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Skye Wallace

Armadale,VIC

Summary

Experienced Senior HR professional with proven success in enabling leaders to plan and attain their strategic and operational objectives through a rewarding HR partnership.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager - People Partnering

RMIT
01.2022 - Current

Senior HR Lead for the College of Business and Law (approx. 1000 employees) Partner with the Deputy Vice Chancellor and the College Executive as a trusted advisor.

  • Design and execute People Strategy to ensure college achieves its strategic plan
  • Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
  • Coach senior leaders to ensure legislative requirements are balanced with commercial priorities
  • Lead engagement initiatives
  • Collaborate with broader People Team to ensure positive outcomes
  • Performance improvement coaching & grievance management
  • Project lead for change programs

HR Business Partner

RMIT
03.2021 - 12.2021

Partnered with the Policy Strategy and Impact Executive as their strategic Business Partner.


  • Collaborated with leadership to assess and improve people practices
  • Responded to complaints of harassment, discrimination, employee grievances, and other sensitive issues
  • Advised on change principles and org design
  • Collaborated with finance to ensure commercial outcomes achieved


Senior HR Advisor

RMIT
06.2018 - 02.2021

HR Business Partner for the Operations Portfolio (approx 1000 professional employees)


  • Diagnose, shift, create and embed culture
  • Deliver transformation projects aligned to enterprise strategy
  • Lead engagement activity
  • Lead cyclical practices including talent evaluation, performance moderation
  • Organisational design activities
  • Coaching on legislation, localised industrial instruments and best practice
  • Case coordination

Team Leader - People Support

Just
11.2015 - 06.2018

Australasia's largest retailer - Just Jeans, Peter Alexander, Smiggle, Portmans, Jay Jays, Jacqui E, Dotti


  • Lead the National HR People Support team of HR Advisors
  • Resolve escalation enquiries (ER/IR)
  • Lead national bulk recruitment projects for peak trade
  • Manage the configuration and maintenance of our HRIS
  • Supported establishment of international markets
  • Talent & succession activity
  • Performance & capability uplift coaching

HR Business Partner

Tradelink, Fletcher
05.2015 - 11.2015

National retailer specialising in Plumbing, Heating and Cooling trade supplies


  • Engagement activities
  • Talent and succession
  • Organisational design
  • IR/ER Case management & investigations

HR Advisor

Credit Union Australia, CUA
07.2013 - 12.2014

Australia's largest customer owned financial institution


  • ER/IR investigations
  • Talent and succession planning
  • Enterprise engagement
  • Remuneration & moderation activity
  • Organisational design
  • Training design & facilitation

Recruitment Advisor

Credit Union Australia
02.2012 - 07.2013

Lead the talent & recruitment activity for retail banking, financial planning and professional sector of the business. (approximately 1000 employees)


  • Talent acquisition practices
  • Strategic projects
  • Succession planning
  • Stakeholder management

HR Coordinator & Payroll

CUA
04.2011 - 02.2012

Leading the HR coordination & employee life-cycle activity for approximately 1000 employees and supported with Payroll delivery.


  • EA & Policy advice
  • Employee life-cycle management
  • Job evaluations
  • Payroll processing
  • Remuneration & metrics reporting
  • Administration support for HR Leaders

HR Admin & Payroll Brisbane

GE Capital
02.2010 - 04.2011

(Formally known as GE Money)

  • Enterprise agreement & policy advice
  • Employee life-cycle
  • Engagement activities
  • Payroll preparation
  • Metrics

Learning & Development Advisor

GE Capital
09.2009 - 02.2010
  • Training facilitation
  • Training needs analysis
  • Updating training material
  • Succession planning
  • Talent acquisition

Education

Bachelor - Business - HR & ER, Employment Relations

Griffith University
12.2010

Skills

  • Coaching
  • Leadership development
  • Change management
  • Engagement
  • Talent & Secession management
  • Org design
  • IR/ER
  • Facilitation & training

Hobbies

Cooking 

Travel


Timeline

Senior Manager - People Partnering

RMIT
01.2022 - Current

HR Business Partner

RMIT
03.2021 - 12.2021

Senior HR Advisor

RMIT
06.2018 - 02.2021

Team Leader - People Support

Just
11.2015 - 06.2018

HR Business Partner

Tradelink, Fletcher
05.2015 - 11.2015

HR Advisor

Credit Union Australia, CUA
07.2013 - 12.2014

Recruitment Advisor

Credit Union Australia
02.2012 - 07.2013

HR Coordinator & Payroll

CUA
04.2011 - 02.2012

HR Admin & Payroll Brisbane

GE Capital
02.2010 - 04.2011

Learning & Development Advisor

GE Capital
09.2009 - 02.2010

Bachelor - Business - HR & ER, Employment Relations

Griffith University
Skye Wallace