international experience across external audit, IFRS financial reporting, climate risk, sustainability reporting and assurance. He began his career with KPMG Chile, working on Minera Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, before spending eight years with KPMG London managing complex global group audits and progressing to Senior Manager. He later joined a specialist KPMG team developing TCFD and climate-risk audit methodology and reviewing FCA TCFD-aligned reporting across listed companies.

Jose subsequently became Sustainability & ESG Technical Director at MHA/Baker Tilly, where he helped integrate sustainability and climate capability, methodology and processes across audit, assurance and advisory.

Today at Acclaro Advisory, he leads the sustainability assurance service line and supports organisations in building, reviewing and assuring the data, controls and reporting behind GHG inventories, CDP reporting, climate risk management and wider sustainability disclosures.

His experience spans mining and metals, chemicals and agribusiness, financial services, public sector, transport and mobility, facilities management, technology and data centres, and professional services. He works across frameworks and standards including TCFD, UK SRS, ISSB, GHG Protocol, ISO 14001/50001, ISAE 3410/3000, ISSA 5000, GRI, IFRS and FRS 102, with systems experience including SAP/1SAP, Hyperion, Position Green, Watershed and Carbon Alt Delete.

Jose is also an experienced CPD trainer, former postgraduate lecturer at the University of West London, and has spoken at ExCeL London and the House of Lords.