Veld Cooper is a Fellow of the Southern African Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) and was a Board member of that Institute.

He is a Member of the Institute of Commercial and Financial Accountants of Southern Africa (CFA) and rendered many years of service to the CFA as a member of Council.

- He is a Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA).
- He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB).
- He is a registered NQF Assessor and Moderator.

He is a member of the Association of Skills Development Facilitators of South Africa (ASDFSA).

He has been appointed a Commissioner of Oaths for the Republic of South Africa.

He served as Vice-Chairman of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Education and Training Committee for several years and was actively involved in developments leading to SAICA's Training Outside Public Practice, or TOPP initiative.

He was an active member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Gauteng Branch Committee.

He has received a national award for services rendered to the Association of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (ABASA).

Veld was a founding member of the Management Board of the Financial Services SETA (FASSET) and served as Chair of FASSET's Skills Planning Committee in its inaugural year, which developed FASSET's highly-commended first Sector Skills Plan, while also serving as a member of its Learnership and Quality Assurance Committees. Veld has remained a member of the Fasset Skills Planning Working Committee.

He was the founding Chair of the Standards Generating Body (SGB) for Administration.

He was involved in the various processes leading up to the National Accountancy Consultative Forum (NACF) and the Draft Accountancy Profession Bill.

Veld spent the major portion of his working career with an international mining house where his duties included internal auditing, tax and financial management, strategic planning, staff screening, selection, development and training, the development and management of mentorship programmes and liaison with a broad range of professional bodies and associations.

Veld has since 1996 headed up a Management Consulting firm he founded - Veld Cooper and Associates (Pty) Ltd (VCA) which provides a range of human resource development services such as skills development facilitation; skills audits; employment equity compliance; BEE compliance; training and the design and implementation of mentorship programmes.