Nithya Panicker
Oviedo,FL
Summary
Results-driven HR Specialist with 6 years of experience in talent sourcing, employee engagement, and performance evaluation. Collaborates with leadership to align HR initiatives with business goals, fostering workforce motivation and a positive organizational culture. Committed to leveraging HR expertise to excel as an HR Business Partner and facilitate organizational development.
Overview
2
2
Languages
1
1
Certification
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Human Resources Manager
Sira Consulting Inc
09.2022 - 05.2026
- Serve as the key HR partner for specific business units, advising leadership on workforce strategies, employee satisfaction, and performance optimization.
- Responsible for advising and crafting the human resource policies and programs to ensure alignment with business goals.
- Manage the onboarding and offboarding activities. Coordinate employment paperwork, preboarding requirements, and background-check clearance. personnel files including preparing offer letters, maintaining offer letter documentation and background checks. Facilitate smooth onboarding processes including completion of I-9 and verifying documentation to ensure policy compliance. Skilled in conducting orientation sessions and building positive relationships with new hires to support a productive organizational culture across the US Region.
- To manage employee offboarding processes, including termination notices, separation communications, exit documentation, and communication of trends and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Respond to and appropriately address employee relations concerns while maintaining confidentiality and professionalism. Serve as the primary point of contact for employee questions, concerns, and workplace issues.
- Responsible for accurate and timely completion of client audits.
- Assist management on performance management, employee engagement, organizational transformations, restructuring, and workforce optimization initiatives.
- Proactively analyze HR data (e.g., turnover rates, engagement levels, absenteeism trends) to provide actionable insights that support strategic decision-making by management.
- Utilize HRIS platforms to maintain employee data, generate report to maintain accurate records related to employee relations matters, investigations, corrective actions, separations, and analyze results to continuously improve learning effectiveness.
- Perform comprehensive administrative duties such as maintaining employee databases, payroll files, updating HR forms with accuracy, compliance and confidentiality.
- Support the development of training programs and annual learning plans for the US and Asia regions by identifying training needs and designing solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
- Serve as the main point of contact for benefits administration, encompassing medical, dental, vision, retirement, and 401(k) plans, while assisting employees with inquiries and enrollment processes and answer employee queries to ensure smooth understanding.
- Responsible in coordination with accounting to administer bi-weekly and monthly multistate payroll for US Employees by ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness.
- To manage the HR inbox and respond to inquiries in a timely and professional manner.
- Monitor work visa expiration dates and maintain related documentation to ensure ongoing employment eligibility.
- To coordinate, manage all activities related to client audits and complete the audits in a timely manner ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and organizational policies.
- Conducting background verification, responding for background verification emails and forms. To respond to OSHA Reporting.
- Partner with global headquarters to develop and enhance HR policies, procedures, and programs as needed. Contribute to global HR initiatives, including culture, engagement, and talent programs.
- Ensuring all immigration documentation is current to avoid legal or employment issues by tracking expiration dates and proactively initiating renewal processes. Monitored application statuses and followed up with immigration authorities.
- Collecting and reviewing required documentation such as passports, visas, and employment letters.
- Perform general administrative tasks- answer phone calls, mail distribution, order office supplies, scanning, copying etc
- Support employee relations initiatives by assisting with employee surveys, gathering feedback, and assisting in employee engagement programs.
- Provide support to managers in coaching and counseling employees, performance evaluations, PIP.
- Responding to HR-related queries within the company and ensure smooth and timely completion of them.
- Managed client portfolio to ensure seamless delivery of consulting services, maintaining compliance and delivering an exceptional client experience.
- Perform other duties as and when required related to HR and Office administration.
HR Generalist
Tea A Holic
01.2017 - 04.2019
- Human Resources Generalist
- Managed all aspects of talent acquisitions in the Cafe. Proactively identify and source diverse candidates, building a strong candidate pipeline through internal and external relationships and a variety of sources.
- Conduct pre-employment background and reference checks, assist the management in creating offer letters, including negotiation around compensation, job terms and conditions.
- Coordinated onboarding, new hire orientation, and exit interviews to enhance employee experience and retention.
- Assisting in the payroll process, leave management, absence management and timesheet. Calculating payroll considering extra time, occasional holidays, evening or night shifts.
- Assisted in developing company personnel policies and employee handbook, revising as necessary.
- Generated important letters and memos to be sent out to employees in timely manner.
- Assisting in evaluating and selecting annual health and other benefit options that fulfill the business needs.
- Assisting in employee conflict resolution and improving business outcomes and employee performance.
- Identified employee training needs and developed appropriate training programs.
- Facilitated employee relations initiatives, fostering a positive work culture that encouraged teamwork and improved employee retention.
- Fostered workforce inclusion initiatives
- Track key recruitment metrics-Source of hire, turnover rates etc.
- Ensure that the Cafe staff complies with health and safety regulations of the hospitality industry.
HR & Admin Consultant
Neova Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2016 - 11.2016
- Brief: As a part of the Human Resource team, my major duties and responsibilities include:
- Managed onboarding, induction, and exit processes for new and departing employees.
- Enters new hires, terminations, status changes in HRIS.
- Sets up all new hire paperwork, desk setup, equipment requests with IT prior to the start date of new employee.
- Conduct background checks and employee eligibility verification.
- Assist in recruitment drive. Facilitate full recruitment process across all business lines.
- Sourced resumes to select best-qualified candidates and interviewed candidates to better assess qualifications and ascertain personality, personal character, and work ethic.
- Maintaining the monthly Leave report details of employees for payroll data.
- Maintained accurate and up - to - date human resource files, records and documentation (employee personal files i.e. collection, tracking, closing of any pending documents).
- Conducted skill matrix analysis and facilitated training and development programs based on identified requirements.
- Created and implemented HR policies, updated employee handbook, and explained HR policies and procedures to employees.
- Creating monthly HR MIS report (information regarding monthly recruitments and attrition, employee salary data, performance data, job evaluation, attendance reports, ability to reach the goals, analyzing the wage reports of all the employees etc).
- Planning and executing different employee engagement activities.
- Assisting the Team in 360-degree performance appraisals/feedbacks/mid-year review.
- Taking care of monthly reimbursement bills-Medical/telephone/internet/LTA, collection & consolidation for payroll inputs.
- Employee relations-Handling employee grievance & addressing them accordingly.
- Issuing of warning letters, rejection letters, address proof letters, confirmation letter, and certificate for service excellence, relieving and experience certificates.
- Coordinating for creation of list for Awards/recognition on Quarterly/yearly basis.
- Reviewing policies and practices to maintain compliance.
- Worked as an employee helpdesk-addressing issues regarding infrastructure/facility management.
- Arranging travel & accommodation facilities for guest/outstation employee/candidate.
- Capturing and recording important data in Excel spreadsheet, including building charts and graphs as required.
- HR Administrator:
- Management of front office area- Ensure clean, orderly and professional appearance of visitor reception area. Greeted visitors and directed them to appropriate personnel.
- Vendor management & procurement.
- Processed monthly invoices, payments, and courier services efficiently.
- Coordinated renewals and timely services for all annual maintenance contracts including AC, fire, pest control, and UPS.
- Oversaw daily facility operations to ensure a safe and functional work environment.
- Coordinated visitor check-in and provided assistance to ensure a welcoming environment.
- Conducting the facility management survey.
- MIS reports-Preparation/consolidation/Analysis of monthly MIS reports for better cost cutting.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma - Human Resource Management
Symbiosis Institute Of Management studies
Pune, Maharashtra06-2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication
Government Engineering College
Jalgaon, Maharashtra06-2007
Skills
- Data-driven HR insights
- Influential relationship building
- Multitasking and prioritization
- Stakeholder management
- Adaptability in ambiguity
- Communication and problem-solving
Certification
Associate Professional in Human Resources-aPHR, April 2022 to May 2025, License No-800192117aPHR
Languages
English - Expert
German - Fluent
Additional Information
License No-800192117aPHR
Timeline
Human Resources Manager
Sira Consulting Inc
09.2022 - 05.2026
HR Generalist
Tea A Holic
01.2017 - 04.2019
HR & Admin Consultant
Neova Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2016 - 11.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication
Government Engineering College
Postgraduate Diploma - Human Resource Management
Symbiosis Institute Of Management studies