Shiza Siddiqui

• Managed employee relations, investigating and resolving conflicts to maintain a positive work environment.
• Oversaw payroll functions, ensuring accuracy while maintaining strict confidentiality standards for sensitive employee information.
• Enhanced employee retention by implementing effective onboarding and training programs.
• Improved workplace culture through the development and implementation of diversity initiatives.
• Promoted a culture of continuous learning through the coordination of professional development opportunities and workshops for employees at all levels within the organization.
• Streamlined HR processes for increased efficiency with the use of HRIS systems.
• Conducted internal investigations related to harassment claims and other workplace conflicts, providing resolutions that preserved the integrity of the company''s values.
• Coordinated immigration process for visa and green card applications to support mobility requests for domestic and international long and short-term assignments.

• Strategizing annual HR plans and budgets; collaborating with HR senior management and C-suite for developing HR function and infrastructure-planning, resourcing, deploying, expansion and retention.
• As a trusted partner deeply engrained in the business, works closely with centers of expertise across the global People Team to deliver people programs and services aligned to business needs. This includes leadership capability, people development, organizational design, performance management, change management, talent management, talent acquisition, culture, and total rewards.
• Act as an employee champion and a change agent .
• Gains credibility and tailors solutions utilizing strong business literacy about the company’s financial position, its midrange plans, its culture, and its competition
• Partner with leaders to improve work relationships, build morale, ensure an inclusive culture, and increase productivity and retention.
• Collaborating with leaders to instill a high-performance culture. Effectively develop metrics, analytics, and insights to tailor interventions to drive people performance
• Drive employee relations and employee life cycle management
• . Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues timely and discreetly .
• As the Centre of HR excellence regional expert, champion regional needs and provides guidance to the business partner team.
• As a team player on the broader HR team, contributes to projects, improves processes, and rolls up sleeves to do what’s needed to ensure excellent service and results
• Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through the development of innovative solutions.
• Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
• Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
• Conduct weekly interventions with the stakeholders.

Talent Acquisition

• Ensured end-to-end hiring across all levels as per the defined TAT
• Collaborate with Resourcing competency center and Business for ensuring a healthy source mix and support the hiring initiative
• Conducted HR Interaction with shortlisted candidates and manage pre-joining and post-joining interactions.
• Maintaining and monitoring headcount as per the budget

Performance Management and compensation cycles:

• Effective implementation of PMS, OOC
• Ensured differentiation for optimizing performance and motivation

Employee retention and attrition management

• Engaged with business stakeholders to plan and implement effective retention measures
• Support business to meet attrition objectives
• Talent retention
• Process owner for headcount management for the relevant department

Business partner for HR Projects / Processes

• HR partner in projects like business transformation, resource management, Headcount budgeting, etc
• Investigation and closure of any employee issues – PIP process, Absconding cases, etc
• Implementation of R&R program & engagement initiatives
• Provide data analysis for the relevant departments, as and when required by functional management and Global teams
• Transversal collaboration with Global HRBPs, Extended HR teams like C&B, People Development, HR shared services, etc.
• Managed employee onboarding and off boarding in line with local regulations
• Drive the company culture
• Be highly involved in on-site office management
• Invested in stakeholder management - by being the connection
• Built processes & procedures to gain efficiency
• Worked closely with the CEO and VP HR on people topics and employee relations
• Employee engagement and Employee Experience- includes events organization and making sure everything runs smoothly
• Managed and prioritized to respond to a high volume of queries and requests for HR administration and facilities

• Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
• Provided the best solution for Recruitment process, worked on RPO model to ease the work for other recruitment agencies. Primarily for US staffing and other UK and UAE based corporate.
• Established foundational processes for business operations.
• Aligned organizational objectives with company mission to increase business growth and integrate work strategies.
• Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
• Formed senior leadership team through rigorous interviews and extensive candidate research.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired new staff members and developed training materials for employees.
• Networked with other businesses and customers to increase sales opportunities and contacts.
• Collaborated with development teams, internal customers, and product line management to verify delivery of desired quality requirements to distributors.
• Established and administered annual budget with controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate, and support sustainability objectives.

• Advised executives on best practices for employee growth and productivity goals, consistently helping companies improve retention.
• Contributed to business and HR functions by identifying, prioritizing and building organizational capabilities, behaviors, structures and processes.
• Built HR consulting capabilities focused on clients undergoing organizational change and development.
• Facilitated cultural integration planning and developed strategies to foster employee engagement and commitment.
• Provided human resources, recruiting and resource allocation guidance in commercial consulting environment.
• Assisted and guided clients on HR procedures and program development by devising performance evaluations, job descriptions and industry-standard salary ranges.
• Developed and launched highly successful cultural and gender diversity programs.
• Facilitated onboarding sessions and on-the-job training for new hires bolstering position knowledge and skillset.
• Performed budget analysis to control expenditures and predict future budget needs.
• Structured compensation and benefits according to market conditions and budget demands.
• Partnered with leaders on HR and business functions using consultative approach to proactively identify and address issues and concerns.
• Liaised between multiple business divisions to improve communications.
• Drove change management practices to enable organizational effectiveness and incorporate diversity and inclusion strategy to foster culture of inclusion to maximize competitive advantage and skills of workforce.

• Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks.
• Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance to handle US HR operations from India.
• Managing the background verification process, vendor management, corporate HR responsibilities, employee connect and employee engagement for US and India.
• Ensured all back-end HR operational processes are managed well in terms of TAT, accuracy, frequency & compliance leading to seamless service delivery.
• Maintaining personnel files and records of the operations pertaining to HR in the HRMS.
• Generating & scrutinizing the MIS reports and HR dashboards for workforce planning, attrition management, scenario analysis, performance reviews, compensation delivery and so on
• Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through the development of innovative solutions.
• Planning and conducting employee engagements & development programs such as recognition ceremonies, inclusion & diversity sessions annual party celebration, festival celebration, family day; ensuring prompt resolution of employee grievances & maintaining cordial employee relations
• Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
• Cultivated interpersonal skills by building positive relationships with others.
• Developed strong organizational and communication skills through coursework and volunteer activities.
• Maintaining the PeopleSoft HR modules

• Reworked New-Hire orientation program to include HR information and company resources.
• Helped define the recruiting life cycle to help train talent acquisition specialists
• Designed E-Separation Module for automatic resignation acceptance and procedure, launching it organization wide to make separation a completely automated process
• Co-developed automated Service letter generation, doing away with manual intervention of HR entirely.
• Wrote Employee Manual covering issues including disciplinary procedures, code of conduct and benefits information.
• Maintaining the PeopleSoft HR modules: bug fixing, UATs and systems update.
• Assisting the HR user community with efficient and effective use of HRMS.
• Involved in standardization of processes-Onboarding, Offboarding, Training and development.
• Gained extensive exposure of successfully automating manual HR processes - employee lifecycle