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Enter the CFSO, as chief financial officers take on sustainability role

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sasustain - Ms Beh Siew Kim, Chief Financial and Sustainability Officer, Lodging, CapitaLand Investment

Credit: Courtesy of Beh Siew Kim

Ms Beh Siew Kim, Chief Financial and Sustainability Officer (CFSO) of Lodging, CapitaLand Investment. Ms Beh is a rare example of a CFSO.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF BEH SIEW KIM

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SINGAPORE – Ensuring that a company does well and also does good at the same time – this is the task of a newly created C-suite position called the chief financial and sustainability officer (CFSO).

Firms are familiar with the chief financial officer (CFO), the numbers-crunching person who keeps a keen eye on the bottom line. Increasingly, firms have also started appointing a chief sustainability officer (CSO) as the pressure mounts for companies to do some form of reporting or disclosures on their climate impact.

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