The questions reaching data leadership got harder
The audit committee wants evidence under SOX 302 and BCBS 239, CSRD and ISSB put sustainability figures under the same scrutiny, and the board wants to know whether the company's AI can be trusted.
Meanwhile the board deck and the financial system disagree, and finding out why takes a week of senior people's time. An AI assistant gives a confident figure that matches no report, and the miss lands on data governance.
Every audit cycle rebuilds the history of a definition from email, tickets, and memory. The program depends on the specific people who remember how it works.





