ASHOK KUMAR D

A leading IT solutions and services provider, specializing in software development, digital transformation, and IT consulting.

Core HR and Business Partnering

• Partner with leadership to drive HR strategy, workforce planning, succession planning, and organizational development.
• Lead culture-building, HR transformation, and change management initiatives to strengthen team effectiveness.
• Advise managers on performance, staffing, engagement, and people-related decisions.

Stakeholder Management and People Leadership

• Collaborate with business heads and cross-functional teams to support strategic workforce priorities.
• Coach managers, and promote an inclusive, high-performance, people-centric culture.

Performance Management and OKRs

• Implement KPI/OKR frameworks, and manage mid-year and annual performance cycles.
• Enable continuous feedback, coaching, and performance improvement initiatives.

Compensation, Benefits, and HR Operations

• Oversee payroll, statutory compliance, rewards programs, HR budgeting, and C&B activities.
• Drive salary benchmarking, job evaluation, and HR cost optimization initiatives.

HR Analytics, HRMS, and Automation

• Develop HR dashboards, MIS reports, and data-driven insights to support leadership decisions.
• Lead HRMS/ATS implementations (Zoho, GreytHR, and Keka) and automate HR workflows.

Employee Relations and Compliance

• Manage grievance handling, conflict resolution, disciplinary processes, investigations, and exits.
• Ensure compliance with labor law, visa and immigration processes, governance policies, and EOSB management.

Policies and Governance

• Develop, update, and implement HR policies, SOPs, and the employee handbook to ensure governance and compliance.

A financial services company established in the year 1983 and one of the fastest-growing discount brokers in India.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements

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• Partnered with leadership to align HR strategy with business goals, improving workforce performance and organizational effectiveness.
• Handled employee relations, grievance resolution, counseling, and disciplinary actions, while ensuring legal and policy compliance.
• Led organizational development initiatives, including succession planning, leadership development, and workforce planning.
• Strengthened company culture through engagement programs, recognition frameworks, and communication initiatives.
• Used HR analytics and performance insights to support decision-making and drive continuous improvement across teams.

Established in 1988, a leading professional services firm with four major verticals – Management Consulting, Audit and Assurance, Corporate Finance, and Taxation.

• Led comprehensive HR operations covering talent management, employee engagement, performance management, and policy implementation.
• Streamlined HR processes by identifying gaps, driving automation, and optimizing workflows to increase efficiency, and reduce costs.
• Managed end-to-end recruitment and onboarding, ensuring timely hiring, and smooth integration of new employees.
• Oversaw compensation and benefits, payroll administration, and vendor coordination.
• Ensured full legal and statutory compliance across HR practices, supporting governance, and audit requirements.

• Managed end-to-end hiring across multiple business functions, closing 250+ positions annually, with an average TAT improvement of 20–30% through strategic sourcing and process optimization.
• Designed annual hiring and campus recruitment strategies, partnering with 20+ premier institutes, resulting in 40–60 day-one hires every season.
• Strengthened employer branding and candidate engagement, improving offer-to-joining conversion rates by 15% to 25% across key roles.
• Automated IJP and recruitment workflows reduce manual processing time by 40% and increase overall process accuracy and transparency.
• Prepared monthly HR MIS dashboards and recruitment analytics, enabling leadership to make data-driven decisions, and supported audits with 100% compliance and timely closure of findings.