MANOAJ LAZAR
Talent Acquisition
Chennai,Tamil Nadu
Summary
Successful Human Resources professional with a focus on the IT and IT-enabled industries, showcasing a diverse background in technology, recruitment, client relationship, resource management, and employee relations. Over 19 years of experience in the human resource industry, bringing expertise in talent acquisition and a broad understanding of overseeing the work of recruitment and operations executives to ensure consistent revenue generation. Possesses remarkable knowledge of sourcing both IT and non-IT skills, including niche skills. Additionally, has over 6 years of expertise in hiring actuaries across various levels and specializes in finance and accounting recruitment. Most recent role dedicated to hiring for FNA, actuarial, and catastrophe modeling positions.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Manager – HR (Talent Acquisition)
RR Donnelley
Chennai
03.2022 - Current
- Hiring Leader for Financial Management Services, Shared Services Center, Research and Analytics and Information Technology
- Managing a team of recruiters and hiring for all areas of FNA, US Retirement Services, Property Accounting, Medical Coders, Underwriters, Actuarial, Procurement, IT Governance and Cybersecurity and Information Technology
- Campus Hire Lead for RRD GOC - Chennai
Group Manager – HR (Talent Acquisition Group)
WNS Global Services
07.2015 - 03.2022
- Actuarial Hiring leader – Pan India
- Hiring leader for Chennai location – F&A and BFS
- Lateral Hiring – Pan India
- WNS Sports lead - Chennai
- Supported staff with developing professional skills and abilities, uplifting team performance.
- Improved staffing during busy periods by creating employee schedules and monitoring call-outs.
Asst Manager – Corporate Resource Management
Syntel Ltd.
09.2013 - 04.2015
- Company Overview: http://www.syntelinc.com
- Led three corporate functions across Syntel
- Supported the data analytics team
- Involved in process automation and champion the Visa COE automation at Syntel
- Managed close interaction with IS to facilitate system enhancements and handled UATs
- Key member in framing the rules and regulations for Offshore rotation
- Provided analysis and reports/dashboards on all Offshore Visas
- Supported in automating the entire VISA COE
- SCALE is the voluntary employee rotation sub-system at Syntel, handles all employees below and above 18 months in an account to go through rotation
- Successfully handle the employee release and movement from donor to recipient for all SCALE applications
- Handled end to end resource management for all Support Functions across Syntel
- Managed Bench Management of resources under Support
- Maintained regular connect with Recruitment and Key Stakeholders for Support staffing
- Http://www.syntelinc.com
Asst Manager – PDAC (Resource Management)
Syntel Ltd.
08.2011 - 09.2013
- Company Overview: http://www.syntelinc.com
- Resource Management for BNFS vertical, handling about 914 resources independently
- Offshore Bench management for a delivery unit under BNFS
- Onsite Bench management for entire BNFS
- Supported location and allocation SPOC for Trainees and H1 SPOC for entire BNFS vertical at Chennai
- Handled internal fulfillment for DU via bench resourcing, pull from billability, rotation, cross vertical movement
- Http://www.syntelinc.com
Asst Manager – Recruitment
Syntel Ltd.
06.2008 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: http://www.syntelinc.com
- Led all the BNFS recruiters based of Chennai location
- Single handedly tunneled and fulfilled all practice requirements under Capital Markets and Banking from 2008 till August 2010(This fulfillment is on niche skills and technologies under the BNFS domain)
- Successfully hired for the Cards and Payments sub-vertical, consists of both niche and vanilla skills hiring and is primarily on technology
- Aided the resource management team in allocating resources for the C&P sub-vertical
- Oversaw all walk-in drives happening out of Chennai for BNFS
- Supported MIS structure of BNFS, handled the complete data for Chennai including creating reports, pipelines and dashboards for the assigned vertical
- Key member in the Chennai Korparate Katalyst, a Syntel program which deals with the essence of fun at work
- Conducted and managed many events outside and inside SYNTEL to enhance the FUN part while working
- Http://www.syntelinc.com
Manager – Staffing and Client Relationship
Fog Horn INC.
05.2005 - 05.2008
- Company Overview: http://www.foghorninc.com
- Increased client base (all Tier 1 firms) of FogHorn three folds within the first 6 months of joining
- Maintained high hit-rates with technical requirements because of previous technical knowledge
- Have conducted technical interviews across various niche skills before the resource is passed on to the client
- Successfully met targets consistently throughout my time here
- Achieved revenue generation in excess of 20 Million
- Implemented Candidate Tracking funnels and performance grids
- Increased Top Line by getting and delivering on contracting
- Http://www.foghorninc.com
Mail Migration Specialist – Information Systems
Sundram Fasteners
01.2005 - 04.2005
- Company Overview: http://www.sundram.com
- Successfully migrated Exchange servers to Linux (Mail Server Centralization) within a short span of time across 5 plants at different geographical locations
- Supported as key member of the Legacy Systems to SAP migration team
- Acted as a single point contact for the Plant's Data Center during shifts
- Http://www.sundram.com
HPUX Admin
Sundram Fasteners
01.2004 - 12.2004
- Company Overview: http://www.sundram.com
- Managed automated Backup, Recovery and Updating on all HPUX servers across plants
- Http://www.sundram.com
Administrator – Enterprise Data Processing
Sundram Fasteners
07.2003 - 12.2003
- Company Overview: http://www.sundram.com
- Http://www.sundram.com
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics
University of Madras
Chennai 04.1999 - 03.2003
Skills
Talent Acquisition
Human resources management
Organizational improvement
Market analysis
Talent development
Strategic planning
Strategic Sourcing
Leadership Hiring
Talent Acquisition
Timeline
Senior Manager – HR (Talent Acquisition)
RR Donnelley
03.2022 - Current
Group Manager – HR (Talent Acquisition Group)
WNS Global Services
07.2015 - 03.2022
Asst Manager – Corporate Resource Management
Syntel Ltd.
09.2013 - 04.2015
Asst Manager – PDAC (Resource Management)
Syntel Ltd.
08.2011 - 09.2013
Asst Manager – Recruitment
Syntel Ltd.
06.2008 - 08.2011
Manager – Staffing and Client Relationship
Fog Horn INC.
05.2005 - 05.2008
Mail Migration Specialist – Information Systems
Sundram Fasteners
01.2005 - 04.2005
HPUX Admin
Sundram Fasteners
01.2004 - 12.2004
Administrator – Enterprise Data Processing
Sundram Fasteners
07.2003 - 12.2003
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics
University of Madras
04.1999 - 03.2003
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