CHRO/Talent Advisor/HR Tech Enthusiast/ OD & People Scale-up Expert
Gurgaon,HR
Summary
Atul has played a key role in Culture building, Organisational Design and people analytics in diverse industries working alongside and leading global teams with multi- cultural sensitivity. He has worked in a variety of sectors including Technology, BFSI, Energy, Manufacturing, Consulting and Professional Services.
Possesses a clear understanding of the industry global HR trends with the distinction of instituting quality practices to achieve business excellence. Successfully scaled up systems and processes as growth enabler and proven ability in business strategy & planning.
With his consulting experience at Hexaware, IBM and PwC, Atul built a strong ability to analyse key business challenges, evolve and align HR strategy through HR Transformation and Digital HR initiatives to meet short term and long term challenges/ goals of global organisations.
Involved in for developing the HR Strategy and for leading the change towards Institutionalising processes and helping in a rapid scale up through availability of talent and establishing an "Employee Value Proposition".
Atul is passionate about topics related to Simplifying worklife through HR Technology. In the last few years, he has run multiple people interventions to help organisations and its leaders realising their potential. Have worked in a width on all facets of HR and related Technology within functions like Corporate HR, People Consulting, Shared Services and HR Technology Implementations.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
CHRO
SPICE MONEY LTD
01.2021 - 12.2024
Leading whole gamut of HR for Spice Money Limited across different business units including Banking & Payments, Lending, Travel, Wallet & Dairy and Commerce Business.
Being part of Management committee and NRC to lead over all people agenda.
Scaled up Organisation from 600 people to 2000 people team in the span of just 18 months.
Build the whole CXO team along with Chairman & CEO & nurtured second layer of leadership.
2 year in row Spice Money been certified as 'Great to Place to Work' including a top 50 spot in BFSI sector.
Rolled out Unique Incentive plan and Wealth plan to retain and reward people.
Rolled out 16 blocker Performance & Potential framework to evaluate Performance using OKR methodology.
Head - HR (Technology Entity)
OYO
09.2019 - 03.2020
HR Transformation - Designed org. structure and HR processes on Cloud HR systems like Oracle Fusion, Happay, Amber etc.
Set Up global Tech team with new centres in USA, Europe and Singapore with addition of 1200 people in record 4 months, taking to total head count of 3500 people.
Head HR - Managing a team of 40 people enriched with Industry Best HR practices across Technology Organisation.
Employee Digital Experience - Driving Digital HR agenda and digital employee experience across the organisation.
Rolled out Rewards & Benefits plan for retaining top talent.
Global Head - HR Ops & Digital Transformation
Puma Energy
02.2019 - 07.2019
HR Transformation - Designing organisation structure, shared services, Building and hiring best leaders, OD Interventions, Policy formulation, set up the structure and HR processes.
HR Operations (Shared Services) - Managing a global team of 40 people enriched with Industry Best practices. Setting up the Mumbai as a Global Capability Centre (GCC) for HR, Finance & IT catering to 48 countries and 8,000 people.
HR Technology - Rolling out new age HRMS and Tech products like, Workday, AI, ML, Chatbots, Analytics which covers all employee lifecycle processes (Recruitment to Exit).
Business aligned HR initiatives - Design Business aligned HR initiatives in consultation with Regional & Corporate team achieve business goals & design incentives. ESOPS and Wealth plans are few successful initiatives. Gamification of initiatives is one key area on which emphasis is laid to keep the employee engaged & self-motivated.
Head - HR & Transitions
PeopleStrong, India
11.2012 - 02.2019
HR Technology - Rolling out new HRMS, PeopleStrong & managing the overall project which covers all employee lifecycle processes.
HR Operations (Shared Services) - Managing a team of 30 people (comprising of Sr. Managers, Deputy Managers etc) handling HR Operations through HR Shared Services model. Set up 3 centres across India to take workforce from 300 to 3000.
HR Transformation - Designing shared services & running it through BOT (Built, Operate & Transfer) model, OD Interventions, Policy formulation, set up the structure & processes.
Business aligned HR initiatives - Design Business aligned HR initiatives in consultation with Marketing, Sales, finance and operations team (Regional & Corporate) to achieve business goals & design incentives. ESOPS and Wealth plans are few successful initiatives. Gamification of initiatives is laid to keep the employee engaged & self-motivated.
Attrition & Retention Management - Work on attrition analysis & devised strategy of Wealth Plan & Earn while you Learn program to retain top performers.
Sr. Business HR Consultant
PwC, India
12.2010 - 11.2012
Organization Design, Manpower Planning, HR BPR, HR Policy articulation for the 3 institutions.
HR transformation initiative including HR workflow Automation, HR dashboard etc. Implementing HR process changes and providing Innovative HR solutions to achieve project objective of improving employee productivity, HR cost reduction etc.
Sr. HR Solutions Consultant
IBM GBS, USA
05.2009 - 11.2010
Company Overview: Client: A global Industrial client with presence in 21 countries
Workforce planning (involving entire core and support functions for two major plants) and prepare a redeployment plan for the surplus staff to accommodate in the new area of business/ expansion plans for USA, Canada & Mexico.
Organization re-structuring and design to support various growth phases of the new formed company, Grade Structuring (involving IBM Job evaluation methodology).
Designing and operating the global shared services for IBM customer with technology implementation of PeopleSoft, and Successfactors.
Client: A global Industrial client with presence in 21 countries
Sr. Business Analyst
Hexaware Technologies, Singapore
05.2006 - 04.2009
Project 1- HR Technology Transformation, Singapore: 18 APAC Countries - HR BPR in the context of PeopleSoft HR implementation, Organization Design and Workforce Planning, PeopleSoft HR Functional Requirement Specification, role to position mapping and Change Management.
Project 2- OD & Learning Intervention: Global Bank, Switzerland - Conduct a skill gap analysis for the Indian Infrastructure Sector (in the context of PPP project) & prepare a capacity building plan (i.e. Curriculum development, training roll out plan etc.).
Project 3- Rollout of PeopleSoft HRMS: Global Energy Company, Chicago - Analysis of Requirement and AS-IS Document. Involved in the preparation of detail plan for Global Payroll & Benefits testing. Performed Functional testing for Benefits, AWF, GP.
Traveling : I love traveling and exploring new places, culture, people and nature.
Swimming : As a water man, my body feels energized, light and happy flowing in water
Reading /Practicing Spirituality : Finding path of my ultimate destination through spirituality. This helps synchronies my body, mind and soul together.