Sowparnika TM
Bengaluru
Summary
A passionate and seasoned Human Resource professional with over ten years experience in strategically partnering with business units to drive organizational success. Proven expertise in enabling the full spectrum of HR functions, fostering a positive work culture, and aligning HR initiatives with business objectives.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
HRBP - Manager
Entropik
Bengaluru
08.2021 - Current
- Talent Management - Initiated & organized pre-on boarding sessions for yet to joiners, enabled smooth on boarding process, conducted surveys to improvise process
- Introduced & implemented Keka HRMS portal across Organization to streamline operations, reduce cost & improve employee experience
- Interviewed prospective employees and provided input to TA team on hiring decisions
- Partnership and Collaboration - Built strong relationships with business leaders and managers to become a trusted advisor and strategic partner in driving business success
- Leveraged leadership skills to identify deficiencies and opportunities to improve policies, procedures and controls
- Held regular one-on-one meetings with employees to review performance and priorities and provide feedback
- Maintained open communication with team members and stakeholders, resulting in successful process outcomes
- Employee Relations - Ensured to foster a positive work culture and employee engagements to enhance productivity and job satisfaction
- Performance Management - Facilitated & Implemented performance management processes
- Compensation & Benefits - Collating payroll inputs on a monthly basis with respect to bonuses, variable payouts, salary revisions, recoveries
- Employee Engagements - Organized & successfully executed Goa offsite plan including global employees, took care of quarterly team outings across departments
- Initiated & successfully ran Rewards & Recognition programs on quarterly & yearly basis across the Organization
- Successfully managed global employee support (US,EU & Abu Dhabi) from onboarding, training enablement, one-on-one connects, hikes, separation requests & so on
- HR Communication - Facilitated effective communication between HR and the business, ensuring that HR initiatives are well understood and supported
- Managed & enabled onsite opportunity to employees traveling to Abu Dhabi by assisting them with end to end support throughout their tenure as part of the onsite program
- HR Policy Implementation - Ensured consistent and fair application of HR policies and procedures across the organization, Ex: Leave policies, WFH policies, Referral programs, Onsite benefits
Manager - People & Operations
AKIRA Consultancy
Bangalore
08.2020 - 07.2021
- Implemented new HRMS portal successfully across Organization
- Provided training & workshops to educate employees on the various modules of HRMS tool to automate & streamline HR processes throughout the Org
- Handled End to End employee life cycle from on boarding to exit process
- Ensured & monitored smooth processing of payroll of all the employees with monthly inputs & submissions
- Framed Leave & other HR compliance policies
- Conducted virtual campus selections & weekend drives across locations to meet the hiring demands
- Streamlined the recruitment process with scalable parameters
- Re-structured Employee referral program & successfully implemented across the Org.
- On boarded new employees, including training, mentoring and new hire documentation
- Maximized productivity by keeping detailed records of daily progress and identifying and rectifying areas for improvement
- Proven track record of stakeholder management
- Led & Managed HR, Admin & Operations activities individually during initial 6 months in the company & built a payroll team successfully
HR - Associate
TheMathCompany
Bangalore
05.2019 - 06.2020
- Hired for Senior roles (Director level) for one of the Fortune 500 companies as part of client engagement
- Ensured consistency in enabling positive candidate's experience through empathetic approach, constant follow ups and feedback with recruitment process
- Track record of working with internal and external stakeholders across multiple functions
- Proven external customer interaction experience
- Proposed process improvements within internal functions to achieve operational efficiency
- Revamped the employee referral process of the organization Implemented automation process to one of the sourcing and screening processes of internal recruitment team
- Led a team involving them for organizing and participating in various employee engagement activities
- Ensured smooth processing of resource management of Delivery accounts
- Led and monitored resources (new joiners) till their allocations to client delivery projects
- Monitored the progress of billing cycle of all delivery accounts ensuring smooth functioning and on timely basis
- Tracked and monitored SOWs (Statement of work) of all client engagements (Fortune 500 list) on Resource Management Tool
- Streamlined HR efficiencies, coordinated new hire orientations and provided on boarding and training for new employees
- Liaised between multiple business divisions to improve communications.
- Coordinated activities of human resources team, distributing resources and personnel effectively across organization to meet HR needs.
- Worked as effective team member while contributing to local and regional HR projects.
Assistant Manager - HR Operations
Times Network - Times of India Group
Bangalore
12.2015 - 01.2019
- Independently led and managed the entire employee life cycle from On boarding to Off-Boarding process of South Bureaus/branches (Bangalore, Chennai & Hyderabad)
- Demonstrated capability in leading and setting up a new office of Times Group, Bangalore by working with multiple stakeholders of the company
- Took complete ownership for the assigned task and informed timely on the progress of the task to the senior management and all stakeholders
- Evaluated team performance and provided feedback, tracked attendance & provided payroll assistance
- Great exposure to People management skills
- Demonstrated verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Managed the department budget and work processes
- Tracked daily reports and database management of the employees
- Handled employee grievance
- Ensured consistency & practices are followed as per HR polices & guidelines within team
- Was responsible for monitoring & motivating team members to deliver high level of performance Organized & arranged training programs as per the requirements
- Organized and initiated employee engagement and recreational activities Maintained personnel records and managed HRMS portal.
- Planned team-building exercises to increase employee performance and job satisfaction.
Subject Matter Expert - HR
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
06.2011 - 12.2015
- Analyze, Forecast & Evaluate cost estimation of IBMers Global projects including Airfares, accommodation, Visa, Immigration, local transport and other services as a part of Global Cost Estimation (CEG team)
- Supervised daily operation of HR services while working closely with other HR cross - functional teams such as benefits, payroll, recruitment ensuring alignment with all company policies, practices and procedures
- Support as a backup of Admins within HR internal team as an additional responsibility in terms of generating tickets for global on-site project requests received from Managers across globe
- Co-coordinate with IBM's client EY (Ernst & Young) team for preparing reports on tax paid by IBM on behalf of onsite employees
- Ensure onsite employee requests are assisted within TAT (Turnaround Time)
- Monitor mailbox & allocated the cost estimation requests to all the team members
- Prepare Excess tax reconciliation report of onsite assignees part of global projects
- Assist employees with payroll related queries & payables issues, pay slip clarifications and tax computations.
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
ICFAI University
BengaluruSkills
- Stakeholder Management
- Employee Relations
- Onboarding
- Performance Management
- Partnerships & collaboration
- Talent Management
- Employee Engagements
- HRMS
- Compensation & Benefits
- HR Policy implementation
- Recruitment
- Conflict Resolution
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Kannada
Hobbies and Interests
- Dance
- Music
- Adventure sports
- Travel
- Binge watch
Accomplishments
- Been Awarded & recognized as "The Mountain Mover - Resilience" in Jan - 2023 as part of employee recognition
- Got promoted to a managerial role in 2022.
Timeline
HRBP - Manager
Entropik
08.2021 - Current
Manager - People & Operations
AKIRA Consultancy
08.2020 - 07.2021
HR - Associate
TheMathCompany
05.2019 - 06.2020
Assistant Manager - HR Operations
Times Network - Times of India Group
12.2015 - 01.2019
Subject Matter Expert - HR
IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 12.2015
MBA - Human Resources Management
ICFAI University
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