Khalid Sawalhi

• Partner with relevant HR and Business stakeholders to support the demand plan for Early careers, ensuring it is aligned to areas of strategic importance and there is a clear deployment pathway for the accelerator pipelines
• Execute the resourcing strategy for early careers in a specified Market to identify the highest potential candidates, reducing time to offer and increasing quality
• Create and execute employer brand and marketing strategies ensuring alignment with global brand strategy and standards, while addressing local market nuances
• Act as subject matter expert in early careers in various stakeholder forums. Partner with key stakeholders in specific Market to plan and execute early careers proposition in line with Bank wide standards.
• Meet effective KPIs to monitor effectiveness and return on investment in early career and talent accelerator initiatives and meet targets
• Execute strategies to continuously improve candidate experience and engagement throughout early careers recruitment cycle, in partnership with Lead, Early Careers Resourcing and leadership team
• Ensure effective delivery of services from our outsourced partner and challenge missed KPIs

Develop Talent

• Effectively deploy development activities relevant to candidate pipeline. Including but not limited to rotation planning, allocation of buddies, ongoing assessment, engagement events, inductions etc and create platforms for report back/senior visibility and alignment to market practises
• In partnership with the Lead, Talent Accelerators, manage any local country requirements that will support and enhance the global talent accelerator proposition and / or address any individual market needs. Eg) attrition/localisation agendas/untapped talent pools etc

Deploy Talent

• Ensure accelerator programmes within are deployed in a timely way into areas of strategic importance and meet needs of individual and business
• Partner with local HR teams to embed early careers talent pools into local talent management practices to ensure effective deployment of early careers and accelerator talent into areas of strategic importance
• Support relevant alumni activity in line with Bank wide standards, supplementing global activity with local engagement and communications activity where required

People and Talent

• Lead by example in setting tone and expectations of colleagues that is consistent with Valued Behaviours.Clearly define priorities and individual objectives for direct reports and virtual teams. Connect objectives and growth plans with strategic priorities of Bank and colleague aspirations
• Lead indirect and matrix teams (including third party sourcing partners) to deliver specific projects and deliverables as determined by relevant scorecard metrics and agreed functional priorities

• Oversee entire recruitment cycle with focus on UAE nationals (Managing campus events, short listing potential intern and graduate candidates as well as experienced candidates , coordinating online assessments and interviews while ensuring smooth on-boarding and induction of new hires)
• Act as point of contact between EY and government bodies such as MOHRE
• Create and implement recruitment strategies to attract bright and talented UAE nationals to EY Dubai to support in Nationalization
• Provide advice to business on best-in-class recruitment approaches, target campuses, market insights and impact on business recruitment hiring plans
• Responsible for coordinating with key stakeholders on nationalization metrics and targets for EY
• Display strong knowledge of all EY Service Lines to provide best in class service to business
• Update and revise HR policies & procedures and provide training and accurate guidance to employees and managers
• Offer expertise and leadership to improve branding and sourcing initiatives as well as talent management issues
• Created and revised job descriptions to underpin consistent, market-based systems
• Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement
• Manage and champion team's HRIS including change requests , escalations , testing and system improvement

• Coordinate technical interviews and communicate the employment status to the applicants
• Monitor the efficiency of the Recruitment agencies in terms of new hires quality, speed of the process and provide periodic feedback and recommendations
• Assist in background verification / reference checks
• Facilitate and supervise orientation procedures for all new hires
• Conduct thorough investigations of employee grievances and complaints.
• Update grievance progress and document it in the available systems.
• Develop and implement employment policies to guarantee consistent and fair treatment of employees
• Monitor and champion an internal customer service approach within the unit
• Enhance employees’ engagement and plan accommodation and store visits.
• Conducting exit interviews of candidates on separation
• Adopt and support the team in implementing any new projects that help in improving the day-to-day operations.

• Develop and maintain process and procedures for Training and Development section
• Develop training materials, forms, templates and e-learning contents and courses
• Act as a first point of contact for delegates, trainers and training providers, answering queries on course bookings and logistics
• Plan, process and administer all training requests and events (individual, group and in-house) providing efficient provision of logistical and administrative support
• Managed different dashboards to generate the necessary reports required by the business in different areas
• Arrange finance-related and procurement-related documents and approvals; i.e justification forms, purchase orders, contract approvals, invoice approvals, expense claims and reimbursement claims
• Assist with budget administration including recording and reporting
• Maintain up to date records and contact databases
• Recruitment & management of UAE nationals for the Almas Graduate Development Program for UAE graduates
• Coordinate with departments to bring in interns based on their needs and to manage the intern's documents and requirements to be brought into the organization
• Prepare feedback forms and certificates for interns along with JDs for their role in the department
• Monitor and manage the intern's attendance and other requirements that come from the Universities that they are brought it in from
• Receive and respond to general HR questions and concerns from managers and employees
• Assisted in workplace complaints and conducted appropriate investigations to resolve or escalate appropriately.
• Implemented a training program to explain HR policies/procedures/processes to provide accurate guidance to employees and managers

• Maintain high levels of efficiency during training by taking detailed notes and asking questions
• Learn new materials, processes and programs quickly to maximize performance
• Shadow senior team members to learn all related jobs
• Complete documentation and reports for business records.