Deputy General Manager – Corporate Sustainability
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited (mmfsl)
Total years of experience :20 years, 8 Months
Head - Corporate Sustainability for Mahindra Finance Limited
Sustainability Strategy:
• Responsible for strategizing approach on Green Lending & Sustainable Finance
• Present to the Board - Strategy on Sustainability, Propose Initiatives and Develop Sustainability Roadmap for long term value creation
• Internal audits on Energy and Environmental aspects
Policy Advocacy:
• Represent Mahindra Finance in strategic public platforms, events and meetings
• Advisory board and part of working group for “Finance and Insurance Sector on Climate Change” with Confederation of Indian Industry. Part of working group to formulate “Integration of SDG in Finance Sector”
• Invited by SBTi to set methodology for Science Based Targets for Financial Institutions
ESG implementation & Climate Change:
• Implementing ESG and integrating Climate change risks, its financial impacts and leverage opportunities in collaboration with internal & external stakeholders.
• Respond to information requests from global investors on ESG aspects.
• Adopted Science Based Targets (1st Financial Company)
• Carbon Neutrality Roadmap
Communication & Disclosures:
• Lead communication & voluntary disclosures (e.g., Sustainability Report, Business Responsibility & Sustainability Report (BRSR & BRR), Integrated Report, DJSI, CDP, UN SDG etc.) for Mahindra Finance
Training & Capacity Building:
• Formulate Awareness programs and Capacity building of internal stakeholders for Corporate Sustainability, which has led to easier access to reporting on International Integrated Reporting Council, BRSR and other frameworks.
Awards & Recognition:
• Responsible for recognition of Mahindra Finance in Sustainability at various platforms:
- Won Global Corporate Sustainability Award in Reporting category, hosted by Alliance of SDG at Taipei, Taiwan.
- Only Financial institution in India to be on DJSI Sustainability yearbook. Included in FTSE for GOOD index
Corporate Sustainability for JSW group
• Manage Corporate Sustainability function for various listed companies of JSW group (Steel, Energy, Cement & Infrastructure)
• Conceptualize, Develop & Implement Sustainability framework, measure and monitor objectives and performance
• Design and publish GRI based Sustainability Report | Annual Business Responsibility Report (SEBI / NVG) | Integrated reporting
• Leading initiatives to achieve performance & targets on Occupational Health & Safety, reporting, analysis and standardization of guidelines for external disclosures, planning of safety audits & submission of related case studies
• JSW’s response for investors, ESG rating agencies & Industry bodies: Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) | Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon and Water | FTSE Russell | Vigeo | Sustainalitics | World Steel Association (WSA) | Ministry of Steel
• Establishing a framework for Stakeholder Engagement and Materiality
• Ownership of internal and external sustainability communications
• Lead site teams for facilitation of EHS / Sustainability training, devising training modules for teams at plant & corporate
• Increase adoption of Responsible Sourcing, Biodiversity and Life Cycle Assessment across Company
• Led the development of India’s first Environment Product Declaration (EPD) for the steel sector, based on life cycle assessment (LCA)
• Identify business case projects for CSR initiatives and making CSR strategic
• Phase-wise roadmap for sustainability agenda & quarterly Board Review at Business Responsibility & Sustainability Committee meeting
• Policy advocacy & responses to the Industry bodies
• Responsible for getting recognition for the Company in Sustainability. Won Asia Best Integrated Report Award from ASRA, at Singapore.
• Represented JSW at International Energy Agency (IEA), Paris as part of working group for "Global Technology Roadmap for Iron and Steel"
Eco Sustainability Unit
Execution and Delivery
• Consultant in designing & implementing to account, measure, monitor and report on organizational sustainability performance
• Lead & Define sustainability performance solution framework in Environment, Water & Waste management approaches & methodologies
• Conducted audits for factories and facilities across the verticals and recommending solutions
• Facilitated IT-enablement for accounting & environmental compliance management through systems designed by TCS
• Business Development in India, USA and Europe | Headed projects in Sustainability, Water Management & Competency development
Consulting Projects Handled:
• Water Auditing, Assessment, Positivity Certification and designing a Tool for one of the largest Cement companies
• Water Audit & Automation making facility a “Zero Discharge”
• USGBC LEED Certification for an existing building for one of the German schools
• Water Audit, Assessment, Risk Mapping & Automation for the world’s largest Engine Manufacturing industry
• Leading Project Management of Interlinkage ff Water audit, Hydraulic modelling, GIS mapping for 40 utilities across Maharashtra state
• Business Analysis of client requirements for designing and implementation of systems
• Hydraulic Modeling using WaterGEMS & Inter linkage of the project with consumer survey using ArcGIS software
• Water & Energy Audits of existing systems, generating detailed Project Report on Water Audit & Hydraulic Modeling
• Financial model analysis for the town, cash flow analysis, cost benefit ratio and payback Periods
Environment Engineering and Sustainability department
Structural and Environment Designing
Structural Designing
