Akshatha Shivaraj

Leading Talent Acquisition across Finance, Procurement, HR Functions.

• Facilitation, implementation and management of all phases of recruitment cycle.
• Established a strong partnership with senior leaders through regular hiring cadences every week and provide insights on forecast, market intelligence and competency mapping for niche skills.
• Accountable for managing the entire gamut of recruitment cycle including pipeline (resume) screening /processing, market intelligence, HR discussions, Salary Negotiations, etc. Sourcing profiles from the job site like Naukri.com, Monster.com, LinkedIn, Internal Database & through Employee References as per the Job Description and requirement.
• Sending daily/ weekly report to hiring managers regarding hiring status for their teams • Managing scheduling of resources for their respective resource pool, undertaking critical set of processes which helps to identify and propose right talent from a resource pool to ensure fulfillment of all open roles and for managing /monitoring people productivity targets.
• Understanding project assumptions and priorities (including demand priority) for roles Accountable for filling roles assigned to their resource pools and for getting their people staffed Discussing with business on project requirements and process resumes accordingly. Opening approved requisitions on Internal System (Workday).
• Updating the system (Workday) with the interview feed backs and offers & close the requisition after the candidate joins.

Leading Talent Acquisition across Central/Technology group.

• Evaluated resumes, interviewed, and presented qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
• Developed and maintained strong working relationships with executives, HR team, and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.
• Created and distributed job postings on job boards, corporate career sites and social media networks to increase reach.
• Collaborated with hiring managers to determine job requirements and understand departmental needs.
• Compiled reports on recruiting activity to illustrate time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and source of hire.
• Built relationships with external recruiters and staffing agencies to access quality talent.

• Act as consultant to Leadership team, Career Counselors and Managers to manage people engagement, issues and retention strategies.
• Steering the Performance Management Cycle for 3500+ employees to achieve their career goals and aspirations, ensuring adherence to all KPIs for the business line (Delivery group) by ensuring adherence to timelines enabling accurate and fair reward decisions.
• Advocate Ethical practices, guide and coach talent leads, and group leads on their roles and responsibilities.
• Spearheaded design and implementation of various compensation activities.
• Advised executives to efficiently deploy compensation tools on base pay increases while accounting for overall business impact.
• Orchestrated off-cycle compensation process, targeting critical talent for bonuses, base salary increases, and other incentives to ensure retention of top employees.
• Managing performance roll off reviews for employees. Investigating with employee, project and the leads on performance of the employee and proving a final recommendation for employee along with rationale for the recommendation.
• Managing international mobilization and transnational issues related to employees.
• Managed Onboarding process for Accenture India for Leadership levels as well as led 8-member team to plan and supervise end to end onboarding process.