Human Resources Manager
Arcadia School (Al Shirawi Group)
Total des années d'expérience :17 years, 5 Mois
• Headed a 34% staff reduction during the work from home period. Additionally, got senior management buy in to switch contract types for the next 30% staff wherein the company saved AED 1 million in potential notice period payment costs
• Implemented HCM Fusion-Oracle Cloud to bring more structure and streamline the HR business requirements additionally giving staff a more interactive portal and control over their data
• Introduced biometric sign in and out for staff to streamline the payroll process
• Formalised policies on internal transfers, absences, annual leave and recruitment for ISO 9001 process audit
• Collaborate with various stakeholders during the pre-opening of the secondary campus
• Facilitate transfer of clinic license, doctor and nurses to King’s College Hospital as the school signed an agreement with them
one academic year contract
• Report to the Bursar and manage a team of three HR Executives and two PROs
• Lead the team with the KHDA Teacher licensing initiative
• Worked closely on the design, test and go live stage of the iSams HRIS module implementation
• Reducing apartments and villas in school ownership by 26 units with employee buy in
• Support the PRO as DC was picked by MOL for early phase implementation of Emiratization
• Recruitment: Writing JD’s, putting adverts on job boards, screening candidates, reference checks, handle recruitment agency (as needed), prepare offer letter and contracts with utmost confidentiality
• Mitigating the gaps between the salaries and current benefits against the compensation and benefits policies
• Oversee renewals for various government licenses and staff residential accommodations in Dubai College’s name
• Managing change and implemented new policies for overseas recruitment, budgeting, welfare committee, absence management, overtime payment for blue collar staff
• Report to two C Level executives (School Director and Group Finance Manager) for my team of four
• *HR and Finance Executive from Oct 2009 -Aug 2012, doing all HR Generalist & Finance activities start to end*
• Manage and oversee 3 branches of The Children’s Garden which deals with the pre-school business of Taaleem
• Reduced employee turnover from 43% to 21% in two years thus savings onboarding overheads by 18% per annum
• Improvised grading scale criteria’s for Teachers and devised a grading scale for Teacher Assistants as well
• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders during the pre-opening stages of Jumeirah Baccalureate School (JBS) and Barsha branch of children’s garden (different years)
• Managing various government department licensing requirements like KHDA, DED, DHA, MOSA for multiple sites in liaison with the Government Relations Officer (PRO)
• Process payroll with components like salary, transport and housing/rent allowance, tuition fee for children, air fare, summer pay, professional development claims, increments
• Manage monthly cash flow, petty cash, facilities claims and supplier LPO’s
• Supported preparations of audit, budget forecast, headcount allocation, credit control policies
• External vendor management for various administrative and compliance needs of the company
• Report to the Global Head of Strategy managing the Middle East and North Africa - MENA region and South East Asia- SEA region
• Monthly progress report collation on Business Initiatives and Balanced scorecard for seven business groups across nine countries
• Consistent discussions with business development and product development teams to come up with new market offering in the Islamic banking segment
• Collate an Amanah specific product development table with gaps across the geographies to replicate products
• Initiated & build a knowledge database named “Central Repository” which proved to be a common platform for communication across the various Amanah regions
• Gathering business intelligence data via market research, primary and secondary sources online as well as approaching competitors through retail channels
• Collected growth forecasts, document supporting proof for feasibility study, prepare SWOT and PEST Analysis
• Evaluate cost benefit analysis and ROI for the incentive and mobility programs in different regions
Was the youngest promoted employee with 3 promotions in 3.5 years
• Streamlined the back end processing policies for Mashreq Millionaire applications across UAE, Qatar and Bahrain
• Assessing credit risk for salaried and self-employed applicants based on current banking behavioral profile
• Assigning credit limits based on validator’s assessment additionally keeping margins for collection scoring
• Recommend cases for onsite borrower verification where data is variedly skewed
Data Validation Analyst, Credit Initiation & Compliance
• Constraint checks based on customer debt profile and company rating in the bank’s credit system
• Engage as quality control, provide recommendations for credit appraisal, verify supporting documents against data entry, campaign code and highlight discrepancies
Document Controller, Credit Initiation & Compliance
• Numbering, sorting, filing, cataloging, storage and retrieval of both electronic and hard copy documents
• Creating a tracking log of approved, retried and archived documentation
• Weekly MIS reflecting thus impacting turnaround time, campaigns code usage, sales team wise submission and rejection rate
• 2010: Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management
• 2007: Bachelor of Commerce attained from Indira Gandhi University, Dubai
Grade 12