Neha Nag Choudhary

Khatabook, established in 2019, provides fintech solutions to the MSME sector in India from managing ledger, catalogue, and inventory, to providing lending solutions. The company is backed by investors like Sequoia, DST, etc. and is currently valued at US $500 million.

Currently managing Talent Acquisition, for on-roll and off-roll employees of Khatabook and Bizanalyst.

• Managing a team of 7+ members from responsible for Non-Tech, Customer Success, Channel Sales and Field Sales hiring in Bangalore and Mumbai.

• Working closely with COO, CEO, and SVPs (vertical heads) with respect to prioritization of roles, providing market research, and talent long-lists.

• Worked closely with VCs like Sequoia and DST to close key leadership roles in the lending space .

• Delivered improved numbers in diversity hiring from 10% to 18% with major diversity starting in the Non Tech vertical.

• Supported the management team in building the Financial Services from scratch by identifying the FinServ Head and Collections Head under which the entire team of Field Sales and Collections was built.

• The hiring team has delivered a headcount of 100+ off-roll hires for Field Sales, 150+ hires in Channel Sales, and 250+ off-roll hires in Customer Success with the target for 2023 reaching a headcount of 500+.

• Ran Academy Model for Hire-Train-Deploy model with respect to campus hires for Customer Success and FinServ Field Sales hiring.

• Increased Employee Referral contribution for Non-Tech as well as Off-Roll hiring.

• Built Academy model (hire-train-deploy) model for the Customer Success team.

• Cut down vendor cost from 55% to less than 20%.

• Implemented TurboHire ATS in 3 weeks .

• Set up teams from scratch to support Lending hiring while also contributing to hiring mid- and senior-level hires /Leadership hirings.

• Managed entire North , South and East region hirings for FMCG and Fresh vertical.
• Networked with other professionals and organizations to expand contacts and opportunities.
• Handled a team size of 3 recruiters here .
• Worked with Business Heads closely to close the open requisitions , have managed all review calls weekly basis with all the stakeholders, with data in place .
• Conducted telephone and in-person interviews to assess candidate experience and qualifications.
• Implemented innovative recruitment strategies to increase number of high-quality job applicants.

• Joined Meesho at an early stage , where I have contributed to setup the HR team , Sales , Business , category teams .
• Worked on various projects - Business development for PAN India , Category Managers, Program Manager , Design and Marketing roles.
• Managed Vendors for all offrole and onrole hirings .
• POC for Non Tech roles , front facing the stakeholders on hiring updates .
• Developed and maintained applicant tracking system, tracking all job openings, applicants and interviewing activity.
• Negotiated on vendor agreements , CTC discussions and closed within Budgets shared.
• Worked with the hiring managers to create JD's for the open reqs, have been working on an IC role here wherein i have managed sourcing , scheduling , stakeholder management , data , CTC discussions all by myself for the roles assigned to me .
• Worked on Employer branding and Candidate experience projects as well .
• Well versed with recruitment portals like naukri , IIM jobs , Linkedin
• Worked on Employee referral projects as well to get more diverse and skilled talents across verticals.

• Joined Flipkart as a consultant , to manage the 3rd party resources - Intelenet Payroll.
• Transitioned from HRBP role to TA recruiter within 3 months of joining Flipkart , wherein i was responsible for hiring all junior associates , Contract hires , Data analysts for all categories like Home , Lifestyle , Marketplace , Books etc.
• Was responsible for sourcing , screening , scheduling interviews , working with stakeholders on the feedbacks of profiles , interviews , closures , CTC discussions and offer roll out .
• Reduced Vendor dependency as 90% closures were done by active sourcing inhouse .
• Built strong relationships with internal and external candidates to ensure an excellent hiring experience.
• Collaborated with managers to identify and address employee relations issues.
• Well versed with Bulk hirings , and recruitment portals like Naukri , Asaan Jobs , Indeed , Monster etc .