May 2024 – Dec 2024 · 7 mos · Pune / Hyderabad/ Bengaluru · On-site

• Strategise, build & deliver leadership hiring practice for AGS in India.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across clients, geographies and play an active role in setting up and delivering leadership roles for AGS RPO.
• Lead team of executive recruiters and talent insights professionals to deliver roles across RPO projects.
• Current project : Leading a team of professionals to hire leadership roles for one of the largest banking GCC in the world.
• Hands on search delivery for CXO/MD/MD-1 roles. (Head Hunting & Networking)
• Engaging executive search/ retained search agencies to deliver roles.
• Hiring for Director/ Senior Director levels across different functions :
• Technology (principal architects, platform architects, head of engineering, Cyber Security, Identity & Access Management , Risk technology, CTO, etc.)
• Finance (Accounting, Audits, FP& A, Controllers, Fund Servicing, Accounting & Administration etc)
• ,- Risk (Market Risk, Credit Risk, Mid Office Risk, VaR, Regulatory Risk, SOX, Operations risk etc.)
• Analytics (Consumer Analytics, Fraud Analytics, Card Analytics, Retail Analytics, AI &ML etc.)
• Quant (Quant Modeling, Model Building, Validation, Black-Scholes, Monte Carlo, CAPM , Stochastic Var etc.)

Apr 2018 – Feb 2024 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

• Latest Project : Head - RPO for Wells Fargo (Finance & Analytics Roles)
• Design, execute, and refine the recruitment strategies for Wells Fargo banking roles (Financial Operations, Corporate Finance, Risk, Analytics, Data Science and Quant roles).
• Manage a team of talent acquisition specialists, processes, and day-to-day operations that drive recruiting strategy.
• Successfully set up & operated leadership hiring practice under RPO project.
• Advisor to the stakeholders and support them in driving the vision, forecast, capacity utilization, fulfilment and implementing innovative solutions to solve operational problems.
• Lead operational teams, change management, drive performance metrics for processes and individuals.
• Drive teams morale and productivity, provide direction.
• Responsible for mentoring, and coaching, implement training and development plans, and succession planning.
• Overall Randstad Sourceright Role :
• Partner & deliver RPO projects, drive business growth and manage executive relationships.
• Strategize and execute total talent solutions, drive employer branding, build talent communities, set up data analytics and technology platforms.
• Lead digital transformation, identify & implement technology to solve complex talent acquisition challenges through Recruitment Process Automation (CRM/AMS , AI based Candidate Assessments, Video Interviewing Platforms, Talent Communities, Dashboards & Interview Scorecards , Candidate & Hiring Manager Surveys, Market Insights).
• Advisory & Solution's on internal mobility, diversity hiring & employer branding.
• leadership OR C Level / Executive Level hiring for RPO clients.
• Deploying solutions that improve efficiency, time, and cost-of-delivery.
• Build high performance team to deliver exceptional client experience.
• Industry: Banking, Fintech, & Pharmaceutical GCC’s .
• OTT & IT Product tech hubs

Mar 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune Area, India

• Key Deliverables
• Implement & Deliver Allegis RPO for MasterCard in India.
• Own & Manage RPO SLA's, Costing & Budgeting.
• Monthly, Quarterly & Yearly Governance reviews with management.
• Drive RPO team to ensure staffing deliverables are met as per client /business expectations.
• Stake holder management and support deployment of roles/skills to India.
• Meet staffing goals on key metrics including - Hiring volumes, Time to fill, Cost per hire.
• HRIS & Management Reporting to a broad range of stakeholders.
• Create and build delivery team/expertise for West Region (Pune/Mumbai) for Allegis.
• Highlights/ Achievements:
• Set up the RPO (green field) and delivered beyond clients expectation.
• Over achieved gender diversity target.
• Successfully managed the transition of recruiting from Kenexa to Workday.

Apr 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Developing and managing strong consultative relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Own & Manage RPO SLA's, Costing & Budgeting.
• Strategies and support new deployment roles/skills to India.
• Advised managers on all aspects of recruitment to generate quality talent through the selection process.
• Built and maintained strong relationships with key executives, hiring managers to provide full cycle recruitment service including pre-posting assessment and search strategy development, posting/sourcing, interviewing & testing/assessment administration through to offer and hire.
• Streamlining and optimizing recruiting operations and on-boarding processes.
• Developing talent pipeline to meet future demands of the business.
• Successfully delivered projects on talent attraction, talent retention and graduate hiring programs.
• Independently manage leadership hiring.
• HRIS & Management Reporting to a broad range of stakeholders.
• Process owner for TALEO & Recruitment activities

May 2012 – Apr 2013 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Map, Scope & Build relationship with prospective accounts in the BFS space for recruitment services.
• Manage large accounts in Banking & Financial Services Space.
• Partner with BFS clients to deliver needs, demands & meet their manpower & hiring objectives.
• Engaging client’s to fulfill their needs through finding the right talent & on boarding them with assistance of a recruitment team.
• Built expertise in BFS to assist Allegis recruitment delivery team (COE) in Bangalore.
• Technologies:
• Murex, Vision Plus, Java Technologies, Microsoft Technologies, Databases, Datawarehousing warehousing, Finacle etc.
• Roles:
• Architects, Designers, Product Managers, Project Managers, Delivery Heads, Business Analysts.

Sep 2005 – May 2012 · 6 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Acquisition & Management of Large corporate accounts in the space of KPO, Consulting & BFSI domain.
• Managing executive relationships, financials, quality and satisfaction and transactions for a portfolio of existing and prospect Clients/Candidates.
• Support the quality delivery of recruitment services while assuring customer satisfaction, self-sufficiency and effectiveness.
• Developing appropriate contacts at target executives, companies and a track record of successful execution of negotiations, due diligence and closing.
• Market development plans, shaping propositions and sales campaigns to close significant recruitment deals.
• Focus on business concepts such as leadership, employee engagement, and business alignment.
• Develop Corporate, Industry information through market intelligence.
• Skills:
• Investment Banking : Research (Equity, Fixed Income), Quant Modeling, Derivatives Structuring, Modeling,
• Analytics : Consumer, Web, Marketing, Risk, Predictive, Portfolio.
• Finance & Accounting : Taxation (US, UK), Audit, Product Control, Legal Entity Controllership.
• Legal : IPR, Patents, Compliance.