Audit and Risk Committee

The Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) meets four times a year to ensure the RTA operates within an appropriate framework of internal control and risk management, while achieving its objectives and strategies efficiently and effectively.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Regulatory and Assurance Officer (CRAO) report to the ARC.

The committee is a combination of RTA Board members and external advisors that oversee:

the integrity of the financial statements and reports
our accounting policies and practices
the scope, quality and independence of external audit arrangements
the monitoring of the internal audit function
the effectiveness of risk and compliance measures.

The ARC observes the terms of its charter with due regard to Queensland Treasury’s Audit Committee Guidelines.

Lindi Deguara (Advisor)

Lindi Deguara LLB (Hons), BMedia&Comm (Dist), GAICD, FGIA, CertInvRel

Lindi is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and Managing Director of her own advisory, where she uses her versatile skillset to support boards and executives to deliver strategic commercial outcomes and implement sustainable supporting governance and risk management structures.

Lindi is an experienced director, executive and company secretary with over 20 years’ experience in Australia and internationally within construction and general infrastructure, energy, resources, engineering and training sectors. She has had executive multi-disciplinary accountability across various corporate governance and service functions including legal, human resources, communication, social performance, tendering, insurance and company secretariat.

Lindi has previously served as a director of Golden West Apprenticeships Limited, an advisory board member of a healthcare start-up, and a tutor at Queensland University of Technology.

Damian Wright (Advisor)

Damian Wright

Damian is a Chartered accountant and is currently the Partner in Charge of Audit at BDO Brisbane. He is also the current Chair of Lives Lived Well Limited, a not-for-profit operating in the Health Sector.

He has more than 30 years’ experience as a Chartered Accountant across a variety of industries and organisations including the Government Sector.

Some of Damian’s previous roles include:

Director of a large educational organisation in South East Queensland
Former Director of QLeave.

Damian holds the following qualifications and professional memberships:

Bachelor of Commerce, The University of Queensland
Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment, Securities Institute of Australia (now FINSIA)
Registered Company Auditor and Associate, Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.

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