Rashmi Gaikawad

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for Front office Hiring at BNY
• Partner with hiring managers across multiple business units in the Investment Services sector to understand product, technical, and business needs.
• Deliver a best-in-class experience for candidates and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with company values and hiring standards.
• Source and evaluate top-tier talent from various platforms, including BNY's ATS (ORC), LinkedIn, internal databases, and employee referrals.
• Assess candidates' skills, technologies, experience, compensation, and availability for active and passive profiles.
• Lead interview scheduling and coordination, ensuring a seamless process from screening to offer.
• Provide strategic market intelligence reports on hiring trends, talent availability, and competitor benchmarking to support data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate on recruitment strategy development and continuous process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and compliance.
• Maintain strong post-offer engagement to boost on-boarding conversion rates .
• Proficient in using multiple Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruitment tools

• Served as the primary point of contact for top-tier investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), and MUFG Bank.
• Managed end-to-end recruitment processes for both IT and non-IT roles, overseeing the hiring of senior-level candidates across various functions.
• Collaborated closely with various account POC to understand hiring needs, develop strategic recruitment plans.
• Led and mentored a team of recruiters, fostering a collaborative environment to achieve recruitment targets and enhance team performance.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills, effectively liaising with clients and candidates to facilitate smooth hiring processes.

• Responsible for Campus & lateral recruitments for teams like customer success, sales & engineering.
• Partnered with leadership to address recruitment challenges and develop sourcing strategies.
• Monitored employee attendance and performance, addressing issues in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Facilitated smooth onboarding processes for new hires, leading to faster integration into the workplace culture.

(A)HSBC,(Allegis) Pune

April 2019 to Nov 2019

Ø Taking care of IT requirements like Java Developer, AS400 developer, Testing, Kafka developer, Production support, Business Analyst & Project management roles.

Credit Suisse (Allegis) , Pune

Dec' 2016- April 2019

Roles and Responsibilities

Ø Source Channels: Utilizing sourcing aids like Taleo (ATS) /LinkedIn /Naukri / IIM jobs/ Employee referral/Internal Mobility.

Ø Working for Risk ,Risk Change, Front Office , Compliance & Finance Division for the below skillsets/roles -

· Risk – Credit Risk, market risk, Enterprise risk, Investment Suitability, Business Support, FLDS.

· Quants/Quantitative Analysis - Model Development / Validation, Model Auditor & supported MRM, CRM, Ops Risk Management, GRM, EORM, GM Controls, Governance, Process, and Controls division.

· Front Office – Equity research, Financial accounting.

· Risk Change – Business Analyst, Project manager, Control Oversight, (RPA), BCM, Portfolio Management, PMO

· Compliance (CCRO) – Control Testing and Assurance.

· Finance – Product control, legal entity controller, Data Scientist, Sourcing & Vendor Management.

Ø Stakeholder Management : Managing business expectation in terms of roles, availability of talent pool, scheduling & coordinating interviews, status reporting etc.

Ø Market mapping & market intelligence.

Ø Managing vendor partners.

Ø Interviews : Accessing the candidate with initial pre-screening & checking fitment.

Ø Compensation Discussions : Liaising with candidates & business on salary decision.

Ø Documentation & Offers : Collecting & verifying basic documents, extending of verbal offers.

Ø Following up with the candidates for the on-boarding formalities.

Achievements:

• Have been awarded as one of the top recruiters amongst 84000 registered recruiters by IIM Jobs.
• Successfully delivered various market intelligence reports for IT & Non IT divisions.

• Worked as a Sr. Consultant- Recruitment in BFSI, ITES and IT domain.
• Sourcing candidates from Job Portals, Referencing, LinkedIn and other different channels.

• Worked as HR consultant in BFSI, ITES, IT, Media and advertisement domains.
• Daily & weekly reporting of sourcing on active roles/closed roles/candidates status.