Pawani Rathnayake

- Enhances the organization’s human resources by planning, implementing, and evaluating employee relations and human resources policies, programs, and practices.

- Enforces management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures in consultation with the Director-General.

- Assess the organization’s manpower requirements, proceed with the recruitment process, fill job positions with the right staff and maintain the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions in consultation with the Director-General

- Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster a positive attitude toward Institutional goals.

- Keep records of personnel transactions, for example, hires, promotions, transfers, and terminations, and maintain an updated Human Resources Information System.

- Initiate and process employee annual appraisal systems to improve the productivity of the organization.

- Managing disciplinary matters to ensure compliance with all labour regulations and ensure that disciplinary actions are properly taken against employees who are involved with such incidents. Represents institute at personnel-related hearings and investigations.

- Handling the issues related to employee disputes & grievances, directing employees to solve their issues related to terms & conditions of employment under the guidance of the Director-General.

- Identify training needs of all employees and incorporate them into Annual Training Plans; Prepare Human Resources Development Plans and execute them promptly; Evaluate training resourcing with a view to optimizing cost, effectiveness, and return on investment for the organization.

- Plan, initiate, and follow up employee engagement activities and maintain high-quality services to ensure total public satisfaction at all levels.

- Writes separation notice for employees separating with cause and conducts exit interviews to determine reasons behind separations.

- Identifying responsibilities to be performed by employees and dividing them into departments or divisions to maximize organizational efficiency.

- Strategic Reporting to Top Management, preparing Standard Operating Procedures & policy planning in terms of key human resources functions, and assisting to verify that all firm and regulatory policies and procedures have been documented, implemented, and communicated.

- Assist the Manager HR to assess the company’s manpower requirements and take actions to meet them, maintain a professional relationship with employment and advertising agencies engaged with HR resourcing, conduct interviews to recruit and select candidates to the relevant positions and follow up the Recruitment and Selection Process.

- Open personnel files for new employees and ensure all necessary documents are available according to the checklist, update and maintain personnel files on a daily basis, feed new employee records to the HRIS system and register them to the Biometric scan device, assign employees to correct rosters, shifts, and payroll groups and maintain updated HRIS system

- Arranging employee training on compliance-related topics, policies, or procedures and assisting in aligning business objectives and strategy with Key performance indicators for departments and individual employees through a Performance Management System.

- Do the necessary correspondence & coordination in relation to employee orientation and conduct the orientation programme in terms of company introduction, conditions of employment, remuneration packages, and succession planning within the organization.

- Assist the Manager HR in managing disciplinary matters & ensuring that the company adhered to the labour regulations at a satisfactory rate.

- Ensure that disciplinary actions are properly taken against employees who violate the conduct of the employee.

- Update HR dashboard to find out deliverables in terms of key areas of HR and prepare Board Papers in connection with employee transfers, promotion, salary increments & other special requirements.

- Assist to develop succession planning policies to facilitate a defined career path: and ensure that employees are identified and groomed for future leadership positions.

- Strategic Reporting to Top Management, preparing Standard Operating Procedures & policy planning in terms of key human resources functions, and assisting to verify that all firm and regulatory policies and procedures have been documented, implemented, and communicated

- Assist the Manager HR to assess the company’s manpower requirements and take actions to meet them, maintain a professional relationship with employment and advertising agencies engaged with HR resourcing, conduct interviews to recruit and select candidates to the relevant positions and follow up the Recruitment and Selection Process.

- Open personnel files for new employees and ensure all necessary documents are available according to the checklist, update and maintain personnel files on a daily basis, feed new employee records to the HRIS system and register them to the Biometric scan device, assign employees to correct rosters, shifts, and payroll groups and maintain updated HRIS system

- Arranging employee training on compliance-related topics, policies, or procedures and assisting in aligning business objectives and strategy with Key performance indicators for departments and individual employees through a Performance Management System.

- Do the necessary correspondence & coordination in relation to employee orientation and conduct the orientation programme in terms of company introduction, conditions of employment, remuneration packages, and succession planning within the organization.

- Assist in collecting information in terms of remuneration, conditions of employment, working conditions from the non-banking industry and compare such details and assist the Manager HR in preparing a competitive environment within the organization.

- Update HR dashboard to find out deliverables in terms of key areas of HR.

- Prepare Board Papers in connection with employee transfers, promotion, salary increments & other special requirements.

- Assist to develop succession planning policies to facilitate a defined career path: and ensure that employees are identified and groomed for future leadership positions.

- Assist the Manager HR to assess the company’s manpower requirements and take actions to meet them, maintain a professional relationship with employment and advertising agencies engaged with HR resourcing, conduct interviews to recruit and select candidates to the relevant positions and follow up the Recruitment and Selection Process.

- Open personnel files for new employees and ensure all necessary documents are available according to the checklist, update and maintain personnel files on a daily basis, feed new employee records to the HRIS system and register them to the Biometric scan device, assign employees to correct rosters, shifts, and payroll groups and maintain updated HRIS system

- Arranging employee training on compliance-related topics, policies, or procedures. Coordinating and organizing employee orientation programmes of the Company.

- Assist in collecting information in terms of remuneration, conditions of employment, working conditions from the non-banking industry and compare such details and assist the Manager HR in preparing a competitive environment within the organization.

- Assist the Manager HR in managing disciplinary matters & ensure that the company adhered to the labour regulations at a satisfactory rate.

- Update HR dashboard to find out deliverables in terms of key areas of HR.

- Actively involved in organizing “Reflection of Sri Lanka”- exposition on trade tourism and investment, parallel to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 as an assistant to the project

- Actively involved in organizing Presidential Export Awards 2013/2014.