SOWMYA SRI ALURI
Human Resource
Chennai
Summary
An energetic, self-motivated and hard-working Human Resource Professional with over 15 years of rich and comprehensive experience in HR Generalist and Facilities like Recruitment, On Boarding, New Hire Orientation, Attendance Management, Payroll, HRMIS, HR ERP Tools, Data & Analytics, Employee Grievances, Employee Engagement, Training & Development, Facility Management, Office Administration and Legal Compliance.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
HR Service Excellence Analyst (Contract)
Standard Chartered Bank
Chennai
06.2021 - 05.2022
- Joined on direct payroll of SCB for contract of 12 months on exclusive project - Future Work Now
- Planning and execution on future ways of working
- Digital transformation
- Employee/Advisor Experience Survey/Interviews
- Action Points on Employee Feedback
- Promoting and Implementing A3 Working model
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.
- Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
DGM - HR & Admin
Aquaconnect
Chennai
11.2019 - 06.2021
- Handling a role of department head for HR, Admin, Facility and Legal
- Taken the ownership of evolvement of a operational function within the Talent (HR) team
- Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
- Partner with Talent leadership and specialty groups, including People Strategy, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development and other people teams to anchor and manage key people projects
- Establish a Talent analytics framework to identify and mitigate risks, leverage opportunities and determine people areas of focus
- Performed duties in accordance with all applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment
- Streamlined HR efficiencies, coordinated new hire orientations and provided onboarding and training for 80 new employees
- Collaborated with legal and compliance teams to review paperwork, obtain feedback and procure available information for new training processes
- Liaised between multiple business divisions to improve communications
- Developed succession plans and promotion paths for all staff
- Designed, formulated and Implemented standardized programs and policies, driving smooth operations
- Oversaw legal compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations in addition to compliance with company policies and procedures
- Advised decision-makers on complex and confidential matters ranging from performance management to employee relations issues
- Guided leaders and employees on company policies, programs, benefits, and salary administration
- Accurately maintained payroll and benefits for 90 employees in various locations and diminished financial discrepancies
- Discovered and resolved complex employee issues that affected management and business decisions
- Led and provided direction for human resources team
- Educated management on successful policy implementation and enforcement actions to prevent employee legal entanglements
- Consistently administering compensation plans and recommending changes as necessary
- Periodic review of exiting policies and communicate change promptly
- Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
HR Business Partner
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
11.2017 - 11.2019
- Key ownership in implementation of Business strategies and adherence to company policies/practices
- Bringing in the new talent through Talent Acquisition
- Organize employee Rewards and Recognition as per the policy
- Ensuring performance appraisal & merit increase implementation as per defined process and agreed calendar
- Talent Management with innovative engagement strategies to focus on reducing attrition through effective employee engagement
- Monthly attrition analysis to track and address undesirable attrition
- Assist team to ensure effective roll-out of all organization wide HR initiatives
- Investigated and liaised with legal department to respond to complaints of harassment, discrimination, employee grievances and other sensitive issues and prepared position statements for EEOC.
- Identified HR training needs and conducted training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity and within company to reach business goals.
- Maintained confidential nature of employee and company proprietary and privileged information used or observed in course of performing job duties.
- Promoted and enabled necessary changes to align operations with strategic plans.
- Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement.
- Reduced process lags by accurately managing confidential records for staff members.
- Integrated talent management process to include detailed analysis of potential talent gaps and development of career plans to identify and retain current talent and attract outside talent to business.
- Served as company representative at CSR Activities to promote company objectives.
- Implemented cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems.
- New Initiative - Created Monthly Employee Engagement Calendar
Manager - HR & Facility
Cortex Consultants LLC
Chennai
03.2016 - 03.2017
- Handling Operations of US, Canada and India Process
- Handled the complete Recruitment Life Cycle
- Expertise in end-to-end HR activities
- Talent Acquisition & Management
- On – Boarding & Induction
- Compensation/Benefits
- Payroll Management
- Employee Engagement, Reward & Recognition
- HR Operations/ Maintenance of Database (MIS)
- Performance Management System
- Employee Retention
- Office Administration
- Facility Management
HR Officer
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
04.2014 - 02.2016
Sr. Tech Support Officer
HCL Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
03.2012 - 07.2013
Sr. HR Executive
Vani Pharma Labs Limited
Hyderabad
07.2011 - 03.2012
HR Executive
Serco BPO Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
06.2010 - 07.2011
HR Executive
Apex Knowledge Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
07.2007 - 12.2009
Education
B.Com -
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Guntur 06.2004 - 03.2007
Skills
Talent Management
Learning & Development
Succession Planning
Compensation and Benefits
Human Resource Information System
HR Data and Analytics
Facility Management
Office Administration
Accomplishments
- Worked for Multiple Industries such as KPO, BPO, IT, ITES, Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing
- Worked in both Product based and Service based Organizations
- Worked for Multinational Companies as well the Startups
- Supervised team of 5 member
- Hired the First pilot batch for Google Android Development
- Hired 60 Fresher Batch with in TAT of 15 Days
- Star Performer in Recruitment
- Handled 1000 Employee Payroll
- Expertise in creating new HR Policies
- Capable to Handle multiple departments and Regional Role – Complete South operations (5 States)
- Excellent Salary Negotiation Skills
- Good in employee retention planning
- Very good at Budget planning and implementation
- Multi linguistic
- Open for Travel
Timeline
HR Service Excellence Analyst (Contract)
Standard Chartered Bank
06.2021 - 05.2022
DGM - HR & Admin
Aquaconnect
11.2019 - 06.2021
HR Business Partner
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd
11.2017 - 11.2019
Manager - HR & Facility
Cortex Consultants LLC
03.2016 - 03.2017
HR Officer
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd
04.2014 - 02.2016
Sr. Tech Support Officer
HCL Technologies Pvt. Ltd
03.2012 - 07.2013
Sr. HR Executive
Vani Pharma Labs Limited
07.2011 - 03.2012
HR Executive
Serco BPO Pvt. Ltd
06.2010 - 07.2011
HR Executive
Apex Knowledge Technologies Pvt. Ltd
07.2007 - 12.2009
B.Com -
Acharya Nagarjuna University
06.2004 - 03.2007
Event Management
Expertise in organizing and hosting the events