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KARTHIK MUTHUSWAMY

KARTHIK MUTHUSWAMY

Navi Mumbai,Maharashtra

Summary

Results-oriented ESG professional with over 8 years of experience in ESG reporting, controls, and assurance analysis across leading frameworks, including ESRS, SFDR, EU Taxonomy, SDG, DJSI, ISSB S1 & S2, and CDP. Led risk reporting assurance readiness by engaging with internal and external stakeholders—material topic owners and external auditors (KPMG/EY)—across UK and European teams, ensuring alignment with compliance and reporting standards. Skilled in managing comprehensive ESG KPI disclosures, including annual and semi-annual reporting cycles, coupled with preparation of detailed variance analyses. Extensive hands-on experience with ESG reporting controls for Vodafone Group Plc across ESRS-IRO, SFDR, and SASB. Former ESG Content Specialist at Morningstar Sustainalytics, contributing to EU Taxonomy and SFDR PAI Benchmarking, with expertise in negative screening, sustainable finance frameworks, and S&P Trucost research involving PCAF and EEIO modelling to inform DJSI scoring.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

ESG Controls Reporting Manager

VOIS
Pune
06.2024 - Current
  • ESG Control, Testing & assurance process for each selected material topics for ESG reporting.
  • Preparing the ESG risk control as per the ESRS standard IRO, SBM, E1-E5, S1-S4, G1. (Double materiality) with the process of Triple bottom line with People, Planet & Profit topics.
  • EU Taxonomy & SFDR reporting controls.
  • Coordinating with Data owner, Material owner for determining the disclosure to remediate any necessary risk has been mitigated from reporting disclosure related to all parameters along with estimations proxies .
  • Assurance testing for all EU region market as per the ESRS & ISSB disclosure and provide the necessary compliance on Pass or fail to determine the trustworthiness of CSRD reporting.
  • Working under the Charted Accountants & SOx audit compliance for ESG quality audit process to ensure the completeness & accuracy of Sustainability reporting.
  • Act as second line defense on ESG risk advisory service for ESG reporting of internal reporting like Ecovadis, CDP reporting, DJSI engagement.

Senior Associate

PWC
Mumbai
01.2024 - 06.2024
  • ESG proposals to stakeholders (Banks, Asset management) like ESG framework IFRS S1 & S2, CSRD, Equator Principles.
  • EU Taxonomy, CSRD, PCAF, Sustainable finance screening on Environment & Social model
  • Worked with Standard charted bank account principles framework
  • Climate risk on alignment taxonomy on loan book.
  • Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) - Benchmarks Regulation (BMR).
  • Setting governance regulations on Financial service ESG coordinating with various financial institutions (Standard charted, Nomura, HDFC, HSBC)

ESG Content Specialist

Morningstar Inc
Mumbai
05.2022 - 01.2024
  • Worked on ESG Research Impact Pillar performs research related to the impact companies and using ESG Metrics or through their involvement in sustainable activities and in unsustainable or harmful activities. Rate & Research several products to conduct our research, including:
  • ESG Risk Rating - Comparing the rating analysis by doing sensitive of industry & Sub industry on materiality mapping.
  • EU Taxonomy (Article 8,9 also with DNHS criteria pass or No pass)
  • Impact Metrics (Article 9 of Sustainable activities)
  • Impact Rating (Environmental & Social screening model)
  • Product Involvement - Negative screening of companies
  • Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) - Benchmarks Regulation (BMR). (PAI Indicators).

Senior Data Researcher - 2

S & P Capital IQ (India) Pvt. ltd.
Hyderabad
05.2016 - 06.2021
  • Financial & ESG data analyzing in the market intelligence platform with respect to Annual report, MDA, Proxy , Citizenship, ESG, CSR and Data book , Climate change (CDP) & UNGC .
  • Analyzing with Various filing source like SEC filing industries in US & CANADA, Dart Korean, Shanghai China, SGX, Market cap index, Eurozone, Norway indexes. Reviewing and finalizing the financial data analyzing with NAICS / SIC codes for the relevant companies and according with Trucost calculations.
  • Reviewing analyzable and unanalyzable companies from ESG point of view through Capital IQ platform.
  • ESG analysis along with relevant disclosure from various sources with collaboration of Robecosam .
  • Climate change analysis in terms of CDP reporting and their disclosure methods & external audits and their query along with extending support for the internal process control.
  • Extracting the operational data from the assigned companies with different scenarios of Trucost methodology.
  • Carbon reporting and IEA , GWP factor conversions from the Trucost tools engagement. Familiarity with non-financial reporting frameworks, including GRI Standards, TCFD, UNGC-COP, UNPRI, among others. ESG trends and specific knowledge about the dominant ESG issues for selected industries, such as (not limited to) water, climate change, waste, circular economy, CSR, Shared Value Models, EIAs/SIAs, Energy Management.
  • Analyzing the reporting structures based on the relevant industries.
  • Steering 9+ directs and ensuring back-ups availability when the primary backups are on leave
  • Managing the responsibility in internal department and people management verticals.
  • May 2016 - Nov 2018 IRIS KPO resourcing (India) private limited. Chennai, Trucost plc then got acquired by S&P

Education

Professional Diploma in Sustainability -

ACCA
UK
06-2026

Climate risk for financial service -

Atlantic Technological University (ATU) By Insurance Institute Ireland
Dublin
01.2025

Sustainability Reporting Practitioner (GRI, SASB, -

Earth Academy
Online
02-2023

Master of Business Administration -

University of Madras
Chennai
01.2020

Bachelor of Law -

Osmania Law College
Hyderabad
06.2013

Bachelor of Commerce -

Osmania University
Hyderabad
06.2010

Skills

  • Climate change (TCFD, PACTA, Taxonomy, SFDR), GRI, SASB, ISSB S1 & S2
  • Ecovadis assessment of supplier & for internal reporting
  • CDP, UNGC, All Industrial classifications of ESG reporting
  • Sustainability/CSR research (GRI,SASB, Rating firm material risk)
  • Morningstar Review of Sustainable market
  • Engagement process towards the MSCI, S&P RobecoSAM, ISS, Sustainalytics

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Proficient in English & Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada

Timeline

ESG Controls Reporting Manager

VOIS
06.2024 - Current

Senior Associate

PWC
01.2024 - 06.2024

ESG Content Specialist

Morningstar Inc
05.2022 - 01.2024

Senior Data Researcher - 2

S & P Capital IQ (India) Pvt. ltd.
05.2016 - 06.2021

Professional Diploma in Sustainability -

ACCA

Climate risk for financial service -

Atlantic Technological University (ATU) By Insurance Institute Ireland

Sustainability Reporting Practitioner (GRI, SASB, -

Earth Academy

Master of Business Administration -

University of Madras

Bachelor of Law -

Osmania Law College

Bachelor of Commerce -

Osmania University

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