Lavanya Neelakantam

Directed and managed end-to-end recruitment operations for blue
collar and senior-level positions, covering job advertising, CV
screening, structured interviews, assessments, and offer management.
Successfully handled offer negotiations, Offer issuance, pre-boarding,
onboarding formalities.
Independently sourced, recruited, and onboarded 150+ employees
across multiple hiring models, including direct hiring, KOC-seconded
staff, third-party outsourcing, and Kuwaitization .
Strengthened talent pipelines by expanding sourcing channels through
partnerships with recruitment agencies and local universities,
enhancing access to diverse candidate profiles across technical,
administrative, and operations roles.
Oversaw skills testing, ATS (Applicant Tracking System) managed in
excel & dashboards .
Presenting detailed recruitment reports to senior HR leadership,
Tracked and analyzed recruitment KPIs such as Time-to-Fill, Offer
Acceptance Rate, Offer Rejection Rate, and Onboarding Turnaround,
using data-driven recruitment matrices.

Played a pivotal role in managing recruitment, payroll, performance
management, and HR operations.
Led the implementation of a performance management system aligned
with departmental KPIs, enabling consistent quarterly tracking and
reporting.
Executed end-to-end recruitment processes and supported a
successful payroll system migration from Oracle to Odoo, including
data migration and UAT across multiple modules.
Processed monthly payroll for 130+ employees, handling status
changes, leave settlements, final payments, and liaising with Finance
on indemnity and accruals.
Managed biometric attendance enrollment for new hires, conducted
exit interviews, and updated HR policies.
Maintained comprehensive HR database and personnel administration,
overseeing employee lifecycle events such as resignations, disciplinary
actions, time and attendance, overtime, and grievance handling,
ensuring policy compliance and data accuracy.

Managed Onboarding transactional activities for employees and
contingent workers, ensuring timely and accurate data transactions
Be the first point of contact for all process-related queries/issues and
ensure the data transactions worked by team are getting audited
internally.
Ensure process-related SOPs are documented and updated &
reviewed on a periodic basis.
Ensuring SLA compliance in transactional activities.
Led HR projects, ensuring compliance with deadlines and SLAs.
Managed testing activities on Oracle (Pay Elements, Recruiting Cloud,
Core HR) and played a key role in CRP and User Testing.
Liaise with the teams, recruitment, HRBPs, HRIT.

Delivered payroll services for 4000+ using Oracle HRMS, including
attendance tracking, salary updates, final settlements, and monthly
reconciliations ensured accuracy and compliance in Oracle.
Delivered payroll induction sessions for new joiners and prepared HR
documents such as experience letters, salary certificates, transfer
memos, and salary transfer letters.
Coordinated with IT and HRMS teams for system issues and
contributed to UAT testing for payroll functionality
Provided administrative support to the HR Services team and Regional
HRS Managers across Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran,
including report preparation, tender documentation, and organizational
structure updates, roll outHR Communications and HR audits.
Supported regional HR teams across Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and
Syria with reports, audit preparation, and organizational updates.
Managed insurance operations, including annual policy renewals,
reissuance of medical cards, claim form verification, and coordination
with the Finance Department for payment processing and
reconciliation for employees and dependents.