HR, Business HR

Santosh Kumar S

No **A/**, Gandhi Road, Arumbakkam, Chennai – 600 0106.

Phone - +919*********, email – t18akx@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

HR professional with over 6 years of experience, having a comprehensive and strategic understanding of Performance and Rewards Management, Employee Engagement, devise and implement coherent HR processes and improving internal procedures to handle Compensation Benefit Administration, Talent Management and stakeholder management coupled with a strong Knowledge on PeopleSoft HRMS.

Associated with Standard Chartered Global Shared Service since December 2003.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

• Cross Country Orientation, Relationship Management, Customer Orientation.

• PeopleSoft Functional Knowledge, In-depth conceptual knowledge in Reward & Retention Strategy & HR Operations.

Associate Manager – Business HR Support

Mar 2008 - Present

Business HR (BHR) is part of Group HR function that develop HR strategy aligning to specific business agenda driving business performance by adopting practices such as build organizational capacity, increase individual capabilities and promote a culture of excellence through strong leadership across different geographies and various customer segments. The division collaborates with business stakeholders to strategically and systemically address the Bank’s mission and goals.

• Maintain harmony between BHR and Shared Service as a Relationship Manager.

• Facilitate the design and delivery of processes that enable the business to meet objectives.

• Smooth execution of Annual Performance review which includes providing inputs to Business on appropriate Reward strategies, Modeling, leveling, analytics and letter issuance.

• Compile Market data and frame competitive pay ranges to facilitate decision making process across Business on pay review.

• Provide ad hoc interpretation of company philosophy, policy and principles related to the areas of compensation and making recommendations as necessary.

• Evaluate overall performance against objectives and work with Group HR on specific challenges in meeting objectives.

• Integral part of People Forum.

• Implement strategic plans for employee engagement, retention and succession planning.

• Instigated capability review and developed a plan for the population identified.

• Creating and delivering presentation.

Key Achievements:

• Facilitated the design and delivery of Strategic People Agenda.

• End to end Performance and the Rewards Management.

Assignment to Singapore:

(Nov ‘06 - Feb ‘07), (Oct ‘07 – Feb ‘08) & (Nov ‘08 - Feb ‘09)

• Single Point of Contact (SPOC) in handling Annual Performance and Compensation Review.

• Engage with Group Rewards to identify the Business Performance Index (BPI) and thereby allocate the resource pool for each business.

• Partnered with BHR to conduct business performance meeting to formalize the performance pool for each region.

• Design guideline along with the BHR on performance and compensation.

• Facilitate throughout the Performance Management and Compensation cycle to ensure that the business managers are aligned to the guideline and ensure the bonus pool is optimally utilized.

• Conduct modeling to give a feel of the year end spends with respect to bonus and shares.

• Monitor and reconcile the annual bonus spent in each business.

• Played a key role in providing analytics and presentations on Senior Management’s recommendations to Group Rewards to facilitate decision making process.

Senior Analyst Business Solutions

(Mar 2007 to Sep 2007)

Implementation of PeopleSoft 8.9

Implementation of a complete lifecycle of PeopleSoft HRMS v8.9 which covers 5 core HR functions - Recruitment, Workforce Administration, Performance Management, ESS/MSS and Compensation.

• Implemented Core Compensation and Benefits module in PeopleSoft 8.9.

• Identified key business process and using process maps described them at a high level to prepare the structure document for implementation.

• Discussed and designed the processes with the Department Heads/Process owner.

• Designed the AS-IS and To-BE process with the help of Vendors/ PeopleSoft Process tools.

• Extensively involved in Fit-Gap Analysis.

• Involved in the identification of current customization/interfaces/reports, its purpose, usage and its feature and usage in PeopleSoft 8.9.

Online Compensation Review

• Development of an online real-time global compensation review system on PeopleSoft and utilize self service as a strong tool for reward related functions.

• Identify & define the key functional areas, design requirement, functional specs and prepare extensive documentation for the development, testing and user guide.

• Planning, & coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the developed Module and suggesting corrective measures.

Analyst – Global Processes

(Nov 2004 to Oct 2006)

Performance Management and Compensation Review

• Work closely with Group Reward for preparing project plan.

• Collate and validate recommendations received from the country.

• Prepare functional spec to the technical team for automation of the process.

• Convert system-generated data and reports into management information reports tailored to requirements and suitable for management decision making.

• Ensure compliance with the Audit plans and conducting Business Process Risk Assessment.

• Team Lead for Internal Audit.

Talent Management

• End to end implementation of Talent Management across Bank.

• Prepared functional spec to the technical team for requirement on spreadsheet generation.

• Collate recommendations on Talent and generate MIS and leveling reports.

• Generate and maintain Talent Profile.

Key Achievements:

• Initiated and successfully completed the amalgamation of Talent Management and Interim performance review process across the Bank.

Associate - Contact Centre

(Dec 2003 to Oct 2004)

• PeopleSoft Support & queries handling for employees across the globe within the SCB group in the area of Recruitment, Training and development, Payroll and benefits, Shares, Employee movement, Leave management & Talent Management.

Education:

• M A Social Work – Personnel Management, IR & Labor Welfare from D G Vaishnav College, 2001 – 2003.

Signature Themes – StrengthsFinder (The Gallup Organisation)

Individualization, Learner, Adaptability, Strategic, Analytical

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