Management Staff

MA, BA (Hons) Bhavin Pankhania

(Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)

Personal Details

Location: London, UK E-mail:

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Tel: 078*-***-****

Employment Details

Career Break - Travelling South East Asia and Australia

January 2013 - October 2013

Capgemini Group - Sogeti UK Ltd (Professional Services)

November 2011 - December 2012

Human Resources

Responsibilities

Recruitment

. HR Interviews for potential candidates for both Graduate

Recruitment Intake and Administrators.

. Interviewing including competency based questions, probing and

selection of potential intake.

. Handling the full on boarding process for all new employees.

. Maintaining up to date VISA records for staff as well as updating

management on extensions.

Employee Relations

. Initial disciplinary investigations as well as providing support

to management pre investigation meetings.

. Providing sound generalist advice to employees throughout the

organisation including maternity/ paternity procedures, absence

management, probation reviews and performance improvement plans.

. Assisting in the development and implementation of HR policies and

procedures, for both Sogeti and TUPE transfer.

. Off boarding of staff (including exit letters, informing corporate

services and carrying out exit meetings) and correlating

information from employees for management.

. Minute taking during employee terminations by management.

. Sound understanding of employee legislation, with ER issues.

Employee Engagement

. Creating monthly newsletters to inform Sogeti employees of monthly

activities, employee life cycles, sector updates and CEO Updates.

. Correlation of employee data for corporate Capgemini to create

annual employee surveys.

. Analyses of monthly exits and presenting this to management team

in order to enhance employee attrition rate.

. Providing advice to Sogeti employees which are in line with

company objectives.

Payroll

. Adjusting payroll with yearly and ad hoc pay rises, including

liaison with finance.

. Liaison with external payroll team to ensure smooth transition of

salary.

. Sending out monthly reports to Edenred (Benefits Administrators)

with changes to be added after payroll cut off.

Performance Management

Assisting and coaching management and employees for annual appraisal

process.

Analysis of annual performance of staff for both Sogeti UK and

Capgemini corporate.

Communication of annual pay reviews and promotions of staff.

Administration

. Supporting a small HR team to a remit off approximately 350 staff

nationally.

. Dealing with HR Queries coming from senior management to

employees.

. Maintaining a sophisticated HR Database (Breathe HR) with updates

on absences, performance appraisals and employee patterns.

. Working on Navision to handling weekly attendance by staff.

. Extensive use of MS Office (including Word, Excel and Outlook), to

produce letters and mail merges and payroll records.

Achievements

. Successful analysis of employee data to management.

. Changing the off boarding process to gain more productive

information from former employees to reduce attrition rate.

. Changing the Payroll process in order to have maximum efficiency.

. Liaising with Centre of Excellence (COE) team to improve current

HR processes and minimise HR labour and make fuller use of

systems.

. Currently acting as an Employee Representative for Auto Enrolment

into Pensions as required by new Government legislation.

. During a change where we had a new Benefits administrator,

assisted transfer of knowledge and eliminate errors before going

live to Sogeti UK.

Thales Group (Transportation Systems Domain) (Engineering)

December 2010 - October 2011

HR Coordinator - Temporary Contract

Responsibilities

. Supporting two business entities (including Generalists, Officers

and Business Partners) within DTS domain.

. Providing HR support to clientele (approximately 1300 staff

including employees and managers) located nationally.

. Systems (Lotus Notes, Citrix - PS Enterprise) including for day-

to-day activities including analysing contracts,

and pay records.

. Main point of communication between local HR and Shared Services

located externally, which control all

transactional activity and payroll.

. Assisting grievance investigations by, setting up meetings,

minute taking, typing up minutes for investigation

managers and providing support in terms of understanding behind

the grievance.

. Administration in SAP HR Module: HR100 - HR overview, HR300 -

Organizational Management and Reporting

and HR400 - Time Administrator.

. Extensive use MS Office (including Word and Excel) to do tasks as

such as V Look up and mail merge.

. Leaver process including handling paper work and sending out exit

forms to leavers as well as carrying out exit

interviews.

. Assisting the resourcing team, by providing job descriptions and

occasionally first stage interviews

with potential candidates.

. Managing multiple stakeholders from director level to

subordinates.

. Payroll administration including monthly checks upon payroll

reports (including starters, leavers and ad hoc

inputs) and producing audit reports.

. Advising employees and managers on Thales benefits including eye

care, child care vouchers and

leaver.

. Handling general HR queries including absence, check lists, forms

and procedures.

. Carrying out first line consultations and advising staff on

policies and practise (including professional education,

maternity leave).

. Setting up meetings with Occupational Health for employees.

. General administration including scanning, filling and organising

meetings.

Achievements

. Updated HR Induction presentation and starter packs for new

staff, both permanent and contractors.

. Successfully changing the payroll procedure between the two

business entities and payroll-shared services.

. Acted as a HR Representative to carry out consultation meetings

with management and staff whilst change in organisation.

Central Office of Information (COI) (Central Government)

November 2009 - November 2010

HR Administrator - Internal Secondment

(Redundant)

Responsibilities

. Managing the recruitment for my remit, including receiving

information from the department, producing job advertisements,

handling CV's, coordinating and participating in interviews and

sifting packs.

. Snowdrop system used for updating personnel records,

recruitment, PDA's, inputting staff absence, checking security

clearances and making sure all information is constantly

accurate.

. Processing starters and leavers which include producing and

sending off letters (including permanent, fixed term and fee-

paid contracts), carrying out reference checks and handling

security checks (SC and Scottish Disclosure) and also probation

periods.

. Managing HR Queries for COI staff, such as policies and holiday

entitlement.

. Handling staff absences, for HR Department as well as other

departments.

. Liaising with pay roll staff to handle promotions, and pay

records.

. Keeping up to date performance reviews from my remit and

sending out performance outcomes to payroll to update yearly

salary increases.

. Managing multiple stakeholders on all levels from administrator

to management.

. General Administrative duties including filing, scanning,

printing out letters and emails.

Achievements

. Successful implementation of setting up welcome meetings as

well as follow up meetings.

. Coordinating workshops for staff during redundancy process,

this included CV Workshops and Group Sessions.

Central Office of Information (COI) - (GovGap)

August 2008 - October 2009

Business Support Coordinator

Responsibilities

. General ad hoc Administration duties, including answering the phone,

opening and passing mail, shredding documents and filling (this

must be done on a ongoing bases for the rest of the department to

access information.

. Creating contracts for placements and provisions, as well as making

sure that they are sent on time and amended if need be.

. Liaising with finance team, including accounts payable/ receivable,

credit control and pay roll as well as the GovGap team including

Consultants, Managers and Resourcing Coordinator.

. Liaising with candidates, to coordinate registration meetings with

GovGap.

. Liaising with clients In terms of chasing up information including

purchase order numbers and signed cost estimates.

. Working through procedures, and producing my own spreadsheets, which

include monthly client invoices, my queries and candidate information.

Achievements

. Setting up new spread sheets and processes to maintain efficiency

throughout the back office of GovGap.

. Financial Administration including producing Invoices, Cost Estimates,

Credit Notes, Supplier Payments, new supplier forms.

Education

MA Personnel and Development/ CIPD

2009 - 2011

University of Westminster, London

Business Studies BA (Hons) 2:2

2004 - 2007

De Montfort University, Leicester

References

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