Measuring the Work That Impacts the Soul of a Company

PNC | Insights

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 29, 2023 / There has never been a time during Johnathan Kearney's career when he has not been drawn to data. For nearly 25 years, the self-described data geek leveraged data and its increasingly abundant and sophisticated capture mechanisms to lead risk management and credit risk reporting functions for some of the largest banks in the Southeast before taking on his current data-intensive role as business analytics group manager for PNC's Corporate Responsibility Group.

"I have always had a deep appreciation for data, what it can tell us and how it can help us develop solutions to business challenges," says Kearney, a North Carolina State University graduate who joined PNC Bank through its acquisition of RBC Bank (USA) more than one decade ago.

Kearney's unrelenting commitment to accuracy and data integrity proved to be integral to the success he found in his former role managing balance sheet analytics and modeling for PNC's business-critical enterprise and credit risk reporting team. Meanwhile, his passion for mentorship and employee development helped shape a pipeline of PNC leaders, while his membership in the North Carolina Bankers Association's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Council is helping create impact within the financial services landscape of his home state. So it should come as no surprise that when PNC's Corporate Responsibility Officer was searching in 2020 for a talented visionary to oversee data analytics and reporting for PNC's increasingly extensive and far-ranging community commitments, he turned to Kearney.

A pronounced focus on corporate responsibility and its measurement was not at all new for PNC at the time of Kearney's appointment; the bank has consistently produced data to quantify its community commitments and earn an 'Outstanding' Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rating in every performance evaluation issued since enactment of the CRA more than 40 years ago. But when Kearney joined PNC's Corporate Responsibility Group in 2020 against the backdrop of immense change, opportunity and growth within the company, the importance of elevating awareness, accountability and transparency for corporate responsibility efforts had never been more important.