Ashwin Prasad

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led talent acquisition for non-tech verticals at Navi.
  • Implemented HRIS solutions at Ujjivan.
  • Managed recruitment strategies to enhance hiring efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the Fintech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruiting StrategyData AnalysisProcess ImprovementTalent Integration

Other Skills

AnalysisApplicant Tracking SystemsBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness PlanningBusiness StrategyCRMCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer ServiceEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsEngagement FrameworkEnglishFeedback ManagementFinancial Analysis

About

Have been in the Talent Acquisition , Talent Management and HR Analytics space in my 8+ years Career. Through my journey with Ujjivan I have moved from being an Individual Contributor to a Team Manager for an entire Region. Been part of the core teams twice for HRIS Implementations at Ujjivan, from a Recruitment perspective and also been an SME for the recruitment process. Currently strategizing , leading teams and driving results for the entire end to end Talent Acquisition activities of the Non tech verticals at Navi.

Experience

11 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Cred

2 roles

talent and culture

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • leading the efforts in building and growing the tech teams for CRED, with a very high focus on increasing talent density and play the role of gatekeepers for this input, while the organization scales.
  • enable, nurture, and grow the talent acquisition team to bring in a high-quality input-focused approach and help hire the right talent for businesses/stakeholders to achieve their desired outcomes more efficiently.
  • be conscious keepers and enable stakeholders to make more calibrated decisions that fit our end objective as a talent and culture function overall.

talent and culture

Dec 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • lead the Hiring for the lending business and leadership hirings at CRED.

Navi

Heading Talent Acquisition - Non Tech

Mar 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managing the entire Talent Acquisition activities for all the Non Tech Verticals across all businesses of Navi.
  • Driving Recruiting strategy and execution of hiring numbers for the all Non Tech verticals of the organization.
  • Automating recruitment Dashboards and presenting of key recruitment finding and learning to top Management.
  • Driving process improvement programs in the team to improve key recruiting metrics.
  • Building a robust independent team to drive any new scaling challenges
  • Spearheading the team to hire entry level roles and to drive leadership hiring personally
  • Managing all sources and closely monitoring Source Mix , conversion ratios, top of the funnel strategies
Talent AcquisitionRecruiting StrategyProcess ImprovementTeam ManagementData Analysis

Ujjivan small finance bank limited

3 roles

Manager Talent Integration

Feb 2020Mar 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Responsible for developing, executing and managing an engagement framework for candidates from post offer to confirmation stage post Joining in the candidate/employee life cycle.
  • Creating and execution of trainings for all relevant stakeholders for a seamless execution of the engagement framework.
  • Responsible for managing infant attrition rates directly attributable to Talent integration issues.
  • Seeking feedback through surveys from employees on regular intervals on their integration with the organization and revise the process based on the feedbacks received.
Engagement FrameworkTraining ExecutionFeedback ManagementTalent Integration

Manager Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Apr 2018Feb 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Ensuring timely branch rollouts of branches in terms of hiring, training and productive manpower for new or converting branches
  • Managing critical conversations with CXOs, national and regional managers personally and with my team
  • Enhancement of the HRMS implementation and UAT for rest of the software updates and providing the requisite trainings to the corporate and regional HR teams.
  • Work in close connect with the Employee engagement team and help them with their activities and visiting of branches for inputs;
  • One-on-one conversations with the employees to understand their work execution & team related challenges; Helping them with viable solutions.
  • Actively participate in department representative meetings to address and understand employee grievances
  • Managing 10 campus recruitment activities in coordination with the corporate HR team on a yearly basis
  • Preparation of HR MIS for the south region along with attrition and other HR issue root cause analytics
  • Supporting and representing RHR in presentation and meeting activities
HRMS ImplementationEmployee EngagementRecruitment ManagementTalent Acquisition

Assistant Manager Talent Acquisition

Apr 2015Apr 2018 · 3 yrs

  • Handling complete Talent Acquisition activities for the south region at Ujjivan Small Finance Bank. Handling a mid sized Talent Acquisition team, keeping track of team activities, managing RPO staffs, provide monthly MIS, updation on latest progress and ensuring complete adherence to recruitment processes through my team and other employee engagement HR team members involved in field hiring in the states.
  • Forsee future recruitment strategies based on budgets, inter departmental interactions, business continuity and business contingencies.
  • Ensuring complete Manpower readiness from senior regional managers to the level of Branch Banking staffs under the region on stringent timelines.
  • Taken through a insightful training program along with the National and Regional leadership teams on the behavioural Interviewing skills and trained the same program to the state level Hiring managers in the region.
  • Have been the Subject matter expert for the recruitment module in HRMS, where I had to spearhead the entire process from requirement gathering stage to the implementation stage and ensuring sufficient training of this module to our recruitment teams across other regions at Ujjivan.
  • Handling various projects under the Regional HR manager from time to time, organization change management from NBFC to Banking ranging from Employee engagement programs across the region, internal performance management, grievance redressal, operational process improvements, disciplinary and background verification, interrogation processess and monitoring HR processes for it's effectiveness and efficacy.
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Process ManagementTeam Coordination

Royal mysore walks

2 roles

Part Time Tour Guide and Assistant Marketing head

Jun 2013Jan 2014 · 7 mos

  • Worked part time with the company, providing Cycle tours in and around Mysore. Also helping in developing Marketing strategies and increasing Sales for the company.
Marketing StrategiesSales Development

Internship at Royal Mysore Walks on Mysore Tourism

Apr 2013Jun 2013 · 2 mos

  • A Market research on the behaviourism, the present facilities and other expectations of the elite tourists of Mysore. Based on the findings of the research suggestions on what could be improved, possible potential places of tourist attractions and other revenue models for tourism.
Market Research

Education

SDM Institute for Management Development

PGDM — Human Resources Management and Marketing

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Vvce

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Jan 2006Jan 2012

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