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Bhuvnesh Pant

Bhuvnesh Pant

Gurgaon

Summary

15+ years experienced professional, skilled in

developing, implementing, evaluating and

modifying compensation & benefits programs, policies, and procedures. Excellence in rendering benefit services to clients in various regions and ensured highest level of satisfaction.Handling internal stakeholders and external partners to develop and execute against a multi-year roadmap for benefit administration support across U.S region. Handled US Health Benefits, Transitions, Project Management. Strong exposure to project management skills and proven abilities to help design and implement tools/processes and/ data collection mechanisms and generate reporting

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Service Manager

Wipro HR Services
Gurugram
01.2024 - Current

Key Achievement

  • Handling a team of 13+ colleagues and rendering services to 50 fortune 500 companies such as Boeing, American Airlines, Archers Daniel's Midland, Phillip 66, McKesson, Cigna, Home Depot, Johnson Controls
  • Instrumental in building strong process controls and introduced improved business management routines for improving ticket SLA by 10% for a large size US client Team Management & Client Relationship Management
  • Managing client’s benefits administration processes like, Payroll, QMCSO, Employee Tickets, Health and Life Insurance enrollment, Annual Open Enrollment

Project Management | Annual Open Enrollment

  • SOP & Requirement Centralization Project –Documentation upload on a web-based tool – JAMA
  • RPA Automation – Application of RPA to all standard manual verification of electronic file verification process leading to reduced manual efforts by 90%

Process Management & Compliance

  • Managing payroll file delivery, vendor files, employee tickets, medical/life insurance enrollments, changes, deletions and shared personalized communication statements to employees
  • Adhering to compliance process including COBRA process administrations, direct billing and payments, QMCSO – child medical support orders & dependent verifications

Post Transition Support

  • Accountable for deliveries for implementation clients
  • Worked with the CAMs/PM and MSM to develop risk mitigation plans for all identified risks
  • Discussed project risks/escalations/ resolutions arising in the project with the onshore client teams and client stakeholders.

India Ops Manager & Benefits Ops Manager

WIPRO
Gurgaon
01.2014 - 01.2021

Transition Management

  • Created change management models & lead customer engagements for ensuring all stakeholders are aligned with Shared Services strategies & transition implementation approaches
  • Led and managed mid-level transition projects (offshore to onshore)
  • Managed stakeholder process (U.S and India) and transition progress updates
  • Created change orders and scope documentation for initiating the Transition projects
  • Reviewed progress on to the onshore teams and India resource managers
  • Worked with the India technology team for implementing new projects
  • Collaborated with the India training team for Transition projects to determine training requirements, planning training schedules and leading training.

Project Management

  • Managing clients and overall responsibility for effective project management, execution & delivery of large-scale assignments with high degree of client (internal & external) satisfaction for the aligned industry verticals
  • Managed projects/processes and resources (both onshore & offshore)
  • Managed ongoing client business delivery and any special client requirements/escalations
  • Mentored on feedback sessions'; performance and resolution issues
  • Coaching for improvement; delivering effective feedback to the team members, understanding, and applying feedback; mentor BAs in both giving and receiving feedback; identify performance issues and work with BSM (onshore) to resolve issues effectively
  • Gathering requirements from the client, creating new processes, and taking ownership of implementations and trainings.
  • Post Transition Support: Accountable for deliveries for implementation clients
  • Worked with the CAMs/PM and MSM to develop risk mitigation plans for all identified risks
  • Discussed project risks/escalations/ resolutions arising in the project with the onshore client teams and client stakeholders.

Process Improvement and Compliance

  • Ensured adherence to the established Quality Standards by all teams and contribute to the quality Initiatives
  • Researched TBA system to identify data cleanup issues
  • Reviewed the HRO Best Practice Database and HRO TBA system databases and implement the relevant best practices
  • Monitored progress of Defects and Tasks assigned through Maestro.
  • Single point of contact for the clients, 3rd party Administrators and all internal Shared Services

BOA & (EBOA)

Aon Hewitt
01.2010 - 01.2014
  • Support onshore and offshore counter parts to analyze and resolve participant/plan administration issues
  • Managed various projects and critical processes while working as a part of Health & Welfare administration team for the client
  • Troubleshoot/ resolve workflows/edits and other critical activities like manual processes, acceptance testing
  • Identified opportunities for process improvements, automate, and/or standardize the process
  • Ensured all documentation projects are completed and stored in the client database within specified time limits
  • Ensured that no customer/client sensitive information/data is visible in the documentation for all clients in the unit and data security is maintained
  • Identify & escalate system issues, error trends impacting larger population and work with Client (Onshore-Offshore) & Technology team.

Subject Matter Expert - 3rd Party Collections

Key Aegis
Gurgaon
10.2006 - 12.2010
  • Managed a recoveries team of 8-10 business specialists for Bank Of America (U.K) & American Express (U.S) for delinquent as well as charge off credit cards collection
  • Experienced debt management expert engaged in 3rd party collections (bank cards, private label credit cards, telecom debt, education loans & auto delinquencies) for American Express
  • Handle collections on papers with age ranging from 90 days to 360days
  • Provide leadership to team in form of resident floor expert/ team leader back up & escalation calls point of contact along with conversion calls point of contact
  • Development and Implementation of Collection Strategies digging into historical data
  • Conducted various skill enhancement sessions for every team & dispelling their product related doubts
  • Mentored & trained new hires to drive performance through continuous monitoring & effective feedback
  • Maximized productivity by ensuring policy awareness and call quality control
  • Assessed customer complaints to maintain a high brand image Rolled out 'need based training' after analyzing customer feedback / complaints.

Education

Bachelor's of Arts -

Delhi University
01.2008

Skills

  • Team Management
  • Employee Strategic Planning
  • HR Project Management & Transitions
  • Operations Management
  • HR Operations
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Compliance Management
  • CSAT Management
  • Service Delivery Management
  • Operational Excellence

Awards & Trainings

  • Annual Platinum awards for consecutively 2 years in a row 2011 & 2012.
  • Benefit Wizard and Champion Award in Year 2013.
  • Platinum award for business excellence in 2014 & 2015
  • Attended managerial level trainings conducted internally in Aon Hewitt
  • MCI (Managing colleague issues), IM1, IM2, ASH (Anti Sexual Harassment), ATOM etc.
  • Quality 101
  • Lean 101
  • Data Privacy 101
  • Code of Business Conduct

Timeline

Sr. Service Manager

Wipro HR Services
01.2024 - Current

India Ops Manager & Benefits Ops Manager

WIPRO
01.2014 - 01.2021

BOA & (EBOA)

Aon Hewitt
01.2010 - 01.2014

Subject Matter Expert - 3rd Party Collections

Key Aegis
10.2006 - 12.2010

Bachelor's of Arts -

Delhi University
Bhuvnesh Pant