Kavya N
Vice President - Sustainability Data Platforms & Technology
KANCHIPURAM
Summary
- Strategic leader driving innovation at the intersection of Climate Intelligence, ESG reporting and data engineering.
- Proven track record in building scalable data platforms, leading cross-functional teams and delivering regulatory compliant digital solutions for Sustainability and CLimate Risk reporting.
- Over18 years of experience in the captive banking domain with exposure in the areas of SDLC, Project Management, Business Analysis & Operations,
- Skilled in aligning business needs with technical solutions, leveraging cutting-edge financial technologies, and ensuring compliance with global regulations.
- Good working knowledge of Finance, Regulatory Reporting, and Investment Banking Operations.
- Clientele - Barclays Shared Services Pvt. Ltd, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS NV), ABN AMRO NV and Citibank NA.
Knowledgeable lead with solid background in leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality projects on time. Successfully managed complex project portfolios, ensuring alignment with business goals and client satisfaction. Demonstrated excellence in stakeholder communication and agile methodologies.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
2010
2010
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Vice President - Climate Data & Technology
Barclays Global Service Centre
04.2025 - Current
- Lead the strategy and execution of Climate data platforms to support sustainability, ESG disclosure (CSRD, Pillar 3 & EU Taxonomy) and Climate Risk modeling.
- Partnered with regulatory, business and tech stakeholders to build end to end digital solutions for carbon reporting and scenario analysis.
- Spearheading cross-functional teams (engineering, product, data science) to deliver AI/ML driven data analytics for environmental performance monitoring.
- Led the design and implementation of enterprise wide ESG reporting systems aligned to CSRD and EU Taxonomy requirements, ensuring compliance and audit-readiness.
- Collaborated with sustainability officers, risk leads and finance to establish a unified data governance framework enabling traceable and consistent ESG metrics.
- Spearhead readiness assessments and gap analysis to align business data architecture with double materiality and sector-specific CSRD KPI's
Lead Business Analyst - Group Stress Testing & Climate Tech
Barclays Global Service Centre
07.2022 - 03.2025
- Directed a team of business analysts providing mentorship, performance feedback and career development support.
- Led the execution of ESG regulatory reporting a mandatory disclosure on CRR Pillar 3 and EU Taxonomy KPI metric to European Banking Authority as part of PRA requirements.
- Leading Data analysis on Finance metrics for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to define the architectural design and agree on the reporting requirements for 2024 disclosure and beyond.
- Prepared reports summarizing findings from data analysis activities providing actionable insights.
- Co-led the execution of Sustainable Finance reporting framework for Climate internal reporting team.
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines and resolving conflicts.
- Interpreted business requirements into technical solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders while adhering to delivery standards.
- Lead teams in development of comprehensive documentation such as business rules, functional specifications, use cases.
- Allocated tasks tracked progress and ensured timely delivery of high-quality deliverables across multiple projects within Group stress testing and Climate Tech portfolios within GFED.
- Developed strategies for improving operational efficiency through automation or process re-engineering techniques.
- Collaborated with Senior Stakeholders to prioritize and roadmap initiatives in-line with financial technology advancements and regulatory changes.
- Reporting Framework construct for ESG Regulation – Finance Sustainability Data Repository (FSDR) for ESG reporting to support Pillar 3 and EU Taxonomy disclosure to EBA.
- Sustainable Performance Reporting dashboard to reclassify the financial products and services offered by Barclays as sustainable against Bank’s $1 trillion target by 2030.
- PnST Automation for Oversight and Business Intelligence Team (OBI) – an automated Python framework to upload model outputs to PASCAL with data transformation without manual intervention.
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD): Finance metric data analysis over 72 data points, to discover the Data lineage and architectural proposal for CSRD reporting requirements as part of 2024 disclosure and beyond.
- Defined the data landscape for Net Interest Income reporting as part of EBA disclosure for Stress Testing covering six business functions.
- Process Reengineering: Led the redesign of Finance Data consolidation process for financial reporting team to support ESG regulatory disclosure, through an automated consolidation framework for Barclays Bank Ireland and Barclays Bank PLC entities.
Technical Business Analyst
Barclays Shared Services
05.2015 - 12.2024
- Regulatory reporting (Asset Encumbrance) and Financial Control domain.
- Part of the centrally located Financial Control change team which supports global finance users.
- Responsible for working with the business teams to understand their requirements and preparing a detailed project plan involving various service-oriented teams to deliver the project.
- Delivering tech milestones aligned to the project objective that resulted in Business benefits.
- Managed execution of Asset Encumbrance Reporting for European Banking Authority, build a tech solution to automate the reporting structure.
- Migration – ACBS to Loan IQ Migration (2020 – 2021)
- Global lead Finance Year End deliver for 4 consecutive years (2015 – 2018)
- Structural reform Programme – Creation of additional views for regulatory reporting under Basel III norms (01/2018 – 06/2018)
- ERRP (BREXIT) project lead for Asset Encumbrance
Technical Project Manager/Business Analyst
Barclays Shared Services
05.2021 - 06.2022
- Directed end to end project lifecycle for MGI Clearing Systems, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
- Defined project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.
- Developed and maintained detailed project plans, timelines and budget ensuring milestones were met within deadline and financial constraints.
- Successful delivery of Index Options Onboarding in BCE for Clearing (Aug 2021 – Mar 2022)
Senior Process Associate
Royal Bank of Scotland NV
12.2010 - 05.2015
- 4 Years of Experience as a “Change Manager” in Market Operations.
- Primary contact between key business stakeholders and process managers (ABN Amro Bank, Markets NL) to successfully deliver projects of varied sizes and complexities contributing to the overall strategic direction of the organization.
- Provided project management and transition management expertise and leads projects/ programs of the Business Unit.
- Managed process migration – Interest Rate Derivatives product set-up in service organization (Confirmations, Trade Processing, and settlements workstreams)
- System Migration – Wallstreet to Murex Enigma for Interest Rate Derivative Products
- Lean Champion – Enabled and managed lean control board for process optimization
Associate
Royal Bank of Scotland NV
06.2008 - 12.2010
- 2 Years of Experience in core operations activities. SME in managing the end-to-end trade life cycle on Interest Rate Derivatives and Foreign Exchange Derivatives.
- Trade Capture - Monitoring and reviewing new trades /amendments/buyouts. Calculation of EMTN & Commodities Rate fixings.
- Liaising with various counterparties and custodians to agree settlement amounts and instruct payments (SWIFT / ACH/ Fed wire). Reconciliation & Investigation of cash breaks.
Associate
ABN AMRO BANK NV
03.2007 - 06.2008
- Exposure to the Derivatives Trade processing in-line to FO Trade tickets, Confirmations, Settlements Investigations and Claims on the Foreign Exchange (SPOT, FORWARD, and SWAP OPTIONS) trade breaks.
- Prioritisation of work based on the currency cut-off, Value date, Risk and Aging of the breaks.
- Good exposure to the SWIFT instructions and payments, Sending SWIFTS to Nostro agents, counter parties and counter party agents related to the investigation.
Executive
MMC InfoTech Private Limited
06.2004 - 03.2007
- Managed all cash associated instruments for Citibank (Loans, Cards, and Insurance)
Education
Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Business Administration
Loyola Institute of Business Administration
Bachelor of Computer Applications - undefined
Madras University
Skills
Lifecycle management in software development
Process optimization
Strategic issue analysis
Risk analysis expertise
Project execution management
Efficiency enhancement
Change implementation strategies
Cross-functional teamwork
Stakeholder collaboration
Team mentoring
Strategic solution development
Data-driven business analysis
Crisis management coordination
User acceptance testing execution
Project timeline management
Comprehensive test planning
Effective test execution
Software deployment coordination
Activities And Awards
- Women in Leadership program – Graduated in 2023 (DE&I initiative to foster leadership capabilities in Women Colleagues)
- WWRT – Graduated in Women Wizards Rule Tech Program Cohort4 (2023-2024) an initiative by Barclays to upskill women in Technology.
- Wake The Dragon program – Graduated in 2022, an initiative by Emerge ERG to strengthen the pipeline and improve multigenerational diversity at leadership levels.
- Recognised for Excellence by Climate Internal reporting stakeholder (Shruti Phani) for key delivery in ESG Regulations and demonstrating leadership capabilities.
- Recognised for World-class service by Head of Model Strategy & Delivery (Nicholas Gee) on defining the data landscape for Net Interest Income reporting as part of EBA disclosure.
- Nominated for Women Achievers Award in two consecutive years (02/23 & 02/24) by team for Drive - being an inspirational leader.
- Nominated for Citizenship and Diversity awards 2024.
Skills
Software Development Lifecycle, Business Process Improvement, Problem Solving, Risk Assessment, Project Management, Workflow Optimization, Change Management, Teamwork and collaboration, Stakeholder Management, Leadership & Mentoring, Business Solution Development, Negotiation & Conflict Resolution, Data Analysis, Requirements Gathering and Elicitation, Data Analysis – Microsoft excel - Power Query and Power Pivot, Business Intelligence – Tableau, Qlik View, Data Querying & Transformation – SQL, Alteryx, Change Delivery – JIRA boards, Confluence, SharePoint
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Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 24 staff members.
- Collaborated with team of Business Analyst, Software Developers (ETL, Database, DevOps, Reporting) in the development of Technology Platforms for CSRD, ESG and Stress Testing Reporting
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
On-SiteHybridImportant To Me
Career advancementPersonal development programsCompany CultureQuote
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rodgers
Timeline
Vice President - Climate Data & Technology
Barclays Global Service Centre
04.2025 - Current
Lead Business Analyst - Group Stress Testing & Climate Tech
Barclays Global Service Centre
07.2022 - 03.2025
Technical Project Manager/Business Analyst
Barclays Shared Services
05.2021 - 06.2022
Technical Business Analyst
Barclays Shared Services
05.2015 - 12.2024
Senior Process Associate
Royal Bank of Scotland NV
12.2010 - 05.2015
Associate
Royal Bank of Scotland NV
06.2008 - 12.2010
Associate
ABN AMRO BANK NV
03.2007 - 06.2008
Executive
MMC InfoTech Private Limited
06.2004 - 03.2007
Bachelor of Computer Applications - undefined
Madras University
Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Business Administration
Loyola Institute of Business Administration