Monica Savona
Denham Court
Summary
Experienced Senior HR Business Partner with a successful track record in fostering cross functional collaboration to enhance employee engagement, driving organisational change, and leveraging data analytics to implement HR strategies that support business decisions and outcomes. Proven ability in developing and executing initiatives aligned with company goals, resulting in increased productivity and overall performance. Skilled at building strong relationships with all stakeholders and providing strategic guidance to senior leaders. Proven ability to adapt to evolving businesses and effectively navigating complex organisational structures.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
HR Business Partner, Senior
CREDIT CORP GROUP
02.2024 - Current
- Mentor, coach and engage HR Advisors continuously, ensuring we meet the deliverables and business outcomes in line with our people strategy
- Develop and drive the delivery of various initiatives through the analysis of data insights
- Coached managers on effective employee relations strategies to address workplace conflicts proactively.
- Managed complex employee relations issues to promote a healthy workplace culture.
- Proactively review and implement operating efficiencies within our HR framework
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop integrated solutions for business challenges.
- Engage with leaders and Senior Leaders around ongoing engagement initiatives to drive continuous change
- Advised senior management on organizational development and change management initiatives.
- Support business leaders in maintaining consistent and effective employee communication and collaboration
- Optimized workforce planning and resource allocation for improved operational efficiency.
- Interpret advice and apply Enterprise Agreements, Awards and legislation when required
- Enhanced employee engagement by implementing innovative HR programs and initiatives.
- Provide market insights on employee benefit offerings
- Established succession planning processes to ensure leadership continuity within the company.
- Proactively review existing recognition initiatives to ensure alignment with people strategies
- Support yearly remuneration review processes
- Engage with business leaders to develop readiness for change and workforce planning
- Identified HR training needs and conducted training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity, and within company to reach business goals.
HR Business Partner
CREDIT CORP GROUP
05.2019 - 02.2024
- Provide high quality advice and support to stakeholders on a variety of employee matters spanning across the employee life cycle ensuring compliance to legislative requirements
- Provide advice on all employee related disciplinary matters, terminations and redundancy processes
- Support the management of Work Health and Safety processes and systems
- Proactively engage with stakeholders around talent management opportunities and strategies for leadership continuity.
- Provide strategic advice on engagement initiatives across to increase engagement year on year
- Interpreting award, EBA and or legislations, where required
- Collaborate with leaders on performance concerns to manage them efficiently and effectively
- Identify and recommend effective strategies to address developmental areas identified across leadership groups.
- Provide training on topical issues to the business as appropriate
- Support the remuneration reviews and processes
- Conduct ongoing review and market analysis of employee benefits to ensure they are fit for purpose and supporting the delivery of benefits, where required
- Review policy requirements annually to ensure we remain compliant and up to date on legislative changes and best practices
Advisor, Talent Acquisition
CAMPBELL ARNOTT’S
06.2016 - 05.2019
- Liaise with Hiring Managers on end-to-end recruitment
- Guidance to managers on benchmarking data
- Point of contract for line managers on remuneration or HR issues
- Conducting interviews
- Specialising in Supply Chain roles nationally
- Discussing EBA terms and conditions of employment
- Negotiate terms, conditions and remuneration to successful candidates
- Reviewing Letter of Offers
- Effectively build pipeline of quality talent for Supply Chain by proactively sourcing talent through social media
- Project manager to transform and implement new Recruitment Processes for high volume Waged Recruitment across all manufacturing plants nationally
- Workforce planning to define plans and sourcing strategies for Supply Chain
- Ad- hoc projects as required
HR Advisor
MIRVAC GROUP
04.2014 - 05.2016
- Point of contact for Line Managers, employees and senior stakeholders around HR related queries across all HR activities
- Provide managers guidance on salary and benchmarking data
- Build strong relationships to support Managers and teams to build high performing teams
- Provide advice around performance management
- Undertake workplace investigations (conciliation and mediation)
- Coordinate letters and contracts for internal employees
- Ensured compliance with labor laws and regulations through regular policy updates and timely response to employee inquiries.
- Maintain HRIS system
- Advise employees and managers on entitlements and conditions of employment for Award and EBA employees
- Interpret Award and industrial instruments
- Keeping up to date with Australian legislative requirements and ensuring Mirvac is in line with those standards
- Policy reviews and updates
- Ad-hoc projects and research assignments where required
Talent Acquisition Specialist
ACCENTURE
01.2012 - 04.2014
- Deliver on recruitment processes for internal, external and graduate hires
- Specialising in Supply Chain for non- make and make positions
- Evaluated resumes, interviewed, and presented qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
- Conducting telephone interviews
- Provide a quality shortlist of approved candidates to line managers
- Discussing and negotiating EBA terms and conditions to employees and successful candidates
- Collaborated with hiring managers to determine job requirements and understand departmental needs.
- Managing candidates throughout the process including overseeing the letter of offer
- Conducting proactive recruitment using social media and building talent pipelines
- Providing advice to hiring managers on reward and other HR issues
- Liaise with recruitment agencies and third party suppliers as and when needed
- Providing training to colleagues on Avature CRM Pipelining tool
- Accenture is a global organisation providing consulting, technology and outsourcing services to assist clients and organisations become high-performance businesses
Human Resources Administrator
ACCENTURE
09.2010 - 01.2012
- General HR administration
- Delivery of workforce administration for Unilever
- Managed employee data and privacy to keep employee data confidential per organizational privacy policies.
- First point of contract for all queries for ANZ blue collar and white collar employees
- Providing support to the Talent Acquisition and HR teams
- Receipting and dispatching of employee contracts
- Receipting salary review letters
- Reviewing, preparing and receipting redundancy documents
- Receipting performance management and employee relations cases
- Liaising with Global mobility for internal and permanent transfers
- Creating purchase order requests
- Maintaining all employee files
- Conducting visa checks and clearances
- Liaison with the Service Delivery Manager for escalations
- Review of local practices and local work instructions
FMCG Careers Recruitment Coordinator
NEWTON CONSULTING GROUP
03.2010 - 09.2010
- Managed and organised job profiles for candidates and clients
- Database maintenance
- Reviewing resumes and screening candidates
- Ad design
- Conducted comprehensive phone interviews to pre-screen candidates, saving time for hiring managers in the interview process.
- Reference Checking
- Maintained open lines of communication throughout the entire recruitment process, fostering positive relationships with both candidates and clients.
- Responding to applicants and sending rejection letters
Senior Human Resources Coordinator
VERIFY CV
06.2009 - 03.2010
- General HR administration
- Lead, manage and mentor Client Consultants
- Client relationship management of all clients and accounts
- Organising and approving daily invoices
- Maintaining the online database and candidate files
- Assisting in the recruitment and selection process
- Preparing letter of offers to new starters
- Coordinating and preparing inductions and on-boarding
- Reference checking
- First point of contact for client and employee issues including performance management
- Providing support to Client Consultants and team members
- Manage the relationships with all key alliances and third party providers such as government departments, academic institutions and private organisations
- Ensuring Service Level Agreements and contracts are up to date and adhered to
Education
Certificate IV - Business Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Blacktown College of TAFE
Bankstown, NSW01.2008
Non- Award Certificate - Political Science/ Law
Macquarie University
Macquarie Park, NSW01.2007
Higher School Certificate -
St Mark's Coptic Orthodox College
Wattle Grove01.2005
Skills
- Ability to promote and cultivate positive working relationships
- Strong planning and organisational skills and self-management whilst working collectively within a team
- Ability to meet established deadlines
- Ability to manage highly complex and sensitive matters with a high levels of discretion
- Advanced written communication skills
- Advanced verbal communication skills and interpersonal communication skills
- Effective stakeholder management
- Adaptability and flexible with the proven ability to accommodate change
- Responsiveness to meet stakeholder needs
- Ability to meet business outcomes
Certification
- PeopleSoft
- Workday
- Payglobal HRSS
- Alesco HRIS system (Talent 2)
- WQM Remedy Solutions
- Microsoft Office Suite
- MS Visio
- Taleo (Performance and Recruitment module)
- Avature CRM Candidate pipelining database (Super User)
- Mental Health First Aid Officer
Timeline
HR Business Partner, Senior
CREDIT CORP GROUP
02.2024 - Current
HR Business Partner
CREDIT CORP GROUP
05.2019 - 02.2024
Advisor, Talent Acquisition
CAMPBELL ARNOTT’S
06.2016 - 05.2019
HR Advisor
MIRVAC GROUP
04.2014 - 05.2016
Talent Acquisition Specialist
ACCENTURE
01.2012 - 04.2014
Human Resources Administrator
ACCENTURE
09.2010 - 01.2012
FMCG Careers Recruitment Coordinator
NEWTON CONSULTING GROUP
03.2010 - 09.2010
Senior Human Resources Coordinator
VERIFY CV
06.2009 - 03.2010
Certificate IV - Business Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Blacktown College of TAFE
Non- Award Certificate - Political Science/ Law
Macquarie University
Higher School Certificate -
St Mark's Coptic Orthodox College
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