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Jesaanto Reny Edwin

Human Resources Professional
Bengaluru,Karnataka

Summary

I'm a HR professional with ~5+ years of domain experience in recruitment, HR operations and business partnering. I've worked with 0-1 startups, single-handedly set up the Talent, HR and Admin functions.


I'm passionately working towards redefining the usual human resource management into an exciting experience to create a better workplace environment and experimenting on increasing employee happiness quotient.

Work History

Human Resources Lead

Flam (https://flamapp.com/)
Bangalore
04.2022 - 05.2023

At Flam, I led the HR and Admin, IT and Finance function, part of the Leadership team at Flam. I work directly with the founders

My key responsibilities include:

  • Talent Management (Recruitment and entire employee life cycle management including On-boarding & Off-boarding)
  • Performance Management (Set up performance evaluation metrics & assessments for the entire org) -Organizational Development (Org culture change, OKR implementation & adoption,Succession Planning, Leadership Development)
  • Successfully implemented Org level and team level OKR's
  • Setting up HR Policies & Procedures, letters from scratch for start-ups
  • Compensation and Benefits (Processing payroll, Introduced Flexi Benefit Plan for Tax savings, Employee Benefits Planning) -
  • Handling Employee Relations and Training and Development,
  • My Ad-hoc projects include handing HRIS, IT, office finances, labor relations, office administration, vendor management, online and offline community management, change management and product support.

Achievements:

1. Built a team of 60+ in a span of 6 months with 25 Engineers and 20 Design folks, including marketing and sales roles without vendor support

2. Increased the retention percentage to ~90% and Referrals to a ~22%, reduced the hiring cost by 80% in the first quarter

3. Employee Engagement (Increased the employee happiness quotient from 20% to 80% over 3 months)

4. Employee Engagement (Increased the employee happiness quotient from 20% to 80% over 3 months)

5.Solely planned and executed more than 4+Offsites, Annual meets, 5+ in-house activities and events

HR Executive

PagarBook (https://pagarbook.com/)
Bangalore
06.2020 - 03.2022

At PagarBook, I worked as HR Executive, directly reported to founders', built and spearheaded the HR, Admin and finance functions. I joined them at an early stage and scaled the team to ~650+ employees.

My key responsibilities include:

  • Talent Management - (Recruitment and entire employee life cycle management, Onboarding and Off-boarding)
  • Compensation & Benefits - Handled payroll for 650+ employees with 3P vendors, introduced Flexi Benefits Plan for tax savings.
  • Performance Management : Performance Evaluation & Assessments (set up evaluations and assessments for different functions in the org)
  • Organization Change & development ( Organization Culture development, HR automations)
  • Setting up HR Policies & Procedures, letters from scratch for start-ups
  • Employee Engagement - Off-sites and Online activities
  • My Ad-hoc projects include vendor management, social media management, employer branding and sales.

Achievements:

1.Built the initial sales and customer support function and scaled it to 250+ employees over one quarter. Built and handled a team of 10 HR's and admin.

2.Maintained the employee happiness quotient above 60% throughout

3.Arranged around 15+ parties, all-hands, and company anniversaries solely.

Talent Acquisition Partner

cult.fit
Bangalore
10.2019 - 06.2020

I worked as Talent Acquisition Partner at cult.fit(cure.fit)

My key responsibilities included:

  • Sourcing for tech, non-tech and product roles from talent portals, social media and networks.
  • Talent Mapping to build a talent database
  • Vendor management- handled 10+ vendors for recruitment
  • Stakeholder management- Liaison between leadership and HR team
  • Employer Branding

Channel Specialist

Google
Bangalore
07.2018 - 10.2019

I worked as Channel Specialist at Google(via Cognizant)
My key responsibilities included:

  • Talent Mapping
  • Talent research and sourcing profiles across all levels for Engineering and Global Business Operations from APAC, EMEA and North America locations.
  • Experienced in sourcing profiles for functions like IT, HR, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Business Development & Business Strategy.
    Tools used for sourcing profiles are LinkedIn, internal hiring tools and open web search.
  • Market mapping and Industry mapping for leadership roles to have a better perspective.
  • My Ad-hoc projects included handling the CSR activity for the 150 member Google People Ops team.

Achievements:

1. Been awarded multiple times for 100% productivity achievement over and above.

2. Hosted a CSR activity for which I was featured in the company's annual newsletter along with appreciation and a cash reward.

Human Resources Intern

HGS - Hinduja Global Solutions
Bangalore
05.2017 - 08.2017

Education

MBA - Marketing And Human ResourcesManagement, General Management

CMS Business School, Jain University
Bangalore, KA
06.2016 - 05.2018

Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computer Science

INDIAN ACADEMY GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS
Bangalore, KA
05.2013 - 05.2016

Skills

    Strategic Human Resource Planning

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Accomplishments

  • Rewarded Ace of Rookies - September’18 - Cognizant (Google)
  • Rewarded Ace of Rookies - November’18 - Cognizant (Google)
  • Rewarded Spotlight - February '19 - Cognizant (Google)
  • Rewarded Spotlight - April '19 - Cognizant (Google)
  • Merit Scholarship from Karnataka State Government for MBA course

Certification

IIM Shillong, Strategic Human Resource Management

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