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Aravind Srinivasaraghavan

GRP, CCP, WLCP (World at Work)

Phone: +91-984**-***** (M) Email :

adcsrx@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravind-srinivasaraghavan-26a97011/ Years of Experience: 21+ years overall

Education: B.E. from University of Madras, MBA (HR) from Anna University

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

An experienced Human Resources professional with hands on expertise in the areas of Talent Management, Compensation & Benefits and Talent Staffing. Has a successful record of accomplishment of designing and delivering, for 180,000+ strong multi-national workforce, large-scale programs in the areas of Compensation, Benefits and Wellness. Analytical and detail oriented HR leader having profound knowledge and experience in entire Talent Life cycle & Business partnering. Work Experience

1. Cognizant Technology Solutions (2002 till date) a. 2008 till date – Human Resources

b. July 2002 to 2007 – Healthcare and Lifesciences projects 2. Silverline Technologies Limited (1998 to 2002)

Education Background

Vellore Engg. College (presently VIT) BE ( ECE) 1994 – 1998 Anna University MBA (HR) 2009 - 2011

Certifications

1. Certification in Leadership and Change Management from XLRI – currently pursuing 2. Certified Remuneration & Compensation expert from Work at Work – Valid till 2022 3. Certified Work Life expert from Work at Work – Valid till 2022 4. Certified in Role Clarification & IPE framework by Mercer 5. Certified HR Analytics Professional by Aon Hewitt Current Role: HR Transformation Leader (part of Global Delivery Organization) Earlier Roles: Talent Staffing & Supply Chain partner, Regional Head of Rewards (Compensation & Benefits), Talent Manager (Business Partner), Account Manager, Delivery / Project Manager Page 2 of 6

HR FUNCTIONAL AREAS HANDLED

● Integrated People Partner / Head HR for a function / Business Unit

● Partner Talent Supply chain / Talent Staffing

● Talent Management & Talent Engagement

● Talent Acquisition

● HR Compliance

● Communication & Branding

● Mergers & Acquisitions

Work Streams handled in Rewards

● Job Evaluation & Market Pricing

● Performance Management, Salary revisions, Bonus

● Short & Long Term Incentives & Deferred Compensation

● Executive Remuneration

● Variable Pay & Performance based rewards

● Benefits, Work Life, Wellness & Diversity

Work Streams handled in Staffing

● Demand forecasting & Supply Management

● Talent supply for backfill & growth

● Up-skilling, Re-skilling initiatives

● Release & Bench Management

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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

● Excellent problem solving, judgment and decision-making skills in highly complex situations

● Proven leadership and line management skills within a team environment

● Demonstrates highest degree of discretion and confidentiality

● Excellent analytical skills and attention to details

● Excellent presentation skills – including external forums

● Ease around changing priorities and multi-tasking

● Good global business environment experience

● Deep knowledge of business and industry activities

● Highly persuasive influencing and negotiating skills

● Sound knowledge of local and, as applicable, international relevant compensation laws and regulations

● Strong ability to work in a matrix environment – handling multiple geographies

● Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers and clients

Current Role HR Transformation Leader, Global Transformation Office.

● Responsible for driving transformation programs for the delivery organization on HR areas including Supply Chain, Performance Management and Rewards.

● Responsible for measuring the value creators defined by evaluating the programs and linking them to the larger delivery organization objectives.

● Responsible for tracking and reporting metrics defined under Cost of Delivery and People Supply Chain programs.

Partner Talent Supply Chain (Sep to Dec 2019)

Role Responsibilities

● Responsible for talent supply management for large business units in Cognizant. Manage talent forecasting, demand – supply balance, supply pipeline to cater to back fill and growth positions

● Responsible for identifying up-skill, cross skill requirements and make recommendations.

● Responsible for release management and controlling bench costs

● Responsible for implementing best practices and process improvements and measured on turnaround time, fulfillment SLAs

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WORK EXPERIENCE DETAILS (Sep 2019 to Dec 2019)

● Partner with business in identifying talent supply needs to cater to growth and attrition backfill.

● Work with Fulfillment Engine to get the right talent staffed.

● Managing talent-staffing needs for the business unit globally.

● Release planning and release management for BPO units.

● Managing unbilled staff and resource rotation across projects. Indirectly responsible for improving Utilization Cost of delivery aspects leading to improvement in margins. Head of Rewards for Cognizant India, ASEAN, GCN, ANZ & ME (2011 till Aug 2019) Role Responsibilities

● Responsible for designing and implementing reward strategies and business relevant policies and programs, aligned to the overall P&R (Performance & Reward) strategy and HR strategy.

● Responsible for researching best practices and keeping abreast of legislative and market changes to provide direction and expert advice to HR & Business leaders in relation to the Performance & Rewards areas.

WORK EXPERIENCE DETAILS

● As Part of the Global Rewards team

- Leading the overall rewards portfolio for Cognizant India, ASEAN (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand), GCN (China, Japan, Korea), ANZ (Australia and New Zealand), ME (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman)

- Involved in budgeting, leadership approvals of budgets, design and communication of reward cycles including salary increments and incentive payouts

- Involved in design and implementation of Bonus plans for Sr. leaders in non-sales roles

- Working on Long term incentive, stocks for Senior leaders in the organization

- Short term incentives and retention proposals for business units

- Support recruitment teams on leadership hiring for the organization

- Involved in benchmarking of compensation and benefits details for diverse groups from different industry sources

- Carried out compensation re-structuring to handle Minimum wage compliance, PF, ESI and compliance to bonus acts

- Involved in decision making of the right set of benefits and benefits partners for Insurance programs

- Set up wellness framework, approach for wellness and created programs on wellness/well being

- Created and delivered industry best / leading programs on wellness

- Worked on several Mergers and Acquisitions from due diligence to implementation

- Enabling business for decision making with respect to mergers and acquisitions

- Developed appropriate communication programs on rewards for internal communication and branding

- Work with corporate communications for external PR on rewards related areas

- Engaging with rewards consulting firms to review market trends & suggest rewards strategies to keep abreast of trends and best practices

- Managing Digital agenda for rewards practice and working with technology implementation teams on systems upgrade and changes

- Managing a multi-cultural team located across geographical locations Page 5 of 6

- Key Programs

Bonus plan implementation for C2020 roles

Women Wellbeing programs, programs supporting LGBT associates

TRS (Total Rewards System) rollout across different APAC countries

Rollout of Employee assistance programs

New Salary Matrix in Australia

New Salary grids to South Korea

Diversity framework proposal for ASEAN countries

Affinity Platform launch

Novated lease program in Australia

Withdrawing Medical Insurance for locals in Australia

● HR – Business Partner – SAP Business Unit (2008 to 2011)

- Led the Talent Management / HR Business Partner team for SAP unit, for an overall headcount of ~ 3000 associates

- Served as Integrated People Partner / HR Business Partner Lead advising BU Heads and their management team, on people issues and helped them overcome challenges

- Responsible for delivery excellence on a wide spectrum of HR functions that includes, talent management & engagement, assimilation programs, integration activities, performance management (appraisals & promotions), rewards and recognitions, connect & communication initiatives, compensation and benefits, salary revisions, incentives, leadership bonus plans, leadership development initiatives and learning interventions

- Maintained an integrated working relationship with regional, global HR and business management teams

- Designed an employee engagement model that helped in retention and development of High potential performers within the BU

- Conceptualized and implemented various employee engagement programs at the organization and BU level

Key Accomplishments, Awards & Memberships

● Chief People Officer award for Leadership in 2016

● Part of steering committee in IT services industry forum (represented by 25 different IT services organizations)

● Member of BPO services forum

● Industry recognized Rewards leader

● Participated in several conferences as speaker including CII, NHRD, Marsh, Mercer, Aon and People Matters

Non HR Experience

● Account Manager 2007 - 2008

o France – Pharma / Life Sciences Customers

Working at Client site with customer stakeholders in managing their IT system requirements. Single point of contact for the customer(s) on deliverable / requirements arising at their end. Managing P&L for cognizant from the customer portfolios and responsible for managing and growth of revenue. Customers managed include Sanofi, Novartis and other Pharma customers. Page 6 of 6

● Project / Program Manager 2004 - 2007

o India – Life Sciences Domain

Program Manager for large Sanofi Pasteur customer assignment. This involved multiple stream including IT development, hosting the product / system and management / operations in a BPO model. The product development involved designing, development, quality control and systematic implementation of the product in the live-environment. Post Live, supporting the customers with BPO processes in terms of data entry, validation etc.. This system developed and maintained covered areas of Clinical data management, Clinical trials, research etc.

● Project Lead / Team Lead 2002 - 2004

o India – Healthcare, Life Sciences domains

Worked as a Project Lead for Abbott customer engagement in managing end to end of IT system development and maintenance. Development involved in technologies including Visual basic, oracle and .NET. Ongoing maintenance of the product for bug fixes and enhancements, status reporting

● Developer 1999 - 2002

o Oracle, Microsoft, Hyperion, Business Objects, Reporting Worked as a developer at onsite – US for Blue Cross Blue Shield customer in healthcare.

● Trainee 1998 - 1999

o Y2k, Oracle, Microsoft Technologies

Worked as a coder, making fixes in COBOL and other languages for Y2K. review and testing of code snippets to ensure corrections.

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