Nanditha Nagaswamy
: ********.*********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A HR professional with 14+ years of experience in Human Resource Management with additional responsibility of managing the IT infrastructure and Admin departments.
Experience as a HR Generalist includes responsibilities like policy creation and amendment, setting up process for teams to follow through, end-to-end recruitment, post recruitment, employee engagement, performance appraisal & review management, leave management, attendance, payroll, compensation and benefits and training & development.
Hands-on experience in managing other support services like IT / Network department, Admin department and Academy. Other responsibilities include maintain the overall budget with P&L responsibility, vendor management, overall maintenance of the data centre, IT upgrades to the existing set up and overall IT infrastructure maintenance.
Possess excellent team handling and leadership skills with an ability to perform in a challenging environment.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Recruitment & Selection
Resource planning and budgeting for the year
Gathering requirement for manpower from various department heads, preparation of detailed job specifications, candidate specifications.
Sourcing candidates from job portals, employee referral programs, social networking sites, paper advertisements, walk-ins, through consultancies, campus Interviews, head hunting and by creating internal bench strength through a program called “Academy”
Involved in end-to-end recruitment process
Proper follow up and on-boarding of candidates
Post Recruitment Activities:
Joining formalities of the candidates, collection and verification of the documents
Responsible for conducting orientation programs for the new employees.
Managing and maintaining paper work like appointment letters and probation confirmation of employees
Maintaining Database and Personnel Files and back ground verification for new hires
Performance Appraisal
Initiate, coordinate & close the annual performance appraisals discussions with respective line managers
Organizing, formulation & implementation of annual increment in line with the budget
Managing appraisal process across all the levels
Annual review of senior employees & facilitating internal promotions and increments with respective department heads.
Responsible for assessing employee potential and suggesting growth path within the team, salary revisions and analysis during and after appraisals.
Employee Relationship
Reviewing and implementing policy & procedural changes to enable smooth functioning of operations and growth of employees
Handling employee separation activities and closure of employee files.
Handling employee grievances, counselling of employees and initiation of disciplinary actions wherever required.
Conducting exit interview, analysing attrition data and discussing with respective heads to reduce attrition.
Handling employee queries on policies, compensation etc.
Payroll & Compensation
Collating attendance from various departments.
Processing the pay requests, tax workings and calculations every month.
Preparation of bank transfer statements.
Generating Payslips.
Preparation Full and Final Settlements, Gratuity settlement and PF closures.
Income Tax
Based on the declaration given by employees, work out monthly income tax dues and incorporating the same in the payroll.
Collecting reimbursement bills, investment proof documents etc
Issuing Form 16 & Form 16A
Statutory Compliances
Liaison with government departments like PF, ESIC, PT, Gratuity, Labour and maintaining relevant records.
Preparation and online/manual filing of statutory returns for PF, ESIC, PT, TDS, Service Tax etc.
Coordinating for PF withdrawals, Transfer in, Transfer out etc. and Gratuity claims.
Monthly returns, half yearly returns, annual returns and maintaining all statutory files
Preparation of data sheets for generating the annual Actuary reports.
Employee Welfare & Other Activities
Group Mediclaim/Personal insurance related processing & coordinating with the Insurance agents
Taking care of mediclaim requests from employees.
Coordinating training programs for technical and soft skills enhancement
Participating in employee welfare related activity conducting and coordinating Monthly and Yearly Events
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Hotcourses India Private Limited (IDP Education Ltd) Jan 2009 to till date
Designation: Manager – HR & Admin
Hotcourses is a UK based IT company, HQ in London. The Development / off-shore centre is based in Chennai.
My Responsibilities include:
Complete management of end-to-end HR Functions
Handling other support departments like Admin, NW support and Academy
Responsible for preparing the annual budget for the company
Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer
Head Hunters India Private Limited April 2008 to Dec 2008
Designation: Senior Recruitment Manager
The Head Hunters India specializes in recruiting executive personnel with outstanding track records who will create competitive advantage and sustainable value to the organization.
Responsibilities:
Handle specialized assignments in headhunting at the senior and mid management level
Excellent experience in industry and competitor mapping to get the right talent on board.
Focused industry wise / domain wise manpower recruitment and placement experience
Excellent client interaction experience
Jawood Business Process India Private Limited Jul 2006 to Mar 2008
Designation: Team Leader (Mid Market Practice)
Jawood is a Staffing company based out of Michigan, USA with its branch office in Chennai, India. Jawood’s core expertise is to provide highly skilled technical and non technical candidates to clients.
Responsibilities:
Handling,directing and training a team of recruiters in meeting the organization targets and goals
Responsible for IT, Non IT and ITES recruitment
Was instrumental in bringing in new business and maintaining the existing client base
Initiated and framed the organizational policies and target structure for the team
Monitoring the progress of recruitment and revenue on a Monthly / Quarterly basis to make sure that it is in alignment with the organization’s targets and goals.
TeamLease Services Private Limited Aug 2005 to Jun 2006
Designation: Career Consultant (Non IT)
TeamLease Services Pvt Ltd is India’s largest Staffing Solutions Company and is also the largest contract staffing company providing a range of people solutions to its client partners.
Responsibilities:
Meeting corporate clients to work on their manpower requirements.
Based on the client’s requirement, sourcing candidates from job portals, networking and through head hunting.
Short- listing the candidates based on the job description.
Meeting clients to discuss candidate profiles.
Conducting preliminary rounds of interview with the candidates to ensure that the best candidates are presented to the client.
Arrange interviews for these candidates with the clients.
Following up with final short listed candidates to ensure that the fitment happens.
Zoniac India Private Limited Jun 2003 to Jul 2005
Designation: Operations Manager
Zoniac is a product based IT company which provides end-to-end, integrated operations systems that significantly increases the productivity and effectiveness of the core operations of Professional Service Organizations through web based solutions.
Responsibilities:
Solid end-to-end recruitment strategies, which were critical in the number of resources within the organization being doubled in the first year itself.
Introduced an effective induction program for new hires, which eased their transition into the company.
Was responsible for other HR functions including policy creation, payroll processing, grievance handling, performance appraisals, and leave management system.
Leveraged strong people management skills to coach and mentor resources.
As manager of human resources, successfully installed the payroll system to automate payroll. Prior to this system being installed, payroll was processed manually.
Organized employee training programs like technical training workshops and seminars for new and existing hires to augment their skills to meet the growing demands of the business.
Education Qualification
MA in Corporate Secretaryship, 2001 - 2003
JBAS College for Women, University of Madras, India
Bachelor of Commerce, 1998 – 2001
JBAS College for Women, University of Madras, India
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : 12/10/1980
Marital Status : Married
Address : # 21/10, Jagadambal Street, T Nagar,
Chennai - 600 017
India
References will be provided on request.