Project Management

Tara Mani

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Professional Summary

A result oriented HR professional with 10+ years of experience in Human Resources Management

and Project Management Operations. Worked in a gamut of HR functions like compensation &

benefits, performance appraisals, employee developmental initiatives, addressing employee

concerns, formulating and implementing HR policies, procedures and programs. Also have

expertise in staffing, project invoicing and client relationship.

Core Competencies

• Supporting organizational effectiveness through proper alignment of people, processes,

structure and culture with HR strategies.

• Payroll administration

• Performance appraisals, rewards & recognition

• Recruitment, employee induction & exit formalities

• Employee relationship management & grievance handling

• Have good knowledge in Indian labour laws and employment acts

• Ability to coordinate activities across organization functions

• Proficiency in resource coordination and project management operations including project

billing.

• Worked closely with senior management in developing custom reports, providing

the analysis and presentations.

• Good analytical and organization skills, including proven ability to adapt to a dynamic

project environment and supervise multiple projects staffing & invoicing.

• Worked as an end user of SAP HR R/3

• Strong working knowledge on Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) and

Project Management tools.

• Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills

Education

Masters in Business Administration, Andhra University (1999)

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• Diploma in Computer applications.

Technical Skills

Opertaing Systems : Windows 98/2000/XP

Application Software : MS-Office

ERP : SAP 4.7 HR

Work Experience

Position Company Period

Senior HR Manager Aravind Mills Ltd., India Sept ‘09to till date

Sr. Executive, Operations LAKSHYAA Solutions, Hyderabad Nov’06 to Aug’09

HR Executive eccentric Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad June’02 Sept’’06

Rewarded with ‘Pat on Back’ Award for performance excellence based on internal customer

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feedback

Job Role as a Sr. HR Manager, Operations @ Aravind Mills Ltd., India, [Sept' 09 till date ]

HR Policies Formulation & Implementation

• Have developed the HR policies, procedures & programs from start and have enforced the

implementation of the same.

• Introduced employee welfare initiatives.

• Drive compliance on all HR processes from employee entry to exit.

• Complete ownership of all HR functions.

HR Initiatives

Partnering with business, recommended correction of compensation based on the

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performance, skill set and parity.

Understood the interests of the Management on employee punctuality and implemented the

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automatic attendance system with swipe cards.

Payroll Administration

• Defined the payroll structures in the organization

• Managed the end end payroll processing of the employees

• Filed PF, PT and ESI statutory requirements

• Employee Insurance benefits administration

Performance Appraisal

• Designed the appraisal formats in the organization

• Owned the complete appraisal process till issuing the increment letters to the employees.

• Analyzed and compared the performance of employees doing the similar job in order to

recognize the best talent.

Recruitment

• Recruitment of candidates for both technical and functional skills.

• Coordination with staffing consultancies.

• Salary negotiations and subsequent placement of resources in projects.

• Understand the prospective resource requirements based on the business opportunities in

pipeline.

MIS Maintenance

• Maintenance of employee records

• Leave database administration

• Maintenance of various HR databases

• Providing the reports to Management on HR budgets, and reports on new entrants and

employee attrition.

Other HR activities

• Addressed the employee concerns effectively

• Responsible for taking the joining formalities and inducting the new entrant into the team.

• Taking the exit interviews and doing final settlement to the associates leaving the

organization.

• Recommending the contract employees for regular employment after the completion of

probation period.

Taking care of mandatory employee legal requirements

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Resource Deployment

• Understanding the project/client requirements and coordinating with the Resourcing team

and Recruitment team for fulfilling the requirement.

• Short listing the profiles as per project requirement, focusing on matching the skills

requirement and customer needs to the employee aspirations.

• Keeping track of requirement generation and ensuring optimum utilization of resources.

• Ensuring the resources are mapped to the project on time so as to avoid billing loss.

• Keeping track of resource releases in advance and sourcing them to new requirements to

avoid bench period.

• Monitoring the alignment of resource ratio mix in the projects to the organization directive.

Project Management Operations

• Creating the Project IDs based on the new project engagements.

• Coordinating with the project managers for efforts estimation sheet of the project and

getting it approved with the concerned authorities.

• Monitoring projects with respect to budgeted costs and efforts estimates and alarming the

project managers about the cost over runs.

• Keeping track of project profitability after every invoicing cycle.

• Helping the project managers in updating the project information in internal tools like new

customer PO mapping, project end date extensions.

• Monitoring the timesheets compliance of the project associates and confirming the

timesheets for invoicing purpose.

• Coordinating with Finance team for generating the customer invoice.

MIS/Data Analysis

• Preparing and presenting various weekly/monthly reports to Sr. Management.

• Collecting the new business information and the exiting business updates from the Delivery

Integrators and presenting it to Management.

• Preparing Budget Vs. Revenue Projection Reports.

• Maintaining high end financial information of the Unit.

• Reporting the Loading Factor of the project every month thereby analyzing the reasons for

unbilled hours so as to reduce the unbilled hours.

• Comparison of Budgeted efforts with Actual efforts of the project and reporting to Delivery

heads.

Maintaining the data base of all the resources in the Unit including their billing status and

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billing plan.

Preparing and maintaining the billing inputs sheet of the projects.

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HR Activities

• First SPOC for all employee queries in the Unit.

• Coordinating with Corporate HR team for initiating the transfers/deputations as demanded

by the project requirement.

• Contributed to Performance Appraisal data validation, collected the Delivery Managers

opinion about their recommendations to each associate in the project and provided to

Corporate HR.

• Resolving the associate’s timesheet entry issues and advising the payroll team for their shift

allowances after required approvals.

Other Contributions

• Provided training to new entrants in the organization with the similar job profile.

• Developed the format of various reports that are presented to Sr. Management.

Client: LAKSHYAA Solutions, Hyderabad [Nov '06 June '09]

Role: HR Manager

Training & Development:

• Taken train sessions for all staff like Induction Training, Company Policies, Training

calendars for all department.

• Prepared PowerPoint presentations on Personal Grooming, Customer Orientation,

• Coordination with all departments for training programmers.

• Conducting training programs on new events and organization overview.

Human Resource Information System & Statutory Compliance, Financial Management

• Maintaining the complete Employee Master data with personal data, company data and

salary data of employees. Generated reports for Finance and Management in various areas

like salary reports, increment & PRLP[Performance Reward Link Program]

• Implementing HR POLICIES.

• Updating HRIS Human Resource Information System.

• Maintaining Surety & Security Bonds of the Employees and the NDA.

• Action Plan and when and where required preparing necessary programs

• Preparing Offer Letter, Appointment Letters, Confirmation Letters.

Taking care of circulars and memos for employees.

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Performance Reward Link Programs.

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As a main contact point for HR for about 255 employees, acted as a conduit for both

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management and employees.

Taking care of legal issues and preparing a confidential report by enquiry and filing it and

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get the authorization from Company Advocate.

Conducted Regular meetings on one to one basis, group meetings to know about the

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employee’s work, interpret policies, taken feedback and suggestions and interact with the

employees.

Interacted with all team members of all departments.

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Taking care of Training & Development and preparing training modules.

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Maintained payroll in the Peach Streak, and done payrolls for more than 200 employees and

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processed pay slips.

Maintained Time sheets, and attendance time records and the time management.

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Done Performance Appraisal according to the Grade & Level of the Employees.

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Maintaining the Exit Formality with the employees and finishing with their settlements.

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Statutory Compliances PF & ESI, PT Remittances and ensuring that all statutory & non

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statutory Licenses are displayed and Generating monthly statutory reports through software

& maintaining them.

Coordination with stores in Statutory Compliance, Employee welfare, Attendance

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Monitoring, Maintenance of Leave Records,

Maintenance of Medical, Telephone,LTA records & reimbursements, Stationary

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Maintenance,Infrastructure Maintenance (Telephones, Electricity & Computers)

Preparation of monthly MIS & sending it to the Corporate Office, Chennai, New

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Candidates Induction & Joining Formalities Assisting the HR in Statutory Compliance

Issuing ID Cards & Uniforms Issuing monthly payments & Overtime payments Assisting

the GM HR in Contract like (House Keeping & Security) Compliance.

Maintained good rapport with both Domestic and International Clients and keeping good

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track records with clients.

Talent Planning & Recruitment

• Forecast the man power needs of the organization and discuss with management and

project managers.

• Provide realistic staffing projections for budget purposes.

• Slashed the last minute hiring costs like huge notice buy outs while ensuring the quality of

hire.

• Develop recruitment strategy and provide hiring information and consult with resourcing

team.

Interview job applicants; review application/resume; evaluate applicant skills and make

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recommendations regarding applicant's candidature.

Determine pay for new hires within appropriate and defined pay structures and with

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consideration of existing work group compensation.

Reduced the CPH (cost per hire) phenomenally by negotiating with the candidate and also

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reduced the time to fill any position.

Ensuring the proper flow between the demand and supply chain of work force.

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Other Contributions

• Provided training to new entrants in the organization with the similar job profile.

• Developed the format of various reports that are presented to Sr. Management.

Client: eccentric Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad June '02 Sept'06

Job: HR Executive

Recruitments:

• Maintained a nine member team for HR, Allotting works for HR team and reporting to the

GM HR.

• Done recruitments according to companies Manpower Budget.

• Conducted Various Campus Recruitments for different positions with various colleges

across Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Bangalore.

• Worked on various technologies for recruitments on IT.

• Well versed in job portals like Naukri, Monster, Times job in searching profiles.

• Recruited for different position for Junior Level, Middle Level, & Senior Level.

• Taking Preliminary rounds, and telephonic interviews, doing the short listing & selection

process.

• Conducting technical test and negotiating in salary criteria.

• Reporting directly to AVP HR.

• Taking care of end to end recruitment process.

Training & Development:

• Taken train sessions for all staff like Induction Training, Company Policies, Training

calendars for all department.

• Prepared PowerPoint presentations on Personal Grooming, Customer Orientation,

Coordination with all departments for training programmers.

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Conducting training programs on new events and organization overview.

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Other Contributions

• Organized the Annual Celebrations Event of the Organization and received the

appreciation.

• Resolved the marketing and flied staff issues pertaining to travel advances and streamlined

the process.

References available upon request.

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