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Aishwarya Banjara

Hyderabad

Summary

People Strategy & Advisory Leader with nearly 20 years of experience driving workforce transformation, succession planning, early careers strategy, and employee experience for multinational Organization. Proven expertise in designing and executing global people strategies, DEI initiatives, and HR analytics-driven decision-making. Successfully led initiatives for 25,000+ employees and managing a $10M budget, aligning business and talent strategy to enhance engagement, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Vice President – Global

HSBC
07.2017 - Current

People Strategy & Workforce Transformation

  • Developed and executed succession planning frameworks, ensuring leadership readiness across global operations.
  • Designed & delivered DEI strategies informed by employee satisfaction surveys, strengthening inclusivity and engagement.
  • Created a People Strategy Delivery Matrix, defining success measures and tracking the impact of the initiatives.
  • Partnered with senior leadership to drive employee engagement and experience initiatives across 25,000+ employees globally


Early Careers & Leadership Development

  • Designed & launched the Operations Graduate Programme, building a structured early-career talent pipeline to accelerate workforce readiness for middle management.
  • Redesigned & launched the Horizons Programme, a short-term assignment initiative that bridges critical skill gaps and prepares high-potential talent for leadership roles.
  • Designed and embedded structured career progression models to ensure retention and mobility of top early-career talent.

    Advisory & Stakeholder Management
  • Acted as People Experience Consultant for businesses within Operations, guiding them in designing and executing people strategies.
  • Managed a $10 million people strategy budget, optimizing investments in early careers programs, talent development, and DEI initiatives.
  • Collaborated with senior leaders across regions to localize and implement global talent strategies.

Manager

HSBC
05.2015 - 07.2017

Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning
• Designed and implemented the Knowledge Management Framework for Global Operations, ensuring structured knowledge capture and dissemination.
• Led knowledge validation and standards enforcement, enabling employees to easily access critical business insights.
• Conducted global business needs assessments to identify the best solutions for onboarding new teams onto the Knowledge Management Platform.
Program Management & Deployment
• Led the rollout of the Knowledge Management Programme across multiple business regions and service lines.
• Provided implementation support and advisory, ensuring seamless knowledge-sharing across global teams.
• Monitored deployment progress and impact, identifying potential barriers and designing interventions for successful adoption.
• Engaged with business service leads to prioritize high-impact regions, ensuring the platform provided operational value.

Assistant Manager

Global Mobility, HSBC, Investigator
08.2009 - 04.2015
  • Created training content for Global Mobility Central Operations to ensure standard training approach
  • Created content for HR academy for Global Mobility
  • Delivered training to new joiners & relationship managers across different regional hubs (HK, UK, Mexico &
  • Uffalo)
  • Created Standard Operating Procedures for Global Mobility Central Operations
  • Responsible for ensuring that the group’s expatriates (assignee) have a smooth transition in their movement
  • Ensuring that the assignees are offered all benefits and are paid in accordance with the groups HR
  • Policies
  • Respond to Senior Level expats on their queries/complaints/grievances relating to various activities of HR (Performance management, Pay, Benefits)
  • Ccomplishments
  • Created over 80 SOP's for Global Mobility Central Operations
  • Played a critical role in process re-engineering (green belt project)
  • Accredited process trainer for Global Mobility
  • Ebit Card Fraud

Email Banking Executive

HSBC
06.2006 - 07.2009

Bank of America Continuum Solutions
04.2005 - 05.2006

Education

MBA - Human Resources

Annamalai University
05.2011 - 05.2013

B.Com -

Osmania University
06.2003 - 04.2005

Timeline

Vice President – Global

HSBC
07.2017 - Current

Manager

HSBC
05.2015 - 07.2017

MBA - Human Resources

Annamalai University
05.2011 - 05.2013

Assistant Manager

Global Mobility, HSBC, Investigator
08.2009 - 04.2015

Email Banking Executive

HSBC
06.2006 - 07.2009

Bank of America Continuum Solutions
04.2005 - 05.2006

B.Com -

Osmania University
06.2003 - 04.2005
Aishwarya Banjara