Sandeep K Manocha

ESG and Sustainability professional with over 11 years of experience delivering climate change, sustainable finance, ESG assurance, net-zero transition, and clean energy advisory engagements across global consulting organizations including KPMG, EY, and PwC. Extensive experience supporting multinational organizations in ESG reporting and assurance under CSRD/ESRS, SFDR, EU Taxonomy, GRI, TCFD, and PCAF frameworks. Proven expertise in financed emissions assessment, climate disclosures, ESG gap assessments, peer benchmarking, transition planning, and net-zero strategy development.

Assistant Manager – ESG Assurance at KPMG Global Services (KRC_KDN) (2024-09 – 2026-06)

• Led ESG assurance procedures for multinational clients under CSRD/ESRS requirements, reviewing climate disclosures, financed emissions, GHG inventories, energy consumption, and sustainability KPIs to support regulatory compliance and external assurance.
• Worked on (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation – Article 6, 8 and 9) and EU Taxonomy with its objectives
• Developing ESG skills (SASB, ISSB, TCFD etc)
• Designed and facilitated ESG capability-building sessions for internal teams and client stakeholders covering CSRD, SFDR, ESRS requirements, and sustainable finance developments

Senior Consultant – ESG and Sustainability at Ernst & Young Global Delivery Services (EY GDS India) (2022-12 – 2024-09)

• Conducted ESG maturity assessments and peer benchmarking across chemical, aviation, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and public sector organizations to identify gaps against TPT recommendations and develop actionable net-zero transition strategies
• Worked on analysis of Net zero goals of the companies for Conference of the Parties (COP 28) held in UAE
• Worked on Gap Analyis for Automotive Sector in line with Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
• ESG analysis with peer analysis and best practices of various sectors and companies like pharma, chemical, telecom, packaging etc
• Sustainability reporting as per CSRD and GRI

Associate, Advisory, GRID, Clean Energy, Management Consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd. (PwC India) (2018-06 – 2022-12)

• Worked on the CECP Project to develop Net Zero strategies of tourism locations of India
• Worked on the proposal to develop the ESG strategies for one of the real estate firm of India, have good understanding of TCFD, GRI, CDP, and GHG emisisons
• Worked on various aspects of Technical Proposal for BEE, for the energy efficiency of buildings – Eco-Niwas Samhita (ENS), Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) of India.
• Worked for the Punjab Government for the enforcement for ECBC – Residential in Punjab, project by BEE and GIZ.
• Worked on the energy assessment of existing buildings for the Energy Efficiency guidelines of Maldives with objective of decarbonization

Senior Energy Analyst at PEC Solutions Green Design Pvt.Ltd (2016-10 – 2018-05)

Worked on various green building projects including Energy analysis/Carbon footprint reduction for IGBC and GRIHA covering commercial buildings, hospitals, residential buildings

Energy Analyst at GreenTree Building Energy Pvt. Ltd (2015-10 – 2016-09)

Worked on various IGBC and GRIHA projects for the energy efficiency aspect and carbon footprint reduction in line with green building rating system

Consultant at First Green Consulting Pvt. Ltd (2015-05 – 2015-09)

Worked on the feasibily of few GRIHA projects and DLF buildings documentation as per LEED EBOM 2009

Internship at Green Horizon Pvt.Ltd (2014-12 – 2015-04)

Started career as Intern and worked on the understanding of Green building projects and due diligence activities of IGBC and GRIHA Projects

M.Tech and B.Tech in Energy efficiency (Sustainability and carbon footprint reduction) – Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (2009 – 2014)

Senior Secondary & Secondary – CBSE (2007 – 2009)