Societe Generale - HR Business Partner

Role : HRBP Level 6

Job Description :

- A 100% owned subsidiary of European banking and financial services major Societe Generale (SG), Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SG GSC) came into existence in 2000. Established as an offshore development centre in Bangalore, also having a presence in Chennai, SG GSC has 15 years of sustainable delivery expertise to its credit, and develops global best practices to promote the strategic objectives of the Societe Generale Group.

- SG GSC possesses in-depth understanding of the business processes and cutting-edge technologies across domains of Societe Generale's diverse portfolio. We deliver best-in-class solutions to the Group's entities in the realm of corporate and investment banking, retail banking, specialized financing and insurance, private banking, and global investment management and services.

- We place the highest importance on our employees and provide extensive opportunities for career progression and development. SG GSC conforms to the group diversity principles, and has a multi-cultural staff representing seven nationalities, and speaking 20 languages. Women comprise 25% of our workforce.

Qualification/Delivery :

- Monitor organizational behaviour and cultural alignment with appropriate occasions for SG-GSC to reward individuals.

- Deploy and monitor systems that hold people managers accountable for this critical responsibility.

- Build a collaborative, transparent, open and employee friendly environment through employee connect and communication initiatives. Ensure adherence to Employee activity calendars, monitor and facilitate Action Planning.

- Utilize talent to constantly collect feedback and suggestions regarding Policies and Practices within SGGSC, analyze internal and market trends on similar issues and concerns; facilitate discussions on policies and action planning. Ensure development of appropriate policies and practices. Ensure a strong channel to ensure communication dissemination.

- Enable Business Lines maintain discipline within their teams. As and when required, take appropriate disciplinary action in line with the organization's policies and practices.

- Ensure focus on 360- inputs to most employees.

- Ensure close Management of Performance Improvement Plans for poor performers, track progress; analyze trends and suggest solutions for identified systemic issues.

- Ensure that collated Personal Development Plans identified by individual and their Managers address individual needs as well as the changing needs of the business.

- Oversee the effective goal-setting and deployment process across Business Lines to ensure business goals are aligned and cascaded throughout the organization as per defined schedule.

Change Management

- Contribute to development of SG GSC strategic transformation programs

- Ideate / seek and/or collate feedback from employees of HR on GSC roadmap, convert them into actionable initiatives and market / sell them appropriately to GSC-Exco for necessary decision making and execution

People Management :

- Focus on methods to increase retention and engagement within HR. Analyze causes for attrition, find solutions and improvements to keep attrition low or in line with organizational targets. Drive a culture of floor walks, town-halls, "fun @ work" initiatives etc..

- Ensure detailed "root cause analysis" of Exit interviews to develop systemic corrections.

- Develop and implement retention plans, there by collaborating with the HR Specialist team.

- Implementation of EWS in your respective BLs.

Responsibilities in the Business :

Understand the Business and Organization :

- Gain knowledge of the business and industry segment of SG-GSC, its clients, suppliers, vendors and competitors; understand SG-GSC's business model, business strategy and business plans to ensure alignment of HR initiatives.

- Establish credibility and build a good rapport with Business Line Heads (clients), the team members as well as with local BL Heads and Managers - external brand building.

- Drive ownership related programs

- Diagnose appropriate solutions; implement them successfully.

Organizational Development :

- Understand the various nuances of the organizational culture of SG and deliver organizational interventions and strategies that promote SG culture, increase collaboration and alignment of SG-GSC with SG, increase opportunities for innovation and enable a work environment that helps SG-GSC get improved returns.

- Explore opportunities to promote a unified SG culture and drive a culture of growth, accountability / ownership and service orientation.

- Create links between culture and behaviour through appropriate policies and procedures. Monitor organizational behaviour and cultural alignment with appropriate occasions for SG-GSC to reward individuals.

- Deploy and monitor systems that hold people managers accountable for this critical responsibility.

Talent Management :

- Drive Commitment related programs

- Develop mechanisms that enable the HR-Business Partners

- Establish a good rapport with team members as well as with Operating Heads ALL

- Respond to queries and interpret Policies and Practices of SG-GSC promptly, ensuring little or no escalation of issues to the next level.

- Analyze trends, feedback and suggestions regarding Policies and Practices within SGGSC and compare with industry trends on similar issues and concerns; facilitate discussions on policies and action planning

- Recommend policies and practices to enable quick decision making and deployment

- Build a collaborative, transparent, open and employee friendly environment through Employee connect and communication initiatives. Create and ensure adherence to Employee activity calendars, derive key summary notes, monitor and facilitate Action Planning. Contribute significantly to Organization's Newsletter

- Enable Business Lines maintain discipline within their teams. As and when required, take appropriate disciplinary action in line with the organization's policies and practices.

- Work with Business Lines to Orient and induct New Hires into SG-GSC successfully.

- Implement the SG GSC level R& R program there by collaborating with the HR Specialist team.

Performance Management and Talent Development :

- Oversee the effective goal-setting and deployment process across Business Lines to ensure business goals are aligned and cascaded throughout the organization.

- Ensure new-hire orientation to Performance Management Process and Tool within one month of their joining.

- Ensure Mid-Year and Annual Appraisal and ACR calendar of events are drawn up and communicated for the year and managed closely viz. kick- off on schedule, tracking progress and timely completion as well as monitor quality of feedback.

- Ensure focus on Balanced Score-card and 360- inputs to most employees.

- Ensure close Management of Performance Improvement Plans for poor performers, track progress; analyze trends and suggest solutions for identified systemic issues.

- Ensure every employee across the organization undergoes a robust Career Discussion. Focus on driving initiatives that enable meeting of a significant number of career aspirations through identifying internal and SG group level opportunities

- Ensure that collated Personal Development Plans identified by individual and their Managers address individual needs as well as the changing needs of the business.

Education level : Bachelor's Degree

Work experience : 5-7 years

Contract type : Permanent

Company : Societe Generale

Description : Societe Generale Is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone. The Group employs 151,000 people worldwide in three key businesses - Retail Banking & Financial Services Societe Generale serves 30 million individual customers worldwide.

Global Investment Management & Services - Societe Generale is one of the largest banks in the euro-zone in terms of assets under custody and under management.

- Corporate & Investment Banking Societe Generale ranks among the leading banks worldwide in euro capital markets, derivatives and structured finance The position is part of Bangalore team developing real-time, multi-threaded, highly complex trading systems for Investment Banking division of Societe Generale.

- The position offers opportunity to specialize in a core investment banking domain with exposure to trading business process, complex financial products, risk and pricing management. It offers opportunity to apply and learn high end technical architecture with performance, scalability, adaptability and reactivity concerns. Its offers opportunity to master and enhance exciting Agile software development practices exhibiting accuracy, business agility, risk and value driven approach thereby installing self confidence, self learning, and collective ownership principles.

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