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Arunkumar Kalaiselvam

Chennai

Summary

13 years of Operational Experience in HR Services across major geographies with exposure to planning, organizing, transition Projects, Records Management, HR tech project implementation, Quality control and data analysis.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Vice President -HR Operations

Barclays
Chennai
10.2021 - Current
  • Regional Service Delivery Manager ensuring efficient operations including Contract creation, Background screening and Hiring updates across APAC, India, US, and Uk.
  • Successful transition of Global Programmatic team. c15 FTEs.
  • Successfully onboarded c4500 Programmatic hire globally in 2023/ 2024.
  • Governing the screening policies proposed by Legal & Business, Managing Suspension and Termination Process in contradiction of Screening Policy.
  • Leads and deliver on lifecycle processes in partnership with Cyclical Service Delivery Leads (Eg. Promotion, Performance, Talent Management, Rewards etc.)
  • Proactively navigates through the relevant stakeholders matrix to solve complex queries,projects, change and transformation.
  • Work in partnership across the D&A team and wider HRTCs to translates business needs into best in class HR solutions.
  • Successfully planned and implemented stronger Talent Acquisition SLA's & delivery models.
  • Identified issues with production,workforce and pipeline clearances through adaptions of "Active Ops" tool. Ensured the teams are in top 5 ranking in the monthly rigor reports.

Senior Executive

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
02.2011 - 09.2021
  • Manage 20 member teams responsible for Mobility Compliance and Immigration processing.
  • Reduced email iteration between case processors and end-users.

1) Emails correspondence on an average used to happen for every case. Reduced the iteration count by conducting briefing sessions before the associate starts sharing necessary documents.

2) Email iteration per case is now 2 emails per case.

  • Improvement CSAT scores from 2.2 to 3.65 using GAMBA tool, Value stream mapping, and Briefing session.
  • Helped in onboarding in-house application for UK, US, Row Compliance, APAC, and ME countries with the help of IT team.

Education

MBA - Human Resource And Marketing

Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Chennai
07-2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Madha Engineering College
Chennai
11-2007

Skills

  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Project Management
  • Operations Management
  • Issue Resolution Skills
  • Transition
  • People Management
  • Records Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Onboarding & BGV (Back Ground Verification)
  • Control & Checks Management
  • Head count/ Resource Management

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Accomplishments

  • Awarded HR exceptional award in successful transition of Global Programmatic hire process to offshore in 2023 and produced 100% results with zero defect's.
  • Awarded as “Associate of the Year 2013” for successful Implementing In-house application for H-1B new, L to H conversion and H-1B extension.
  • Awarded as “Champ Icons for the month of November 2012” for improving accuracy level with the new audit model.
  • Awarded as “Best Team for Q4 - 2017” for in housing few process in CE region which resulted in hard dollar savings.

Affiliations

  • Involved in Regulatory Project - US / UK
  • Involved in Data retention project - Global
  • Involved in requirement gathering, CR, discussion on new tool implementation for Talent acquisition
  • Involved in HR record data migration to new tool
  • Involved in EMEA transition to offshore

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Assistant Vice President -HR Operations

Barclays
10.2021 - Current

Senior Executive

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2011 - 09.2021

MBA - Human Resource And Marketing

Rajalakshmi Engineering College

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Madha Engineering College
Arunkumar Kalaiselvam