Harika Avula
Dallas,Texas
Summary
A highly motivated, self-initiator, performance-oriented mid-senior level HR professional with Computer Science Engineering background with over 7 years of work experience in corporate HR. Embody strong analytical, critical thinking, interpersonal and communication skills together with the ability to discharge multiple responsibilities efficiently in a dynamic work environment independently or as part of a team. Highly effective at maintaining strong and productive employee relations. Skilled in training, consensus-building and conflict management in all areas of human resources.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. HR Generalist
Buzzfeed
12.2020 - 03.2021
- HR Business Partners Support: Collaborate and support multiple HR Business Partners in successfully operating day to day HR activities for Content Org, Buzfeed.com and Social Media/Publishing Groups, Technology and Admin Groups
- Support client group of 300 full time employees
- Employee Relations: Actively involved in end to end employee relations investigation from data input taking, to leading conversations with parties to closing case by providing comprehensive resolution
- Risk Assessment: Successfully created templates for risk assessment for discussion with business leaders and conducted postpartum analysis and shared findings with executive leadership
- Client Support: Provide level 1 support to employees in content org and troubleshoot any issues they may have and partner with client group leaders in regular cadence to build partnership and regularly share team data dashboards (terminations, hiring, PTO balances etc.)
- Group Aliases Support: Handle company wide incoming employee requests coming in HRBP support alias and canidothis
- Alias and provide resolution within 24 hour lead time
- Reporting/Dashboards: Built, Audited and analyzed time off balances report for BF employees and devised communication plan to notify all people managers
- Corrected all errors reported by managers in workday and cleaned HRIS system for data accuracy in record time
- Workday: Responsible for processing all employee data changes in HRIS system
- Processed spot bonuses, Job changes, terminations, promotions, title changes, Relocation requests, Maintained all employee records/data in workday during employee life cycle i.e., from hiring to offboarding
- Ensured data accuracy and transparency during all times
- Offboarding: Executing exit interviews at various levels across BuzzFeed and provide post interview feedback to business leaders and HRBP
- Complex Networks and Huffington Post Acquisition Support: Worked closely with HRBP's in successfully integrating HP business in Buzzfeed in various areas –Exit interviews with impacted employees, onboarding, contract approvals, I-9s verifications within 72 hours of hiring
HR Coordinator
Activision | Blizzard
09.2018 - 12.2020
- HR Business Partners Support: Collaborated and supported 4 HR business partners in successfully operating day to day HR activities
- Processed high volume promotions, employee data changes, compensation changes within minimum lead time
- HR Core Functions Implementation: Collaborated with Talent & OD, HRIS and Business partners to successfully execute and Launch talent planning, annual performance process in workday
- Identified process improvement for overall talent planning process in Workday which saved numerous human hours across Company globally and increased efficiency
- Employee Communications: Won accolades for project managing, drafting announcement content, maintaining distribution lists, building process framework, and developed communication plan for promotion announcements for Activision in 2019
- Caught up lag of 80 promotions within 2 months timeframe
- Workday: Expertise on workday Interface and serve as a single point of contact for all business partners in Activision for troubleshooting any client issues
- Successfully audited, regrouped business groups, reviewed, and implemented employee data cleanup in workday
- Reporting/Dashboards: Built and analyzed various complex reports in workday for talent planning, performance reviews, goal setting process, compensation, termination reports and to provide insights to executive leadership team
- Activision Blizzard Onboarding Project: Worked with cross functional teams to redesign portal design and did site content mapping for revamping, designing, and launching new player onboarding portal across operating company to enrich onboarding experience for all new hires
- Cross Functional Collaborator and team player: Successfully Liaison and worked closely with HR Operations, HR Technology, Employee communication, IT, and clients to resolve employee issues within 24-hour window
- Holds acknowledgement from team to resolve 98% of issues within time
- Org Charts: Streamlined and process improved org charts to reduce manual work and man hours in manually formatting org charts
- Successfully implemented by leveraging workday employee data and used integration model to build Org charts
- Employee Engagement: Performed key data analysis on survey results, built presentations for leadership meetings and work with business partners to ideate actions to improve employee engagement index scores
- Global Organizational Change Management: Devised & maintained project tracker, coordinated, and worked closely with HR business partners in implementing project post- mortem; partnered with HR Technology and Project Management Office to deliver results and recommended action items
- Offboarding: Enhanced overall employee offboarding experience and built strategy to collected key data from pooled resources for devising talent retention strategies across Activision.
HR Professional
GMR Group
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Recruitment: Managed full cycle recruiting from requisition in-take to successful candidate on-boarding and ensured position closures within 45 days of Recruitment lead time
- Rewards and Recognition: Improvised and launched new employee recognition platform which saw growth in number of employees recognized to 38% in first quarter itself
- Reporting Analytics: Analyzed series of HR metric reports on trend analysis, attrition rate, employee engagement score, and annual staffing plan focused on achieving strategic goals of organization
- Change Management and Job Level Mapping: Assisted front line employees during organization transition to HAY group structure, ensured data integrity and developed Job descriptions as part of grade evaluation during organization's change management
- Talent Development: Initiated Employee Engagement Initiatives like skip Level Meeting, Knowledge sharing sessions, HR Interactions and Employee Engagement action planning & survey which saw overall increase in organizational climate based on GPTW survey.
Education
Master's in Business Administration – HR & Marketing -
Bahra University
India2014
Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Science & Engineering -
JNTU
India2012
Skills
- Talent Planning
- HR Operations
- Process Documentation
- Onboarding and Offboarding
- Change Management & Restructuring
- Performance Management
- Policies & Procedure
- Employee Relations
- Employee Engagement
- Microsoft Office
- HR analytics
- Workday
- MS Visio
- Strategic HR Planning
- Project Management
About Me
A writer who loves to put down her travel experiences in spare time here theedgeworld.wordpress.com/ (Blog), fiction and non, mostly non-fiction, Love spending time in mountains and forest, Can live on Pizzas and Breads, Actively support tiger rescue centers and other animal shelters.
Timeline
Sr. HR Generalist
Buzzfeed
12.2020 - 03.2021
HR Coordinator
Activision | Blizzard
09.2018 - 12.2020
HR Professional
GMR Group
01.2014 - 01.2017
Master's in Business Administration – HR & Marketing -
Bahra University
Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Science & Engineering -
JNTU
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