Thilaga

Head of Department (220 staff)

Assistant Manager - July 23 -June 25

Senior Executive - Jan 20 - June 23

Talent Acquisition & HR Advisory

• Lead end-to-end recruitment cycle, sourcing, salary proposals, offers, extension of offer communications, negotiations, relocation and orientation processes.
• Partner with Business Units by providing excellent advisory on policies, processes, employment act and legislations queries .

Employee Relations & Culture Building

• Work collaboratively with Line managers and Management in employee relations issues, PIP, grievances, investigation processes, handling consequence management issues and preparing of P & C documents.
• Plan, Lead, Coordinate and Execute employee engagement events according to budgets approved.
• Lead employment surveys to understand areas of improvement in relocation, onboarding and orientation processes. Implement improvements for continuous excellence.

Performance Management

• Handle Performance Management Processes and facilitated trainings for Line Manager and staff on creating SMART goals.
• Processing of monthly payroll reports forecast changes and moving budget reports to Finance department.

HR Compliance & Legal Requirement

• Support business units with legislation queries, ensure high standards and compliance of local employment practices by meeting Employment Act, Tripartite and other regulators and accredits such as PEI (Private Education Institution) and CIS (Council of International schools).
• Familiarity in handling Payroll, regulatory requirements of CPF and IRAS, NS portal, EP online etc
• Support policy development and make amendment to current policies as needed.

Achievement : Re-engineered current recruitment, onboarding , relocation processes for optimize efficiency. Scored highest score in New Employee surveys and continuously exceeding expectations of Expat Teachers. Successful implementation of SMART goals on PM process. HR scored one the highest areas audit processes conducted by Council of International schools.

•Ensured timely fulfillment of manpower requirements for the college.

•Partnered (250 staff) with hiring managers to optimize Talent Acquisition, interview, selection, and offer processes.

•Executed international hiring activities, tracked and analyzed employee data to enhance hiring strategies.

•Provided expert advisory on HR functions, processes, and policies.

•Supported efforts to reduce hiring costs for teachers.

•Led process re-engineering of teachers' hiring and tenancy arrangements

Achievement : Subject matter expertise in supporting HRIS System implementation process. Successfully partnered with School leaders and line managers to optimize HR functions and provided advisory on HR policies, processes and regulations to support the department needs.

• Handled full spectrum of HR and managed employee life cycle activities

• Analyzed and understood hiring needs for various departments, facilitating the recruitment process.

• Conducted training needs analysis and processed training requisitions, ensuring alignment with staff's functional competencies.

• Managed the training budget and proposed cost-effective training courses..

• Led and facilitated Workplace Safety and Health meetings, including risk assessment.

• Planned and facilitated staff events and implemented workplace health promotion programs utilizing HPB grants.

Achievement : Promoted to Senior Executive. Successful implementation support in rolling out Balanced Scorecard and Core Competencies and Competency Framework.