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Nidhi Arora
Management Consulting
London
Summary
Seasoned Human Resources professional with specialization in HR Consulting and Compensation Management. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in Big 4 consulting organizations. Strengths in Total Rewards and HR M&A backed by certifications from Chartered Management Institute (ChMC) and WorldatWork.org (CCP, GRP).
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Manager
Ernst & Young UK&I
01.2022 - Current
- Prepared detailed transaction materials, including pitch books, confidential information memorandums, and management presentations.
- Streamlined due diligence processes for efficient deal execution and reduced time to completion.
- Implemented rigorous quality control measures throughout all phases of the M&A process to ensure accuracy and completeness of work product.
- Identified synergies and cost-saving opportunities during post-merger integration planning stages for increased profitability postacquisition.
- Championed change management initiatives, leading teams through periods of transition or organizational restructuring with minimal disruption to productivity.
- Supported clients through workforce restructuring efforts, ensuring minimal disruption to day-to-day operations while maximizing long-term benefits.
Manager II, Organizational Transformation
PwC - India Acceleration Center
9 2019 - 12.2021
- HR Due Diligence: Workforce Analysis, Executive Arrangements, 280G (Parachute Payments) Analysis, Health & Welfare Plans, Waterfall Analysis, Final Reporting on Quality of Earnings for HR assets.
- Leadership Talent Management Analysis: Culture diagnostics at the target's top management level to ascertain value creation levers for the buyer.
- Post Merger Integration: Liaison with Legal on SOX, TUPE/ARD, local legislations across the globe. Creation of transaction service agreements to ensure all seamless transition.
- People Analytics: Labor Cost Optimization Models to control costs and optimize spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
- Job Architecture: Organization restructuring, salary benchmarking and skill-bank creation by job profile for multiple clients. Exhaustive analysis related to salary structuring, spans and layers, internal equity and market competitiveness.
- People Management: Hiring, coaching, training and resource allocation responsibilities for a team of 20 members.
Senior Consultant, Compensation Strategies
Deloitte Consulting
09.2016 - 09.2019
- Job Architecture: Consolidation of workforce structure through job organization. Created tools, process flows and templates enabling job-mapping to new structures. Led HR Business Partner workshops to quantify job employee impacts and assisted with change management process
- Human Capital M&A: Due diligence related to all people restructuring across the organization. Post-merger integration cost analysis, HRIS implementation and determination of factors considered in transaction service agreements for various entities across the globe. Harmonization of compensation and benefits plans.
- Global Equity Compensation Administration: Defining business processes for operation of long-term incentive plans in global conglomerates. Implementation of long-term incentives programs and policies involving external vendors.
Assistant Manager, Compensation
Deloitte US India Firms
04.2013 - 09.2016
- Guided business leadership in navigating complexities of international compensation considerations leveraging understanding of diverse cultural and socio-economic issues, local labor laws, taxation and employee expectations.
- Managed annual payouts for merit rewards, sales commissions and bonus programs. Implemented year-end activities including guidelines setup in ADP tool, spend analysis and reconciliation with Finance on budgets/accruals and actual spend by business.
- Managed market survey identification, job evaluation and survey submission across business for markets based on function.
- Other analysis: Campus hiring rates and range analysis, federal-specific (Washington DC) and geo-differential analysis, regression analysis to identify pattern in attrition vs compensation, macro-planning and salary increase forecasting based on aged market data and flash survey results.
Feature Writer, Editorial
People Matters Media
06.2012 - 03.2013
- Worked with writers to assist with story development and research. Coordinated with editors and graphic designers to plan page layouts.
- Research-based writing on various HR-related topics varying from B-school hiring agenda, gamification, employer branding, employee engagement, second careers etc.
- All articles/research papers available on www.peoplematters.in/author/nidhi-arora
Senior Compensation Analyst
Aon Hewitt
05.2008 - 01.2012
- Audit, valuation and reporting of executive and non-executive positions’ compensation data for a flagship survey. Exhaustive research and understanding through publicly available documents (def. 14A, 10-K) and client relationship management.
- Custom compensation benchmarking studies for clients with focus on executive pay design. Project management and delivery of US Compensation Policies and Programs Report – premier product on compensation plans’ design and analysis
- Led a team of 9 associates − Global Rewards System/Project Fusion - Implementation and execution of new technology/survey platform for managing information globally
Education
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
Kirori Mal College
06.2005 - 05.2008
Skills
- Organizational Restructuring
Talent Management
Incentive Valuations
Data Visualization
Culture Transformation
Certification
CCP, WorldatWork
Software
Alteryx
Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint
G-Suite
Timeline
ChMC, CMI
08-2024
Manager
Ernst & Young UK&I
01.2022 - Current
CCP, WorldatWork
09-2021
GRP, WorldatWork
09-2021
Senior Consultant, Compensation Strategies
Deloitte Consulting
09.2016 - 09.2019
Assistant Manager, Compensation
Deloitte US India Firms
04.2013 - 09.2016
Feature Writer, Editorial
People Matters Media
06.2012 - 03.2013
Senior Compensation Analyst
Aon Hewitt
05.2008 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
Kirori Mal College
06.2005 - 05.2008
Manager II, Organizational Transformation
PwC - India Acceleration Center
9 2019 - 12.2021
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