Babu Varadarajan

Senior HR Business Partner (Associate Vice President) at Standard Chartered Group

• My current job since September 2005

Retail Banking including Contact Centre b) Corporate Affairs and c) Brand & Marketing with SCB Global

Regional HR Business Partner (Senior HRBP) at Standard Chartered GBS

• India - Chennai
• April 2008 to September 2012

Responsible to drive HR process for 500 + employees spread across 6 locations and 15 branches
Key responsibilities and achievements:
- Proactively drive focused participation/transformation through enhancing Leadership Capability
- Drive frontline capability for Branch Banking to enhance productivity including scorecard rollout for sales,
service & operations work force
- Responsible for hiring Branch Managers and other middle level management for the region
- Develop and drive delivery of engagement plan for the business, New Joiner Engagement through Focused
Group Discussions, One on One Branch visits, etc
- Responsible for driving retention agenda for the region
- Execute Country Talent Strategy for High-potentials including Talent Management, Development &
Succession Plan for critical roles
- Handled business integration of American Express Bank transition to SCB during the merger
- Responsible for Employee Relation issues including grievance management
Key achievements:
* Recognised as role model HRBP in the country by Country

HR Business Partner

• September 2005 to March 2008

Key responsibilities were in areas of
* Relationship Management for South & West Regions for Retail Banking Operations
* Recruitment of both Full time & Contract workforce, specific focus on D&I hiring
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* Responsible for Performance Management including managing performance for non- performers
* Talent identification and development
* Employee Engagement through initiatives like STANCFUSION, GTO Nite
* Aligned the Employee Engagement Survey (Gallup) from pen and paper to Digital as per group norm
* Employee Grievance and conduct issues
* Payroll process owner for Standard Chartered Finance Limited Operations (Subsidiary of SCB, India)
* Process owner to maintain Statutory Compliance for the subsidiary including ESI, PF, Statutory licenses
* D&I initiatives : Right to Sight and Lotus blind trust

at Sify Limited

• May 2000 to September 2005

HRBP for two SBUs independently which had volume of 60% of the entire organisation
* Responsible for Recruitment inlcuding Campus hiring and On-Boarding
* HR MIS for the business units
* Payroll systems and HR Operations

Finance Assistant

• June 1997 to April 2000