Finance-led. AI-augmented. Independent of the audit firms.
We are not a generalist sustainability practice. We are not a software vendor. We are not an ESG consultancy. We are a finance-led transformation business that uses agentic AI to deliver compliance outcomes.
Built by a CFO who has sat in the seat.
AASB S2 is a financial reporting standard. The disclosures sit in the same annual report as the financial statements. They are signed by the same directors. They are audited by the same firm. They are reviewed by the same regulator. Treating climate disclosure as a sustainability project — and not as a finance and governance project — is the single most common reason first reports fail assurance. Paula Kensington was a CFO before she advised them. Every regulatory judgement call, every board paper, every auditor conversation in an Authentyx engagement is led by someone who has held the pen.
Paula Kensington
Co-CEO, Authentyx
Award-winning former CFO. Advisor to CFOs and audit committees across ASX-listed, government-owned, and large private organisations. TCFD-aligned disclosure preparation across Australian and New Zealand reporters before AASB S2 was mandatory.
"AASB S2 compliance your CFO can defend to ASIC."
Audit-defensible output. Built for AASB-S2.
Engineered for scale. Delivered with judgement. Embedded alongside your team.
Our platform accelerates the process by handling the data-heavy elements of climate disclosure — diagnostics, mapping, scenario structuring, and report assembly.
Our advisors focus where it matters most — applying regulatory, financial, and governance judgement to ensure outputs are credible, defensible, and aligned to AASB S2.
We work alongside your teams to operationalise the model — embedding processes, transferring knowledge, and building internal capability so your organisation can sustain and evolve its disclosures over time.
Built for assurance — from day one.
Authentyx ensures your climate reporting is structured, evidenced, and defensible from the outset — so it stands up under assurance today and continues to hold as expectations move toward reasonable assurance in the years ahead.
- Auditor engaged from Phase 2 — not the week before lodgement
- Every deliverable mapped to the AASB S2 paragraph that anchors it
- Documentation structured to mirror the evidence requirements under ASSA 5000
We steer. We train. We review. We unblock. The client team carries the work forward.
The most common consulting failure pattern in climate compliance is the consultant who writes the report and walks away with no transfer of capability. By Year 2 the client is back at the start. Authentyx is not set up that way. Phase 2 is built around the steering consultant model paired with mandated climate training, sized to your team. By Year 2, your finance team is leading the work — with Authentyx as the adviser, not the other way around.
Authentyx delivers, client team observes and learns alongside.
Client team co-delivers. Authentyx steers, reviews, unblocks.
Client team owns the work. Authentyx is the trusted advisor for the regulatory-judgement calls and the auditor relationship.
A 30-minute conversation with someone who has sat in the CFO's chair.
Paula Kensington leads every executive briefing. The call is a regulatory reality check, not a sales pitch. You leave with a clear understanding of your obligations, your exposure, and what your first 60 days should look like. If we are not a fit, she will tell you that too.
Or email paula.kensington@authentyx.com.au directly.