ARUN THAPAR

• Leadership Talent Acquisition
• Key KPI's & accomplishment:
• Responsible to lead a high performance team to meet hiring matrices including Diversity, Source Mix, CPH, Per Hire wage cost, Backfill Wage cost, Hiring TATs
• Successfully fulfiled senior managerial roles across Travel & BFSI for India and Philippines.
• Skills hired for – Travel & Banking, Financial Services (AML, KYC, Mortgage)
• Working with cross functional teams including BHR, LA, C&B, Pricing, Solutions as well as Business Unit level leaders to create hiring strategies.
• Mentor and coach team members to build capabilities and efficiencies.
• Drive delivery time of 90% while maintaining diversity hiring at 30%; CPH at 42,000/- at 12% Vendor contribution.
• Leveraged global ATS along with integration & Adoption to Success Factors HRMS.

• Interacted with customers and clients to identify business needs and requirements.
• Addressed and resolved technical, financial, and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
• Met with project stakeholders on regular basis to assess progress and make adjustments.
• Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
• Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.
• Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.
• Participated in pilot tests and revised programs based on feedback and results.
• Built teams to address project goals and objectives for multiple projects.
• Led a team of 30 TA professionals to manage hiring across all levels i.e. Frontline, Lateral, Leadership & Campus for Mumbai, Pune and Chandigarh locations for the Financial Markets/BFS and Customer Operations BU with an Average TAT of 92% annually and less than 20% dependency on vendor partners.
• Skillsets for Financial Markets/BFS – Settlements, Confirmations, Reconciliation, KYC, Exchange Trade Derivatives (ETD), Ref Data, Billing & brokerage and more.
• Skillsets for Customer Operations – Telecom .

CAMPUS:

• Spear headed end to end hiring and planning for Campus/B schools for all verticals i.e. Financial Markets, Digital analytics, Technology, CO & HR across India for
• Instrumental in Campus Branding & Industry Academia Initiatives.

• Key Responsibility Areas: Talent Acquisition:
• Managing sourcing, screening and conducting end to end recruitment within defined time lines.
• Instrumental in implementing new referral schemes and creating awareness of same through Internal Communication (Branding) with an overall target of 30% joiners annually through referral program.
• Liaising with current and new vendors and ensuring closures.

• Key Responsibility Areas: Talent Acquisition:
• Led a team of 7 members to meet targets i.e. 40% joiners through employee referral program.
• The team is effective in sourcing through various channels.
• Led the Employee Referral Program (Rapper) for WNS Mumbai.