CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé

• Articulate, innovative senior executive with experience in strategic leadership positions and a consistent history of optimizing recruiting and hiring processes and operational processes.
• Listed in the "Who’s Who of Britain’s Business Elite – Young Business Leaders 2009"
• Ability to gain senior stakeholder buy-in
• Key roles in developing and executing multiple successful initiatives in recruiting, sales and recruiter leadership management
• Skilled at building extensive recruiting networks and international sourcing, earning trust and respect throughout the organization.
• Creation of collaborative partnerships. Strategic thinker and hands on leader, focusing on clear expectations, accountability and building high performance teams. Polished analytical, interpersonal and client contact skills.
• Has been extensively involved in organisation growth in all aspects
• Achievement and goal oriented with more than 10 years of experience in Recruitment, HR, Financial, Banking and Legal Environments.
• Management of consultants, researchers /resourcers , support staff.
• Strong 3rd Party negotiations
• Team player, consistently motivating team members toward success and self- development
• An “outside the box” thinker who relishes a challenge
• Has proven the ability of adapting to different work environments, and challenges.
• International exposure and have proven skills to headhunt/resource the most niche skills.
• Placed high calibre candidates in IT, Telecom , Banking, Finance, FMCG, Marketing ,Sales experts from mid range to C Level individuals


CAREER EXPERIENCE
IDPP Consulting Ltd – (Jan 2009 – )
SAM Team Leader
• Heading account management of key accounts in the company
• Troubleshooter to increase productivity in dormant /less active accounts
• International business development and full 360 recruitment role
• Managing Clients such as CGI, Tribold, Comverse, Patni (various industries)
• Carrying out the End to End resourcing / recruitment function to provide the clients with the best available resources in the market by using traditional and non traditional methods.
• Assisting other account managers in resourcing and headhunting


Niche Resources – (June 2004 – 2009)
Consultant (June 2005 – March 2005)
Senior Consultant - (March 2005 – June 2006)
Director Resourcing (June 2006 – 2009)

• Carrying out full 360 of Recruitment with International Blue Chip clients such as including IBM, KPMG, Accenture, CGI Europe, Visa, Zurich Financial, BT Retail, Cable & Wireless, Nomura Bank, Patni, MTC, Britannia Building Society, Allied Solutions, Vodafone etc.
• Recruiting across IT, Telecom, Finance, Professional Services, Customer Care Services, Digital Media industries internationally (UK, Poland, Netherlands, Germany, Nordic Region, Africa, Asia to name a few)
• Areas of specialities include Technical, and Business Arena’s in IT, Telecom, Finance (Banking and Insurance), FMCG, Pharmaand Consulting markets.
• Range of Experts Sourced from junior level to senior board level
• Branded “Niche” for positioning in the Interim Management space for candidate & client acquisition
• Managed Team of 8 (resourcers / sales / rec consultants / admin)
• Formatted recruitment strategies with clients in relation to new opportunities
• Used well-developed negotiation skills to secure terms and conditions with clients including that of PSL & exclusive provider agreements.
• Used professional headhunting for sourcing cross agency roles
• Continuously networked around the industry to secure relationships with candidates.
• Maintaining constant pipeline and achieving an average of £200-250k Profit revenue per annum (personal billing)
• Key involvement in increasing the overall company turnover and enhancement in Business / Market Share / Headcount.
• Screening of candidates at all levels.
• Account Managed clients to sustain healthy relationships to secure repeat business.
• Continuous Business Development to maintain a proven track record of sourcing new business, closing sales and account management
• Designed all advertising and negotiated best advertising rates.
• Training and development and mentoring of new Niche employees
• Setting up of Internal Processes and Management of staff
• Carrying out internal training sessions for staff and mentoring them.
• Involved in all aspects of recruitment consultancy operations.
• Providing guidance and strategies for different Client company’s Senior management. With regard to market knowledge and workforce attraction.
• Carrying out Time management sessions with all staff and different levels.
• Designed and implemented a full internal talent identification and development
• Programme to resource key roles.
• Involved in the redesign of the company website and a revamp of the referral scheme.
• Utilisation of “outside the box” thinking to obtain high calibre hard to find resources.
• Meeting all preset KPI’s and SLA’s
• Strong Brand ambassador for client Brands

Kenwright and Lynch Solicitors – Consultant (Legal Billing) - (2 week contract)

Provided consultancy service to guide and assist the company fee earners with regard to Immigration Legal Billing of the company for the purpose of the Legal Services Commission audit. Ironed out many issues in the billing aspect and quantified the files to be more accountable. Set up a File audit that has been highly successful to the company.

Ranga and Company, Solicitors (UK) – ( 2002 – 2004 part time)
Office manager / paralegal / asst. accountant
Legal clerking (Immigration / Crime / Family)

• Legal clerking (Immigration / Crime / Family)
- Involved in attending court hearings, and asylum interviews.
- Preparation of court attendance sheets.
- Attending conferences with clients, and obtaining instructions.
- Involved in the preparation of presentations / charts for case analysis.
- Preparation of running costs of immigration, criminal, family matters: Legal Aid Billing.
- Initial Client case handling
• Accounting
- Involved in the maintenance of the company’s books both Legal accounts and Non Legal Accounts.
- Experience in the usage of the Sage accounting system.
- Involved in the following up of any payment related queries.
- Involved in the maintenance of the company’s Sage system an in house client account system.
- Preparation of individual legal bills for Legal Aid purposes.
- Preparation of VAT returns
- Assisting in the staff payroll preparation system.
• Administration
- Maintaining client records
- Allocation of client to staff members
- Initial screening of clients
- General office administration duties

American Express Bank - (August 1999 – August 2001)
Accounts / Financial administrator

Due to the exceptional work and tendency to be a quick learner and strategist during the term as a temporary resource and was offered a permanent position in the Financial Administration Department. Was a key member of the department and was often sought by other departments for strategy and marketing ploys.

• Responsible for the preparation and timely hand over of Reports to The Central Bank.
• Preparation of Reports for American Express – “Global Financial Services”.
• Preparation of MIS Reports for Local management
• Assisting the Finance team in the preparation of monthly results and efficiently communicating the statistical data in order to produce financial statements.
• Was involved in Payment related work, including checking invoices, preparing vouchers and obtaining proper authorisation.
• Initiating improvements in producing reports in an efficient and more orderly manner.
• Was involved in the acceptance testing of the Hyperion system and the transfer pricing report system.
• Responsible in recruiting finance support staff, Permanent/Contract/Temp.
• Handled queries and provided information from auditors, internal and external clients.
• Represented the Finance Team in Local and International Strategic planning meetings.

American Express Bank - (June 1999–August 1999) and (June 1997–October 1997)
Clerical Assistant ( temporary)

Headhunted as an outstanding student to have an opportunity to work in a Blue Chip environment.
• Assisting in all Finance reports (Central Bank, New York, MIS) by obtaining relevant financial and non-financial data from the appropriate sources (Trial Balances, Transaction Lists, Money market reports, Current Accounts, etc.)
• Data gathering and inputting, into in-house computer systems, to assist in Financial Reporting Procedures.

EDUCATION / TRAINING
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) – Part Qualified (Part 1 + Part2)
Currently undergoing the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) - Certificate in Recruitment and Selection

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
BA (Hons) – Accounting and Finance - London South Bank University (2004)
Diploma in Computer Hardware and Networking - Turnkey Training College (Sri Lanka, 2003)

TRAINING /WORKSHOPS
• Workshop on B2B E-Commerce.(International Information Technology Conference 2000)
• Workshop on B2C E-Commerce.(International Information Technology Conference 2000)
• Workshop on Introduction to E-Comm (International Information Technology Conference 2000)
• Followed Computer Courses Windows and Microsoft Office.
• Compliance Training and Insider Dealing Workshop. (American Express Bank, 1999)
• Workshop on Brand Training. (American Express Bank, 2000)
• Workshop on Finance Discovery Map (American Express Bank, 2001)
• In house Hyperion Network training (American Express Bank, 2001)
• Time Management for Managers – Carried out by the University of Westminster (2007)
• Sage accountancy programme – in house training (Ranga & Co )
• Voyager Software - in house training (Niche Resources)
• Adapt Software –in house training (IDPP)
• I-Grasp HR Software – Training IBM

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Awards
- Full University Colours Badminton (South Bank University)
- University Crest for contribution to sport (South Bank University)
- University team of the year (South Bank University) 2003/2004
- Badminton British universities Cup Championship 2003/2004
- Champion Athlete Advance level (Stafford International) (1996)
- Champion Athlete Under 17 (Stafford International) (1994)
Badminton
- Captained American Express Bank in inter-bank Tournament (1999)
- Captain of London South Bank University Badminton Team (2003/2004)