Spandana Sphoorty - Assistant Vice President - Employee Relations & Disciplinary Management

Company Profile-

Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd.

WE : Signifies Collaboration.

Indicates Togetherness.

Means you and us as a group.

For us, We also stands for Women Empowerment and Women Entrepreneurship!

Since the start of our journey in 1998, for us, it has always been about ways to empower women, ways to give wings to her entrepreneurial aspirations, ways to give her financial independence, ways to give her financial security. And importantly. ways to uplift communities.

Our micro-loans, designed specifically for women borrowers, have helped uplift the lives of millions of households that used these loans to acquire assets and to enhance their incomes. The convenience of door-step delivery of financial services to our customers have saved innumerable man-days spent visiting a bank which, most of our customers were not at ease with. Our customers also get freedom from the exorbitant interest rates charged by a local money lender. We rely on the social underwriting of loans aka., the JLG model of microfinance, thereby giving our borrowers an opportunity to start from scratch.

Our loan products are designed keeping in mind the evolving needs of our customers while also ensuring that they are sustainable for borrowers. Most of our colleagues are from the same socio-cultural background as our borrowers which provides a degree of comfort to our borrowers. All this, just to ensure that our customers and the communities that we operate in, prosper. Our ambition is to be the wind beneath the aspirational flight of our customers.

Purpose of the position:

To lead the disciplinary management & employee relations function for quick and effective resolution of disciplinary issues and managing employee relations.

Required Knowledge, Skill, and Experience.

1. Experience in resolving disciplinary issues

2. Statutory knowledge with respect to management of employee relations

3. Knowledge of labour laws prevailing in the country

4. Minimum 12 years' experience in HR or legal with 6+ years' experience in managing disciplinary management.

Key Result areas

1. Handling Disciplinary Investigation/Preliminary inquiry to find prima facia in the case then draft Investigation report with recommendation for Disciplinary Committee.

2. Drafting Show Cause notice/Warning Letter/Termination order.

3. Handling Whistle Blower complaints - supporting and advising concern SHR / ZHR into inquiry.

4. Handling Absconding cases and checking if all due diligence was carried out before Termination.

5. Handling BGV cases.

6. Advisory role to HR in Labour law related matters and implementation of new projects.

7. Coordinating with Internal Audit team by assisting them in Investigation in cases related to financial and Integrity issues.

8. Drafting various Grid related to financial fraud / cash misappropriation / Integrity/ Conduct/ Insubordination/ work negligence/ various actions keeping in mind Major and Minor misconduct.

9. Co-ordinating with Internal stakeholders in complex cases and advising respective SHR/ZHR about the requirements of detail Investigation.

10. Co-ordinating with external legal counsel and seek secondary advice in complex cases and implementation of strategy to mitigate litigation.

11. Advising in ER cases including disciplinary matters, labour grievances and complicated employment matters, proceedings before statutory authority etc., Further conducting independent investigations in complex cases, reviewing and producing investigation reports with recommendation.