Abhay Dighade

Recruitment & Onboarding

• Managed the entire recruitment and onboarding process, from job posting to candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and seamless new hire induction, while ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance standards.
• Led full-cycle recruitment and onboarding for a variety of roles across departments, reducing average time to fill by 30% and improving new hire retention through structured orientation programs and ongoing candidate engagement.
• Developed and implemented recruitment strategies to attract top talent, worked with department heads to identify workforce needs, and created onboarding frameworks to improve employee experience and productivity.

Payroll Process

• Payroll processing for [2,500] employees, ensuring accuracy in attendance, leave, and salary computations.
• Maintain and update employee addition and deletion trackers for accurate payroll processing.
• Manage attendance and leave while integrating HRMS records for payroll calculations.
• Manage salary advances and ensure accurate monthly payroll adjustments.
• Process all full and final settlements (FnF), including gratuity payments, in accordance with company policy.
• Ensure timely statutory payments (PF, ESI, PT, LWF) by generating and submitting challans.
• Coordination with internal and external stakeholders is required for quarterly payroll audits to ensure compliance to avoid errors and discrepancies, reconcile payroll data with finance records.
• Assist in system upgrades and automation to increase payroll efficiency.
• Collaborate with senior management to establish budget priorities and resource allocation strategies.

Statutory Compliances

• Conduct quarterly compliance audits to ensure complete adherence to labour laws, identify risks, and recommend corrective measures.
• File annual returns for the Bonus Act, Maternity Act, POSH Act, Shop & Establishment Act, and other applicable laws.
• Ensure proper documentation for statutory compliance, including audit-ready records for inspections.
• Assist in conducting internal audits and coordinating with external auditors to ensure that compliance assessments go smoothly.
• Coordinate with labour departments and other regulatory bodies to ensure that reports and submissions are filed on time.
• Monitor revisions in labour laws and make necessary changes to company policies and payroll compliance.
  Handled employee grievances and enquiries about compliance, ensuring proper resolution.

Learning & Development

• Led onboarding and orientation programs for new employees, reducing time-to-productivity by 25%.
• Facilitated compliance and statutory training sessions to ensure complete audit readiness.
• Helped the HR team curate training calendars and communicate with external training vendors.
• Internal knowledge-sharing sessions were designed to promote peer learning and improve cross-functional capabilities.

Employee Insurance Policy Management

• Coordinated with insurance companies and brokers to negotiate policy terms, premium rates, and coverage enhancements in order to maximise employee benefits while remaining within budget.
• Ensured that employees were registered for group health and accident insurance schemes on time, while adhering to all company and statutory requirements.
• Led awareness and induction sessions for employees on insurance benefits, claim procedures, and policy updates.
• Periodic audits and reconciliations of insurance data were conducted to eliminate discrepancies and ensure the accuracy of payroll deductions and policy records.
• Implemented digital tracking systems for insurance status, improving operational transparency and efficiency.

Vendor Management

• Negotiate contracts and pricing to achieve cost savings while maintaining high-quality deliverables.
• Establish strong relationships with key suppliers to drive operational excellence and mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align vendor strategies with business objectives.
• Conduct market research and benchmarking to identify cost-effective vendor solutions.

• Actively participating in Provident Fund hearings, both virtual and physical, including 7A, 7Q and 14B to ensure prompt closure of proceedings
• Successfully handled Union Agreement Negotiation Meeting with finalizing Agreement demands as per management directives
• Successfully completed Penalties, Fines, and Legal action under Employee State Insurance Act
• Successfully completed order of Assessment of Profession Tax
• Handling independently and Co-ordinations with advocates for Labour cases
• Handling independently one plant as a HR (498 & 784 strength Including Contract Labour)
• Filing of Monthly Challans cum return of Provident Fund & Employee state Insurance
• Filing of Quarterly Return of Employment Exchange
• Filing Contribution & Half Yearly Return of Labour Welfare Fund
• Filing of Monthly & Annual Return of Profession Tax
• Filing of Annual Return under Maternity Benefit Act
• Filing of Annual Return and calculation under Payment of Bonus act
• Filing of Annual Return under Sexual Harassment of women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act
• Filing of Annual Return of Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act
• Filing of Annual Return under Factory Act
• Filing of Annual Return of Holidays List
• Maintaining Register under Factory act I.e., Maternity Benefit Act, Minimum Wages Act Payment of Wages Act, Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, Factory Act, Shop and Commercial Establishment Act, Labour Welfare Fund
• Maintaining Register of Employees Contributions, Accident Register under Employee State Insurance Act
• Handling grievances, solving issues and queries, organizing events and parties
• Managing exit process and capturing feedback, analysis resignation & providing feedback to HOD's
• Ensuring timely settlement of final dues of resigned employee
• Issuing notice to employees who are due for retirement
• Ensuring gratuity payment within time frame as and when due
• Facilitating PF and Pension withdrawal, Transfer amount of EPF and Death case to resigned/retired employees
• Ensure employee personal information is captured from various forms and document provided in MS Excel and provide to HRMS (Human Resource Management & Payroll System) updating in records
• Ensure employees Personal file is created and stored in proper rack as well soft copy is also created
• Reviewed personnel records to determine names, rates of pay, occupations of new hires and changes in wage rates
• Maintained confidentiality of employee records and payroll information
• Maintaining database for employees, Maintaining Legal MIS
• Maintaining MIS of Joiners, Resigned & Offer, Salary Input MIS, Attrition, keeping track of offers etc
• Preparing Monthly MIS on Head Count and Manpower cost
• Comparing Actual cost with budgeted cost on monthly basis and submitting variance report if any with justification to board
• Data analysis for Monthly MIS report corresponding to headcount, attrition, penetration reports and HR dashboards for monthly reviews
• Incentive compilation, auditing for smooth and accurate processing
• Launched HRMS portal to all information for supervisor and employees
• Internal & External Audits, with 100% positive result
• Draft, modify and implement company policies
• Ensure employees Personal file is created and stored in proper rack as well soft copy is also created
• Ensure employee's personal file updating on promotion / increment / transfer / disciplinary action