Varun Salian

HR Business Partner & Talent Acquisition :

• Responsible for managing employee lifecycle for all Business and support functions such as Tech, Product,Marketing & Sales.
• Hiring for Leadership roles across various functions. Successfully bought down the cost per hire by using low cost channels to hire candidates across all functions.
• Redesigned the entire selection process by introducing a third party assessment panel for Tech hiring.
• Partnering with Senior Management, Business Heads and Hiring Managers for workforce planning, Promotion, Probation Confirmation, Mid-Year review, Compensation benchmarking, and Internship Programs.
• Plan and execute the Induction Programme.
• Revamped the entire HR documentation for easy access and data retrieval.
• Managing the employee data creation for new hires and Personal File Management .
• Act as first point of contact to employees for any queries related to salary disbursement, grievances and other issues.
• Deploying retention strategy by identifying pulse (insights though exit interviews and other aspects)
• Employee Skip Levels Session to assess employee satisfaction levels.
• Responsible for exit management.
• Handling Annual Appraisal Process across the levels for employees.
• Along with senior management validating the Performance Management System procedures and ensuring the process is conducted in fair manner & completed within set timelines.

Compensation and Benefit :

• Streamlined the entire payroll process by introducing HRMS tool for error free salary calculation.
• Responsible for all the monthly inputs to be given and other employee related information for any changes in the designation, salary, promotion, transfer, termination, resignation, to the Payroll team.
• Benchmarking of Compensation as per industry standards.
• Full and Final Settlements and other exit formalities.

Talent Acquisition & Vendor Management :

• Worked as an HRBP for entire Call Centre, POS, Tech & Non-Tech Verticals.
• Executed bulk hiring for new offices set up in Mumbai and Gurgaon. Hired more than 500 employees in a Span of 3 months to ensure business continuity.
• Involved in initial and on-going stages of planning and execution of hiring strategy with the Management.
• Designed, executed & Driven Employee Referral Schemes.
• Reduced recruitment cost through network hiring, employee referrals and IJPs.
• Analyzing the recruitment vendors based on the rate of productivity towards recruitment.
• Managing recruitment, training and advertising vendors, scrutinizing and negotiating terms of the contract in favor of the organization to meet its objectives.

HRBP :

• Timely handled issues of employee absence, discipline by providing counselling to employees thus reducing the number of grievances from people managers.
• Conduct Open House sessions with employees, understand employee queries/concerns and address them.
• Developed an absolute transparent culture among the employees and HR. Introduce various Fun@Work programs like Birthday & Festive Celebrations, Sports.
• Managing Indoor & Outdoor corporate activities to engage and maintain higher employee satisfaction.
• Provide Support in rolling out of the performance management process, maintain and update data and information related to employee?s performance.

On-boarding Operations :

• Managing/monitoring the joining formalities right from getting the joining form filled, employee code creation, enrolling finger access for attendance punching, employee induction, documents scrutinizing, maintain employees personal file, opening salary accounts, issuance asset allocation & management.
• Issuance of offer, appointment, increment letter & I-cards. Plan and execute Induction Programme.
• Drafting Welcome Mail, introducing new employees to the entire organization.

HR Operations :

• Manage timely execution and compliance for all internal processes that impact an employee life cycle.Transfers, Promotions, Appraisals, Confirmation.
• Providing salary inputs of 1000+ employees to vendor for smooth salary process by providing new joiners data, collating attendance manually from Mumbai & Gurgaon Branch, adjustments of leaves, incentives data, any additional payments/deductions, salary hold cases.
• Implementing HRMS to automate and effectively facilitate HR operations across the organization.
• Making Recruitment Tracker, Hiring Tracker, Offer Tracker and Exit Tracker on Daily basis.
• Consistent maintenance of documents necessary for Internal/External Audits.

Compensation and Benefit / Mediclaim :

• Responsible for all the monthly inputs to be given and other employee related information for any changes in the designation, salary, promotion, transfer, termination, resignation, to the Payroll team.
• Ensured timely coverage and claim settlement of medical insurance for the employees.
• Liaison with External Consultants for any PF, contracts, Insurance related queries understanding of company policies and laws concerning HR programs and benefits.
• Updating all new joiners data in medical sheet and sending it to the concerned team.

Resolving employees queries on leaves,tracking and maintaining leave details for Kimberly Clark Corporation.