KPMG and Unqork decode ESG

Sustainability underwriting and portfolio management require prompt, seamless and accurate ESG and sustainability data. However, collecting, measuring, and reporting this data is often cumbersome and hampered with inaccuracies from manual spreadsheets, emails and disjointed solutions that offer limited visibility and data quality controls.

Introducing a digital tool for private funds developed by KPMG, enabled by Unqork’s codeless architecture that streamlines the ESG and sustainability data collection process, ensures high-quality data, and enables easier, more nimble reporting.

The platform offers an integrated user experience to send digital data requests and delivers complete workflow automation, end-to-end auditability, and built-in data validations. Further, the tool can be fully integrated with the ecosystem of clients, targets, and portfolio companies.

Consider how we helped a global asset manager who recently launched a new sustainable fund and needed a standard way to capture quality ESG data for their portfolio to evaluate potential investments.  

Together we built a customizable, codeless solution to perform pre and post investment data collection for their portfolio companies. The tool aligned to SFDR with built-in benchmarking capabilities to help facilitate effective decisioning and funding.

Offering an automated workflow, and user-friendly interface, it increases process transparency for fund analysts and supervisors while custom dashboards and reporting by persona provide a single data source for LP’s, GPs and Portfolio Companies. Finally, the codeless platform offers the flexibility to quickly adapt to meet evolving regulatory guidance and SEC requirements.

KPMG brings a knowledge of private funds, ESG, and technology that can help transform your investor and Portfolio Company experience and create competitive differentiation.

In today’s highly regulated arena of ESG reporting, you need tools that collect, track, aggregate, and memorialize all pertinent data centrally with flexibility and nimbleness to handle evolving requirements.

KPMG and Unqork help users develop no-code solutions that help bridge the gaps among data sources and make reporting faster, more transparent and auditable.

Consider how KPMG and Unqork helped a large U.S. energy company shorten its reporting cycle from 12 months to less than one!

Vast amounts of fragmented data from multiple sites segmented across multiple states needed to be tracked for ESG reporting compliance.

KPMG and Unqork helped the client create a workflow-management tool to automate communications to data providers, digitize data collection and build workflow and live dashboarding that centrally tracks progress and approval status.

Every person who submits data for monthly reports logs into the platform and receives assigned tasks tied to relevant data points.

Providers are notified when it’s time to login, and when an issue has been escalated to supervisors.

• data providers certify the information is accurate
• reviewers are notified to check the reports,
• and the company’s regulatory group can get a real-time snapshot of the data collection process.

This helped the client achieve significant reductions in operational risk, errors and the time to report.

Learn how KPMG and Unqork help maintain data integrity and confidence in internal and external ESG reporting.