BDO Ireland has appointed Marc Aboud as Sustainability Reporting and Assurance Partner within its Sustainability practice, strengthening the firm’s capability to support clients amid rising regulatory, reporting and assurance requirements across ESG and sustainability.
Aboud brings more than 15 years’ experience across assurance, risk advisory and consulting, having worked closely with executive teams in multinational and domestic organisations. His background spans risk, regulatory and control engagements, as well as sustainability-related work in highly regulated and complex operating environments.
He joins BDO Ireland from a Big Four firm, where he worked across risk advisory, assurance and consulting in Ireland and completed a secondment in the United States. His experience includes ESG strategy and scenario analysis, materiality assessments, sustainability reporting and disclosures, ESG assurance, regulatory gap analysis and sustainable finance, including green bonds. His client portfolio covers financial services, consumer, energy and resources, and technology and media, working with organisations ranging from listed companies to private equity-backed businesses.
Aboud is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and holds a Certificate in Sustainability and Climate Change from the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He has also lectured for the Institute of Bankers and Chartered Accountants Ireland and contributed to media commentary on risk, control and sustainability issues.
Commenting on the appointment, Brian McEnery, Managing Partner at BDO Ireland, said Aboud’s experience across risk, assurance and ESG reporting would enhance the firm’s ability to support clients as sustainability regulation and assurance expectations continue to evolve.
Aboud said businesses are facing increased scrutiny on ESG and sustainability reporting at a time of heightened market uncertainty, and that combining BDO’s sustainability and advisory capabilities with robust reporting and assurance expertise would help organisations strengthen governance, build stakeholder trust and turn sustainability obligations into long-term value.
