Sumit Kaushik
Gurgaon
Summary
Detail-oriented ESG Assistant Manager with 7+ years of experience offers more than extensive progressive record of accomplishment in leadership roles. Establishes clear guidelines and enforces consistent policies to keep staff satisfied and on-target to achieve important objectives. Excellent relationship-building, multitasking, and decision-making skills. Highly proficient in delivering ESG or sustainability engagements with great level of quality.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Manager - ESG
KPMG Global Services
Gurgaon
03.2024 - Current
- Supported project management by coordinating team activities and schedules.
- Assisted in developing training materials for new employees and ongoing programs.
- Facilitated communication between departments to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
- Conducted research on industry trends to inform strategic planning initiatives.
- Managed client inquiries, providing timely responses and solutions to issues.
- Implemented process improvements to streamline workflows and reduce redundancies.
- Mentored junior staff, fostering skills development and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Collaborated with management on developing strategic plans for achieving business goals.
- Successfully delivered 20+ ESG engagements on various ESG initiatives such as ESG Reporting, Gap Assessments and other key Sustainability Focus areas across Geo’s (Australia, UK and US).
- Subject matter expert of various ESG frameworks such as ASRS (ASSB S1 and S2), ISSB, CSRD.
- Conducted regular performance reviews for employees to identify areas of improvement.
- Reviewed completed work to verify consistency, quality, and conformance.
Senior Consultant
Ernst & Young - Global Delivery Services (EY GDS)
Noida
12.2021 - 03.2024
- Supported the team in conducting exhaustive research around the ESG market needs and opportunities for entry across various sectors & assisted in proposal and pipeline analysis
- Carried out ESG materiality assessment and peer comparison study for Companies
- Carried out Global market scan to support building an ESG Business Opportunity Case for a client (Leading Accounting Firm)
- Assisted in developing a supply chain optimisation play book for a leading TMT company from US
- ESG and Decarbonisation profiles for Companies across various sectors to assess their ESG Maturity against their peer companies
- Created POV's on leading global frameworks such as EU Taxonomy and US-SEC Proposed regulations
- Assisted in KPI mapping for building a ESG Solution
- Supported the Team in creating sector agnostic excel based playbook having repository of KPI's in context to various Reporting standards across the Globe
Research Analyst
S&P Global Ratings
Ahmedabad
02.2019 - 12.2021
- Researched 200+ ESG metrics in SAM CSA process to generate ESG ratings of companies from all GICS sectors. Audited and analyzed data to verify quality and data integrity
- Established procedural workflows to streamline the quality check process across various projects and managed an array of ad-hoc projects such as benchmarking, score check analysis, testing of rating's criteria of SAM CSA indicators
- Gathering competitive intelligence information using internal and external research sources such as proxy, company reports, websites, Bloomberg etc
- As a Site Point of Contact, handled for query resolution, resolve disputes among research analysts and QC analysts and disseminate all major updates precisely to the team. Conducted training modules on various ESG topics based on business requirements to uplift ESG knowledge of a team
- Worked as a SPOC for multiple ESG Screens such as Coal Mining, Thermal Coal, Nuclear etc. and performing Quality checks for various screens
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance and Marketing
Rajasthan Tech university
Bachelor of Commerce -
University of Rajasthan
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Primary and Secondary Research
- Governing Sustainable finance - ADBI
- IBM Envizi
- Microsoft cloud for sustainability
- ESG reporting
- Project management
- ESG frameworks
Certification
- Fundamentals of Intelligent Sustainable Business
- Bronze Badge - Long-Term Value through ESG (at EY)
- Introduction to Sustainable finance - UNCC
- Bronze Badge - Sustainable finance (at EY)
Languages
- Hindi
- English, Full Professional Proficiency
- Hindi, Full Professional Proficiency
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Assistant Manager - ESG
KPMG Global Services
03.2024 - Current
Senior Consultant
Ernst & Young - Global Delivery Services (EY GDS)
12.2021 - 03.2024
Research Analyst
S&P Global Ratings
02.2019 - 12.2021
Master of Business Administration - Finance and Marketing
Rajasthan Tech university
Bachelor of Commerce -
University of Rajasthan