Savitha Shankaraiah

Mobile No. 973-***-****.

Email: adp8xi@r.postjobfree.com

Human Resource Generalist

An enthusiastic & committed HR professional with an entrepreneurial spirit and an unmatched drive with more than 5.5 years enriched and progressive experience in the areas of Talent Acquisition, Employee Relation, Training, Payroll, Compensation and Benefits & HR- Operations.

Proven ability to work with the senior management team in integrating the human resources function with the overall business operating strategy.

An effective communicator, a dynamic go-getter and an excellent team player. Understands the importance of the HR department to any organization and therefore aims to be efficient and effective.

Key Accomplishments:

Created, Planned and Organized a company culture initiative which raised employee satisfaction rates by 25%.

Raised employee retention rates by 15% over a 5-year period.

Planned and Organized team building activities to boost employee performance.

Managed complete recruitment lifecycle for sourcing the best talent from diverse channels based on key resourcing metrics\job portals to hire right candidate.

Created a training manual for different groups and led bi-weekly training sessions.

Managed personal and professional records of more than 300 past and present employees.

Running payroll with accuracy, reliability, & processing on time for 1500+ employees.

Professional Experience

Company: Prestige Estates Projects Pvt Ltd., June 2010 to October 2012

Role: Senior Executive HR & Admin

Finalization of Salary Processing.

HR induction & overview about the company background and milestones. Induction to all new joinee’s.

Planning & scheduling for a formal induction with all the respective departments heads or their department representatives.

Implementing Strategies to improve Employee Journey and reduce rate of Attrition.

Feedback / recommendations given by the exited employees will be shared to the leadership team/management to take corrective action & to implement new systems & processes in place as per management call.

100% accurate while sharing the inputs to the processing team (Finance) to release salaries on time with making necessary deductions as per IT norms & statutory requirements.

Process full and final clearance for exit employees.

Complying to statutory pay outs like yearly bonus and gratuity.

Analyzing compensation policies prevailing in the organization and restructuring based on government regulations and prevailing wage rates for developing competitive compensation plans. (For contract employees)

Monitoring the benefits and the applicability of benefits to the employees at different levels; keeping the employees informed on benefits, compensation, and personnel policies.

Liaising with government department for license renewal, filing, maintaining, and updating Employee Database and MIS documentation as per audit norms.

Guiding & coordinating with managers and employees in understanding the KPI / KRA’s / PMS / Goal Setting Sheets, for performance valuation during the Annual Appraisal process.

Assisting the managers in streamlining Performance Management System, Rewards, Recognition, Retention Plan.

Identifying Training needs after discussion with HOD’s.

Preparation of annual Training calendar.

Identifying Training agency and suitable faculty for the training programs.

Managing the end-to-end recruitment life cycle. (Hiring to exit)

Company: Prestige Estates Projects Pvt Ltd., June 2009 to May 2010

Role: Executive HR & Admin

Premedical check-up, Background checks/referral checks, joining kit on 1st day of new joinee’s, document verification- marks sheets, certificates, getting all the statutory documents filled like PF, Gratuity, ESI if applicable, & other mandatory documents like PAN, AADHAR card, bank account no etc.

Explain about the policies of the company. (Do’s &Don’ts)

Introducing to their respective team members post induction.

Follow up with new joiners on a feed-back post 30 days of joining just to understand if they got settled or if they have any concerns or issues.

Ensuring 100 % compliance to get all new joiners covered under insurance or ESI whichever is applicable & keeping the record of employee’s time management, leave & attendance, verifying time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies with Finance Team & Auditors when concerns are raised.

Ensuring that company assets are returned by the employees before their exit. Exit Forms and clearance certificates are issued to the employees in a day or two before the actual last working day, so that they can get clearance form signed by their respective HOD, Admin, Finance, IT, & HR.

Post which the exit interview is conducted and issue Relieving & Experience letters.

LOP, Deductions to be considered like company transport, Canteen, damaging company assets, Deductions of loans, insurance, car lease, Loan/advances like housing, educational loans, or any other benefit which the organization is providing.

Resolving queries related to salary or deductions.

Providing relevant information to external and internal auditors during auditing and to ensure all HR processes are completed within the time frame.

Complying with legislative dues, preparing reports and returns pertaining to PF, ESIC, PT, Gratuity as per the laws applicable.

Carrying out post training feedback.

Worked closely with colleges for campus hires/fresher.

Sourcing, screening, and short-listing of profiles as per the requirements; negotiating on salaries and finalizing as per the offered & internal parity and approvals.

Company: Prestige Estates Projects Pvt Ltd., July 2007 to May 2009

Role: Associate HR & Admin

Maintaining personal files as per statutory requirements & as per company norms.

Providing Attendance & Leave details and ensuring more than 95% accuracy in the data.

Maintaining the record of employee information, such as internal transfers, resignations, payroll records, Birthday list, promotions, Increments, Employee referral Bonus.

Ensuring to make salary revisions if any after their confirmations.

To check and re-check the salary components of all the new joinee’s as per their appointment letters before the data are saved in systems/HRMS tools.

Resolving queries related to salary or deductions.

Proving Power point presentations on the out-come of Performance Management System.

Using online sources like Naukri portal, Social Media like Facebook, Linked IN and through Employee referral for recruitment needs.

Responsible for pre joining activities like handling queries, extensions in date of joining and sending confirmation details to various departments well in advance.

Documentation as per checklist.

Company: eQURA Consultants Pvt Ltd., September 2006 to June 2007

Role: Associate HR & Admin

Meet talent requirements to be hired and Lead the Recruitment team effectively.

Provide thought leadership in strategizing Recruitment.

Assess the most suitable talent and provide necessary direction to the Recruitment Team.

Management of the complete recruitment life – cycle for sourcing the best talent from diverse channels after identification of manpower requirements based on key resourcing metrics\job portals.

Manage effective client engagements – Attending client meetings to understand positions, skills needed for success and overseeing processes, tools and resources to support the talent selection process.

Identify active, qualified passive and non-passive job seekers, initial screening, scheduling, interviewing, and compensation negotiation including conditional closures.

Employment History

Organization Duration in Organization Designation

Prestige Estates Projects Pvt Ltd May 2010 – October 2012 Senior Executive – HR and Admin

Prestige Estates Projects Pvt Ltd May 2008 – April 2010 Executive – HR and Admin

Prestige Estates Projects Pvt Ltd July 2007 – April 2008 Associate – HR and Admin

eQURA Consultants Pvt Ltd September 2006 – June 2007 Associate – HR and Admin

Education & Certificate Credentials

Coursera Certification – (Preparing to Manage Human Resource, Managing Employee Performance, Recruiting, Hiring, and Onboarding Employees) University of Minnesota – 2020.

Master’s in psychology (Industrial) Bangalore University, India 2005

Bachelor’s Degree (Psychology, Journalism, Literature) St. Anne’s College, Bangalore, India – 2003

Personal Details

Nationality - INDIAN

Gender - Female

Date of Birth – October-17-1983

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