K Prakash

Senior HR Business Partner with 6.9 years of success driving strategic HR initiatives across diverse industries. Expertise lies in managing large employee cohorts and enhancing the employee life-cycle through targeted talent strategies and engagement programs. Proven ability to partner effectively with business units, ensuring compliance and fostering a culture of development and inclusion. Skilled in leveraging data analytics to inform decision-making and improve talent retention.

Senior HR Business Partner at PragmaEdge Software Services Pvt Ltd (2025-11 – 2026-03)

• Responsible for managing a HC of 300 employees PAN India and support employee life cycle.
• Manage compliance escalations, POSH or any other disciplinary action across all regions.
• Ensure employees complete their mandatory training and attend the sessions, workshops, activities etc.
• Provide data driven insights for decision making (attrition, absenteeism etc)
• Arrange monthly communication forums like Townhalls, Leadership connects, Team outings, engagement events etc within cost budget.
• Lead performance management cycle and ensure 100% closure on a timely manner.
• Ensure employee grievance is closed within TAT.
• Ensure adherence to legal compliance audit and adherence to policy.

Assistant Manager - HRBP at Wipro Technologies (2022-03 – 2025-05)

• Responsible for managing a HC of 850 PAN India and support employee lifecycle.
• Partnered with business unit to design and execute targeted HR interventions and talent strategies in line with business needs.
• Lead employee engagement programs, skip-level meetings, talent connects, onboarding, career management, top-talent identification and retention initiatives.
• Facilitate employee development program (via LMS), leadership development and internal mobility.
• Manage compliance escalation, POSH, ombuds, or any other dispute. Ensure fair investigation and resolution within TAT.
• Ensuring legal compliance and adherence to company policies, statutory policies. Maintain documentation.
• Support the performance management process by providing guidance on goal-setting, feedback and development plans, to enhance employee productivity and engagement.
• Partner with COE teams to ensure that people processes (L&D, payroll, promotions, Total Rewards, TA) are continuously reviewed and deliver comprehensive HR solution.
• Focuses on DEI initiatives, cost optimization, CSR initiatives and business profitability.
• Ensure timely onboarding and offboarding within TAT. Ensure compliance with regional regulations.
• Provide regular guidance and support to Business Unit with data backed recommendations to improve talent retention.
• Maintain employee records in SAP with 100% accuracy.
• Analyse data and observations across the organization, highlight trends and recommendations driving solutions to business leaders as appropriate. Publish timely reports to all stakeholders.
• Travel to different branches as per business requirement.

Talent Executive at Skillmine Technologies (2021-07 – 2022-01)

• Responsible for managing a HC of 500 employees PAN India and support employee lifecycle.
• Partner with business leaders to develop and implement HR strategies that support business goals.
• Drive various core HR functions like induction, movement, promotion, career cycle etc.
• Liaise with several stakeholders to ensure skill gaps are identified and prepare diverse talent pipeline by external hiring and upskilling existing talent via LMS (sales team, customer support, production).
• Identify and retain 60% top talent by one-on-one interview and EWS connects.
• Liaise with IT, Finance, Total Rewards, business for capability development.
• Create and publish several dashboards and data backed analytics to assist leadership in making decisions – attrition, absenteeism, diversity ratio etc.
• Conduct pulse survey, exit connect, top-talent connect to get insight into latest trends.
• Drive corporate initiatives, Townhall, business achievements, celebrations.
• Manage contract labours grievance, POSH, complaints ensure fair investigation and closure within TAT.
• Offer day-to-day support related to Bamboo HR.
• Follow Regional and Regulatory laws and ensure compliance.
• Travel to different branches as per business requirement.

Associate HR at iPLACE (2019-05 – 2021-07)

• Drive engagement initiatives like new hire inductions, mentoring program, upskilling, regional celebrations, project anniversary, CSR, DEI, townhalls etc.
• Implement employee survey, questionnaire, FGD, top talent connects (sales team, Support teams).
• Maintain employee database in SAP (HRIS) & LMS with 100% accuracy.
• Track employee movement, exit, onboarding and upskilling of talent within the business.
• Provide data related to support for Attrition analysis, includes- analyzing Exit interview, observe trends and highlight important aspects, prepare, and publish dashboards.
• Support team in core HR activities Onboarding, meet-and-greet, townhall, scheduling interviews etc as per business requirement.
• Act as first point of contact for all employee grievance and resolution of Jira tickets in service now.
• Manage Performance, oversee KRA, KPI. Support manager during performance appraisal closure.
• Implement several strategic HR and OD initiatives across the organization and ensure adoption among managers and employees.
• Seek and maintain record of necessary approvals and checklist for OD implementation.
• Ensure smooth migration of office to remove work environment during covid lockdowns.
• Implement and update HR system for attendance, leave, approvals, training, hiring etc.

HR Operations – Internship at Suryoday Small Finance Bank (2018-05 – 2018-07)

• Identifying the competency of Role holders in 3 Business verticals and getting approval of CEO to implement it into Oracle HCM.
• Conduct Branch visit across Mumbai and Pune.
• Conducting thorough interview of each role holder of 3 business verticals – Small Finance, Retail Assets, Retail Liability (I had taken interviews of over 40 employees)
• Identify their activities and relate them with competency.
• Getting approval of list of competencies on various levels – Office level, Regional level, State level, CEO Level before freeze and publish.

MBA in Human Resource Management /Industrial Relations – Balaji Institute of Modern Management, Pune (BIMM) (2017 – 2019)

BBA in Human Resource Management /Industrial Relations – Birla Institute of Technology Mesra (2013 – 2016)

Secondary Education – D.B.M.S. English School (2011 – 2013)