Who is Zandy Bautista and what is their role at Northmore Gordon?

Zandy Bautista is a member of Northmore Gordon working in Audit & Compliance. This role is integral to our operations, where audit and compliance functions ensure that energy assessments, carbon advisory work and environmental certificate projects meet applicable standards and regulatory requirements. Within our service delivery framework, audit and compliance staff contribute to quality assurance across the assessment, case-building, value-capture and implementation stages of client projects.

What are the key responsibilities of the Audit & Compliance function at Northmore Gordon?

Audit and compliance responsibilities at Northmore Gordon centre on ensuring that project work meets quality standards and applicable regulatory requirements. This includes verifying that energy audits meet scope specifications, that measurement and verification calculations are reproducible and defensible, and that environmental certificate applications satisfy scheme eligibility and evidence requirements. The function also ensures that client engagements are properly scoped, deliverables are clearly defined and that exclusions and evidence gaps are transparently documented before work commences.

How does Audit & Compliance support Northmore Gordon's energy optimisation projects?

In energy optimisation work, audit and compliance ensures that energy audits are conducted to the appropriate type level and that opportunity registers clearly state each measure's boundary, assumptions, evidence quality and next decision. The function verifies that measurement and verification briefs contain reproducible calculation methods and that baselines reflect representative pre-project conditions. It also ensures that investment cases distinguish energy savings from tariff benefits and certificate proceeds, and that any funding assumptions are separately tracked as committed or conditional support.

What role does Audit & Compliance play in Northmore Gordon's environmental certificate services?

For environmental certificate projects, audit and compliance ensures that project eligibility is assessed against the specific scheme requirements—whether ACCU, VEU, NSW ESS or renewable instruments—rather than assuming a technology alone establishes eligibility. The function verifies that project timing is accurately documented, that evidence checklists are agreed before implementation and that prior commitments or prior incentive arrangements are fully disclosed. This prevents projects from proceeding toward ineligible pathways or missing critical timing requirements unique to each scheme.

How does the Audit & Compliance function contribute to Northmore Gordon's carbon advisory services?

In carbon advisory work, audit and compliance ensures that emissions inventories are bounded consistently, that calculation methods are documented and reproducible, and that scope 1, 2 and 3 assignments follow the applicable framework. The function also verifies that carbon diagnostics produce properly prioritised action lists with named owners and decision dates, and that transition pathways distinguish physical reductions from contractual electricity attributes and carbon offsets. It ensures that reporting support work correctly interprets NGER, Safeguard and ASRS applicability rather than assuming one threshold applies across frameworks.

What compliance considerations are important when using Northmore Gordon's moreData platform?

When implementing moreData, audit and compliance helps verify that data sources are validated, that energy and water balance calculations are traceable to underlying meter readings or bills, and that NGER reporting outputs are correctly structured for the reporting organisation's boundary. The function ensures that manually entered data or estimates are clearly distinguished from measured information and that performance indicator calculations use consistent baselines. For planned functionality such as IPMVP-standard M&V or SCADA integration, compliance confirms that modules are available in the deployment before relying on them in project scopes.

How can Zandy Bautista's Audit & Compliance role assist with project scoping clarity?

Audit and compliance contributes to clear project scoping by ensuring that each engagement brief contains defined deliverables, stated exclusions, specific evidence requirements and a clear next decision. The function helps clients and advisers align on measurement boundaries, baseline assumptions and the stage at which interim or final decisions occur. By documenting what is in and out of scope early, and by flagging unresolved dependencies or missing evidence, audit and compliance reduces the risk of misaligned expectations and helps ensure that projects advance only when appropriate information is available.

What is the relationship between Audit & Compliance and Northmore Gordon's six-stage delivery approach?

Our delivery approach spans Assess, Build the Case, Capture Value, Deliver, Procure and Perform. Audit and compliance ensures that transitions between stages are evidenced and that decisions are tracked. At the Assess stage, compliance verifies that audit scopes are proportionate and documented. At Build the Case, it confirms that feasibility studies state their assumptions. At Deliver, it ensures that measurement plans are detailed and baselines are clearly established. The function helps maintain consistency in evidence quality, decision ownership and responsibility throughout the engagement lifecycle.

How does Audit & Compliance support Northmore Gordon's commitment to transparency in case studies and published work?

We publish case studies describing completed engagements, such as the Nomad Coffee audit, Greenham industrial decarbonisation, MainStream Aquaculture heat-pump feasibility and Kalafatis Fresh Produce solar project. Audit and compliance ensures that these published cases clearly distinguish the role we performed, the period of work and the status of outcomes—whether identified opportunities, verified results or operational performance to date. The function helps ensure that case studies provide honest illustrations of the assessment and project-support process without overstating universality or transferability across different sites and circumstances.

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