HR Business Partner

Virtusa; Chennai District; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa is seeking an HR Business Partner to partner with two verticals and three horizontals, delivering HR programs, engagement initiatives, and analytics across India. The role involves travel to client sites or Virtusa offices for engagement meetings and cross-functional collaboration with global teams.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years of progressive HR experience, strong MS Office skills, and a solid grasp of HR fundamentals, with exposure to finance-heavy environments and large teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR/Business/Finance or related field required.
• MBA or Master’s in HR/Finance preferred; engineering/maths UG preferred.
• 2+ years progressive HR experience with partner exposure.
• Experience with finance-heavy environments is a strong advantage.
• Working with global teams and across levels is expected.

Responsibilities

• Work on implementing Human Resources programs and practices for respective business units.
• Contribute towards designing initiatives to enhance Employee Experience.
• Support driving Compensation and Benefits programs for the units.
• Perform workforce analytics and predict trends.
• Suggest and implement interventions to improve engagement.
• Drive performance management and HR metrics tracking.
• Collaborate with business leaders for HR program implementation.
• Coordinate with HR leads on workforce analytics and interventions.
• Drive culture-specific HR interventions and policy implementation.
• Handle employee relations issues, including diversity and POSH.

Skills

HR fundamentals

MS Office proficiency

Global teams experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Finance or related field

MBA or Master’s in HR/Finance preferred

UG in Engineering or Maths preferred

Job description

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business, Finance, or a related field; MBA or Master's in HR/Finance preferred. UG in Engineering or Maths will be preferred.

Experience: 2+ years of progressive HR experience with at least 2 years in a business partner role; experience working closely with Finance or in a finance-heavy environment is a strong advantage.

Must

Sound understanding of Human resources fundamentals, Proficiency on MS Office tools

Experience in working with global teams (more than 700+ team members) and across levels

• Handle workforce spread across different verticals and horizontals


• Play HR Partner role for 2 vertical businesses & 3 horizontal functions and hence prior exposure in handling such assignments is desirable.


• Ability to play Individual Contributor / Team Manager role as necessary and hence prior exposure to playing both roles is desirable.


• Ready to travel independently to client site / Virtusa offices in HYD / other cities across India for client connect / employee engagement meetings and hence prior exposure to such travel is desirable.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business, Finance, or a related field; MBA or Master's in HR/Finance preferred. UG in Engineering or Maths will be preferred.

Experience: 2+ years of progressive HR experience with at least 2 years in a business partner role; experience working closely with Finance or in a finance-heavy environment is a strong advantage.

Must

Sound understanding of Human resources fundamentals, Proficiency on MS Office tools

Experience in working with global teams (more than 700+ team members) and across levels

Working / worked with reputed IT industries with scale

Desirable

• Handle workforce spread across different verticals and horizontals


• Play HR Partner role for 2 vertical businesses & 3 horizontal functions and hence prior exposure in handling such assignments is desirable.


• Ability to play Individual Contributor / Team Manager role as necessary and hence prior exposure to playing both roles is desirable.


• Ready to travel independently to client site / Virtusa offices in HYD / other cities across India for client connect / employee engagement meetings and hence prior exposure to such travel is desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Work on implementing Human Resources programs and practices for respective business unit(s)


• Contribute towards designing initiatives aimed at enhancing Employee Experience


• Support on driving Compensation and Benefits programs for the business unit


• Workforce Analytics


• Predicting trends


• Suggest and implement interventions


• Driving Engagement activities


• Driving Performance Management


• HR metrics tracking and reporting


• Working with respective business leaders for implementation of business unit specific HR programs


• Work with the respective HR leads on Workforce analytics and designing interventions accordingly.


• Driving culture specific interventions


• Policy and Process implementation


• Issue/ Query resolution


• Employee Relations


• Exposure to handling various types of people issues, viz performance, absenteeism, behavioural, sensitivity, workplace harassment, diversity, POSH


• Collaborate with other functions (TAG, TD, Mobility etc) for closing out on employee work-life transactions

Work Experience

25years