Credit Unions Innovate Successfully
Ideas alone won’t ensure your credit union keeps up with financial institutions’ rapidly changing environment. In today’s digital world, accessing the appropriate technology and analytics expertise means being able to execute innovation in a timely and cost-effective way.
MNP’s Credit Union team help you stay successful and competitive with key steps towards making informed choices on change in our whitepaper, Ideas Aren’t Enough: Does your Credit Union Practice Executable Innovation?
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Innovation Starts Here
Learn how your organization can take meaningful steps forward and innovate.
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Confidence
September 18, 2024
Guideline B-15 and climate-related risk: What Canadian lenders need to know
Understanding OSFI Guideline B-15 and climate risk management. Learn how Canadian lenders can navigate climate-related risks and stress-testing frameworks.
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Confidence
July 19, 2024
Decoding AML: Best practices for credit union compliance
As FINTRAC assessments tighten up amid evolving financial crimes, it's critical your credit union has a rock-solid risk assessment framework.
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Agility
June 20, 2024
Why your credit union can’t afford to ignore scenario planning
In today’s era of business, credit unions need scenario planning to anticipate and respond to future risks and opportunities.
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Annette Bester CPA, CA, CIA, ICD.D
Partner, National Credit Union Leader
Annette Bester, CPA, CA, CIA, ICD.D is MNP’s National Credit Union Leader and an Audit Risk Partner in MNP’s Saskatoon office. A trusted business advisor, Annette draws on more than two decades of experience working with credit unions and business clients, supporting them and helping them strengthen their leadership.
Annette helps provide the vision and strategy steering MNP’s Credit Union Services group — one of Canada’s largest — to provide accounting, tax and advisory services to more than 135 Canadian credit unions.
Annette provides expert advice on technical accounting and business issues, helping ensure clients’ financials remain strong and compliant with reporting requirements.
She has provided audit, review and business consulting services to owner managed businesses in diverse industries. Annette’s experience has led to her exceptional understanding of credit unions and the members they serve. To further support the credit union sector, she works closely with national and provincial credit union organizations with a vision to support and strengthen credit union leadership, knowledge and financial position, significantly enriching the communities in which we both live and work.
Annette obtained her Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honours) from the University of Saskatchewan in 1999. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CA) in 2002. She completed her Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) designation in December of 2020. In addition, she completed the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program in May 2021 and received her ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors in June 2021.
As a past board member (July 2018 – August 2020) of Saskatchewan Capital Network, Annette worked to enhance Saskatchewan’s start-up ecosystem by connecting investment ready companies to investors. As a board member of Conexus Credit Union (since 2020) and the Chair of their Risk Committee (since 2021) Annette is passionate about improving the financial well-being of their members and communities.