Pune, Maharashtra, India
Sustainability Reporting Manager at EY Ex- Investment Stewardship Associate at ISS-ESG, Mumbai | Ex- Data assurance analyst at CRISIL GR&RS, Pune | Ex-Associate project manager in an ESG Research team at SG Analytics, Pune | Proficient in devising a better problem-solving method for challenging tasks, learning new technologies and tools whenever required.
• Manage the implementation of sustainability reporting software, enhancing regulatory compliance for ESG and EHS. • Translate functional requirements into technical specifications, ensuring alignment with business objectives. • Collaborate with industry-leading partners like Enablon and Workiva to digitalization and optimization of sustainability reporting processes. • Lead Agile project management initiatives for improving project delivery timelines.
• As a Manager in Sustainability Managed Services team, I develop and implement processes for ESG reporting, starting from data collection to preparing regulatory compliant disclosure(ISSB, SASB, GRI, TCFD, EU CSRD and US SEC and California climate change regulations). • Understand clients' ESG reporting challenges, gather requirements, create business requirement documents, prototype solutions, and develop custom reports. • Serve as a subject matter expert in pre-sales opportunities, RFPs, quotations, and demos. Understand clients' materiality, identify reportable metrics, and determine data requirements. • Prepare commercials, including ROM efforts, price estimation, and support in drafting Statements of Work (SOW). • As a business operations manager, collaborate with leads to create standard operating procedures and Basis of Prep (BOPs) documents to support clients in their assurance readiness journey. Utilize Agile and Scrum methodologies to ensure successful and timely delivery of value to clients.
• By using the in-depth research, identifying corporate controversies, screening the companies that fail to respect established global norms, and analyzing how they manage the controversies and material risks • Coordinating engagements across the year, and ensuring engagement objectives are achieved by established deadlines • Responding to communications relating to corporate engagements and coordinating with internal teams to ensure that every communication is accurately addressed in a timely manner • Organize, prepare, and moderate meetings with targeted companies • Assisting in quality assurance of service deliveries • Creating quarterly and annual engagement reports • Contribute to the production of thought leadership pieces in the area of stewardship and engagement
• Conducted risk assessments on climate change, natural resource, and biodiversity risks, ensuring compliance with ESG regulations. • Provided data assurance on GHG emissions, climate change scenario analysis, and ESG metrics review for corporate social responsibility. • Led training sessions for team members on current ESG/Sustainability topics to enhance knowledge and skills.
• Managing the entire cycle of workflow including coordination with the client for timely work allocation, re-allocation of tasks to internal teams; communicate with team leads daily to monitor task completion status • Supported cross-functional teams and senior leadership on different levels to increase project revenue • Managing hiring (onboarding/offboarding) plan based on forecasted work volumes, maintaining contingency resources • Using Six-sigma techniques for improvement in timely and quality deliverables • Comprehensive RCA for identifying gaps in existing processes and enhancing them using Agile project management. • Leading the governance calls (Weekly/monthly) with clients in the US, UK, Manila, and Mumbai for project status updates • Coordination with internal stakeholders and departments for continuous process enhancement
Senior research analyst • Contribute to Corporate Governance/sustainability research and data products of clients to understand global companies' long-term investment potential and segmentation of companies based on ESG ratings/scores across different industry sectors like Energy, Utilities, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Automobile, and transport, etc. • Analyzed the Annual Reports, CSR Report, Proxy Statement and Articles of a company to gather information regarding Economic, Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance-related issues like human rights, labor rights and standards, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, Environment, Health, and safety (EHS), Annual general meetings, Board of directors’ compensation & stock ownership, policies, and regulations, etc. • Worked on different types of companies such as - Holding companies - Diversified companies (Measures of holding and its group subsidiary companies and calculating various ESG metrics as a whole group) Workflow management • Monitor and manage whole team’s workload • Participate in client calls related to workflow as well as the overall performance of the team • Responsibility for overall delivery across different projects and maintaining SLAs • Monitoring and on-time delivery of all the ad-hoc projects (short term projects) • Design and develop efficient workflow tracking and managing process • Provide top management with analyzed monthly reports Additional responsibilities • Serve as de-facto manager in absence of immediate manager • Hiring contractual employees and interns as per the additional requirements
Analyst - Investment Research • Research based on corporate governance factors and extract the rich source of in-depth research data about risk, opportunities, and capabilities involved in sustainable investment • Working with different types of information sources and creating a rating score • led a team of 8 analysts and maintained a high-quality score of average 96% and delivery of 100%
• Compression moulding • Working on Hydraulic press machine • CNC VMC machining • Wire cutting and injection moulding