ESG Manager
KPMG LG
Total years of experience :10 years, 9 Months
- Work as part of and manage a multidisciplinary team across a range of industries to assist companies in better understand and develop solutions to respond to the complex and evolving policy, regulatory, and business environment risks and opportunities associated with Corporate Sustainability.
- Review and analyse corporate activities and provide recommendations related to enhance their ESG strategy, methods, framework, and related tools to support clients in achieving their ESG objectives.
- Manage the review and development of ESG programs and related reporting, such as materiality assessments, peer benchmarking, stakeholder engagement, gap analysis, KPI identification (in alignment with common sustainability reporting standards such as GRI), and the preparation of reporting materials.
- Manage client relationships, business development efforts, and internal collateral and pieces of training on sustainability and ESG topics.
- Created a new tool for “Shadow Rating” based on MSCI, Sustainalitics and Moody’s ESG rating methodologies.
- Created a new team planning integrating KPIs on business development and projects in progress.
- Winner of the company’s “Best CSR project” contest.
- Oversaw a team of 12 analysts to ensure delivery of business targets for several new product lines.
- Partnered closely with senior managers across several departments for the design, prototyping and launch of new operations, and ensured proper communication to project stakeholders via tailored KPIs. Mention reporting to program manager bi-weekly
- Processed, validated and analysed patterns and gaps across over 120, 000 data points for product development efforts, as well as final client deliverables.
Key responsibilities:
- Managed daily planning of data analysts and quality specialists (12 members).
- Trained junior analysts & Led business-critical methodology projects, including rating scale and thresholds, alternative rating approaches, and protocols on non-public information.
- Overviewed product design & developed internal guidelines on how to integrate ESG factors into credit rating processes.
Selected Accomplishments:
- Established the team’s Analyst User Guide to document internal processes and facilitate the integration of new recruits and communication with stakeholders.
- Built and managed the quality assessment and planning optimization project.
- Led the assessment of efficiency of the machine learning’s deployment.
- Managed the production planning of the Sovereign rating during three delivery cycles.
- Ensured quality controls and enhancement of data maintenance processes and productivity.
- Actively supported institutional stakeholders on responsible investment strategies and on ESG engagements.
- Established the Analyst User Guide for the Sovereign Sustainable Rating.
- Training of new recruits and discussion of product with stakeholders.
- Managed the daily planning of ESG analysts (22 members).
- Performed research & data analysis for critical highly responsive companies.
- Arrange daily screening and validation of allegations and issuing of alerts.
- Conducted quality checks and quality reviews for non-accredited ESG Analysts.
- Tutored new analysts on ESG and the application of the company’s methodology.
- Delivered ESG related training on topics the following topics: Environment, Corporate Governance, Human Resources, Human Rights, Community Involvement, Suppliers & Customers and Business Ethics.
- Assessed issuers public reporting for the “Supermarkets”, “Hotels, Leisure Goods & Services”, “Travel & Tourism”, “Transport & Logistics”, “Business Support Services”, “Specialised Retail”, “Pharmaceutical”, “Health Care” and “Real Estate” sectors.
- Served as Subject Matter Expert for the “Hotels, Leisure Goods & Services” and “Transport & Logistics” sectors.
- Member of the Human Resources thematic group and referent on “Employee Participation” and “Training Career Management”.
- Created sector publications and supported sales teams and investors on sector-specific requests.
- Established the Analyst User Guide for the Transport & Logistics Sector.
- Created a system that facilitates the allocation of tasks. Reduction of planning issues by 82%.
- Created a system for automatic generation of performance assessments following assigned product guidelines applied to indices. Resulting on a reduction of the time allocated by 70%.
- Identified and integrated three new field of activities (sub-sectors) and adapted their rating in the company’s methodology.
Responsible for communication channels, translation of documents, interpretation and management of meetings with international partners. Studies reports and KPIs provided by clients in order to define the procedures to be followed.
- Ensured the correct definition of the cost price for standard and specific orders by taking into consideration the different parameters such as: Raw materials, shipping, working hours, energy, leasing.
- Developed a calculation basis that resulted on a reduction of the calculation time by 85% for standard orders.
- Implemented the continuous assessment of the value of the company’s showroom.
- Conducted destructive and non-destructive mechanical testing in accordance with the standards established by the Department of Trade and Industry.
- Created a new calculation system integrating the norms established by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
- Reduced the time allocated for dimensional controls from 2 days to 3 hours in standard orders.