HR Design & Automation at Avalara
7 Years of Experience
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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I am a people enthusiast with 7.5 years of experience across HR and people technology at Avalara - a global SaaS FinTech leader with 4,000+ employees. There are too many activities and projects to name, having supported HR in a high-growth company. Overall, I have reviewed people frameworks and advised site heads on people decisions while building HR Operations of India. Shifting to the people technology team, I am enhancing global people practices by engineering reliable designs and automating processes. Whether through inheritance or building from scratch, I am trusted with design, configurations and communications. I ask about intent and metrics. I will figure out the how if I’m clear on the why. I am known to work hard towards a strong vision. Major drivers for me are intelligent connected designs and a learning environment. My main goal isn’t regular HR. It is to accelerate business growth by building every element that leads to high-performance teams at scale.
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Job Title : Senior Business Systems Analyst
Company name : Avalara
Period : July 2023 - Present
Summary : I’m the global primary for
- Human Capital Management and Business Processes in Workday.
- Intranet on Simpplr and Salesforce.
- Collaboration with ServiceNow.
- Automation testing partnership with Kainos.
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Title : Business Systems Analyst III
Company name : Avalara
Period : September 2021 - July 2023
Summary : Context:
- Chose a job pivot from a Lead India HR role to a global role in the People Technology team.
- Chose this to gain experience in speed and scale of design and execution.
- Learning people systems connected to employees and the workforce.
- Working remotely in a scrum environment with US team members.
Responsibilities:
- Playing the role of process advisor, tech business analyst and systems engineer.
- Handling global HCM and business processes on Workday.
- Working with senior leaders to build scale and reliability of people processes & business vision.
- Handling enhancements of new systems like Simpplr (intranet).
- Introducing automation testing of global HRIS frameworks through collaboration with Kainos.
Achievements:
- Refined multiple business processes and introduced enhancements to employee experience.
- Designed and deployed new HCM processes such as Remote I-9 for the US.
- Set up global self-service remote working requests.
Built the following successful proofs-of-concept independently and received very positive feedback on the demos from senior leaders:
- Built complete matrix organizations and processes for compliance, reliance and scale.
- Set up multiple capabilities for self-managing talent information globally.
- Researched and set up skills and competency libraries to support different business units.
- Set up a machine-learning-driven global career hub for continuous capability exploration, surfacing networking opportunities and career growth.
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Title : Lead India HR
Company name : Avalara
Period : April 2020 - August 2021
Summary : Responsibilities:
- Full-spectrum evolving and expanding role.
- Owner of multiple activities at various stages of Workday HRIS, Payroll, Reporting.
- Manager of 1-member team handling HROps for 1,200+ full-time employees in India.
- Absorbing constant headcount growth of high double digits percentage.
- Working with India and international HRBPs in analysis and management.
- Reviewing people framework for India offices and international locations and advising managers and HRBPs.
Location : Pune, Maharashtra
Job Title : Generalist / HRBP / HROps
Company name : Avalara
Period : January 2017 - March 2020
Summary : I played a multi-functional independent role by simultaneously handling operations, analyst and business partner responsibilities.
In HRBP role, I worked with management layer to help them properly assess their team's performance while handling projects like job profile and career level mapping, org-wide training platform identification, rewards and recognition, etc.
I played a core part in the design and rollout of new initiatives, employer branding activities and employee engagement projects by working with several teams.
I received recognition in the form of several company awards for my business-oriented work and self-motivated professionalism.
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Title : Advance Your Skills as a Manager
Period : July 2022 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/28787f700ea515342ec52acd0a200ee2db15cf1421dcd6d8862491497915686c?trk=backfilled_certificate
Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Become a Senior Manager
Period : July 2022 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/cddaeda368377a48b6ad4e7c8443306d6876393ce371878aaa8e27f64b7f54ea?trk=backfilled_certificate
Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Managing and Leading Developers
Period : July 2022 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/c39d5e1e1341a37fcd22f7d1207a3f959ef5ce5da6f1a3c1330163cb6db866ec?trk=backfilled_certificate
Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Become a Product Manager
Period : April 2021 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/4839812496765a32a72ca8ba7014666cb920f29451ba8fce584e13410d50bc8f?trk=backfilled_certificate
Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)
Period : April 2021 - April 2025
Summary : 1368666, bcert.me, https://bcert.me/somurtdui
Issuing Authority : Scrum Alliance
Title : Become a Manager
Period : February 2020 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/1ba5b35d4da9614d384d805b5747e4b3b482825b230d721f9a8220f37ac6f380?trk=backfilled_certificate
Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Become an HR Business Partner
Period : February 2020 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/1a3d839a7f0c5d0da9fc7116f7649ce08ee3be4e88ba7833687007acbc9f15bf?trk=backfilled_certificate
Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
English (Native Or Bilingual), Hindi (Native Or Bilingual), Marathi (Professional Working)
Award : Spot Bonus
Issuer : Avalara
Date : 12 2021
Summary : Received Spot Bonus for delivering automation of HR functions of India.
Award : 2020 Annual Award - Spirit Award
Issuer : Avalara
Date : 2 2021
Summary : Received the Global Annual award of 2020 that was nominated and voted by the workforce of Avalara for incorporating and spreading the Avalara spirit!
Award : Spot Award
Issuer : Management Panel of Avalara India
Date : 4 2020
Summary : Nominated for Q1-2020 quarterly award 'for demonstrating remarkable sense of ownership in mapping job profile and compensation data, collating, cleaning and tracking all changes for 750+ employees in 4 locations; for collaborating with global team members ensuring successful GoLive of Workday under Covid-19 lockdown'.
Award : 2019 Annual Award - Customer Excellence Team Award
Issuer : Management Panel of Avalara India
Date : 2 2020
Summary : Nominated the HR team and received the annual award in Avalara's Annual Company Meeting for helping the company achieve 150% increase in employee size over 2019 and keeping all teams aligned throughout this growth to sustain the momentum.
Voted for by the management panel of Avalara comprising of all senior managers and directors.Citation - "This team has delivered on all fronts and helped a lot of teams in a tough 2019. Their continuous efforts to help all teams resulted in us not just releasing an offer every 15 hours but also ensuring a good employee experience. Please welcome the team that helped achieve our massive employee growth, onboard two big acquisitions, and ensure the Avalara way was maintained throughout 2019!"
Award : 2018 Annual Award - Star Performer Of The Year
Issuer : Management Panel of Avalara India
Date : 10 2018
Summary : Received the top individual award of the organisation - 'Star Performer Of The Year' for "exemplary leadership and ownership in projects, brilliantly displaying success traits and producing exceptional results".Voted for by the management panel of Avalara comprising of all senior managers and directors.
Award : Spot Award
Issuer : Engineering Managers of Avalara India
Date : 7 2018
Summary : Received Spot Award from two engineering managers for bringing fresh ideas to the table and owning media management for the organization's meetup initiative resulting in increased participation, larger community, more engagement and higher brand value.
Award : Quarterly Award - Most Valuable Super Hero
Issuer : HR Head of Avalara India
Date : 3 2018
Summary : Received Quarterly Award - Most Valuable Super Hero - for successfully managing Great Place to Work certification process, streamlining important reports for EMEA offices, bringing accuracy to headcount budgeting, contributing in Centre of Excellence project ideas and having consistent high quality of work.
Award : Quarterly Award
Issuer : Engineering Manager of Avalara India
Date : 10 2016
Summary : Received Quarterly Award for bringing new ideas in recruiting, innovative ways of communicating with partners, hiring teams and candidates for niche positions and helping close tough positions in shorter turnaround times, resulting in increased Quality of Hire.
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