“We have a network of companies in the area of ​​shared services within this industry. In Romania we have 3,000 colleagues in Bucharest. We also have centers in India, Morocco and Poland. It’s a fascinating industry, we offer services from the range of human resources, accounting, transformations, compliance, IT.

My role would be useless without my colleagues. We have colleagues who are leaders for certain activities that we carry out in CSR. Within the company, CSR has two major dimensions: CSR for us and CSR as a service that has become practical ESG. The umbrella of ESG practice has several interesting elements that we have developed according to the needs of the group, which has aligned itself towards a strong development regarding environmental transition and sustainable impact financing,” Ioana Botezatu, Head of CSR, Societe Generale Global Solution Centre said during Sustainability in Business Forum organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest and Sustainability Today.

“We finance the green economy and assist clients from the fossil fuels area and other areas that still do not have a sustainable long-term business.

Through ESG practice we offer 3 interesting services: ESG assessment is an analysis of corporate clients with a turnover of more than 7 million euros. This first analysis helps us to understand in which partnership we can continue with them and how we can help them also through the financing element. There are more detailed analyses, we have colleagues who also look at negative news on environmental and social practices.

We also have a project management area for ESG by design program of the group. We help to transform the group with all its internal stakeholders. Sustainability is basically the injection of principles into absolutely everything we do.

We also have non-financial reporting, the area taken over by colleagues from accounting. We have a big footprint from the group in Romania. We are an important factor in the Societe Generale group for this transformation.

There is a symbiotic relationship with our CFO, otherwise we would not be able to achieve any report of any kind. We want the integration of this social economy more in our purchasing area.”