HR Generalist

POSITION OVERVIEW AND QUALIFICATIONS

Position: HR Generalist / Office Administrator

Location: Bangalore, India or Pune, India

Hours: Full Time

Years of Experience: Minimum 7 years

Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree

Travel: Yes

Relocation: Yes

Working hours: 2:00pm to 11:00pm IST for Bangalore / 4:00pm to 1:00am IST for Pune

AVANA Capital is an AI driven small business lending and investment platform company that has an immediate full-time opportunity for a “HR Generalist” who will help our company advancing our organization with best-in-class HR processes and office administration policies. Come join our mission and make your mark with our outstanding people.

We believe our families are the most important people in our lives. We believe that our work should speak for itself, and we believe that everyone should be given a chance to succeed and grow. We also believe there is no substitute for hard work and that when we falter, we get up and do it again. We come to work with one singular goal and that is to create jobs and provide clean energy in America. We believe in talking less and executing as per our client’s timeline. Do you see yourself thriving in an entrepreneurial culture and spending time with disciplined business warriors? If so, then we invite you to read on.

The ideal candidate would deeply understand AVANA’s way of working across various locations and contribute significantly to ensure productive measures are taken to create a better employee experience. The opportunity becomes an integral part of creating impactful strides within employee community. The individual accomplishes significantly by collaborating with other operations and HR administrators in Bahrain and the US by contributing to creating employee processes, documenting processes, and contributing to improving employee throughput. The desired outcome from these actions intersects with:

• Business communities across Credit, Sales, Marketing and Technology
• Streamline the local office with the rest of the AVANA locations
• Maintaining office structure in alignment with the office policies in the US and Bahrain
• And significant impact on other future AVANA Companies’ products

As HR Officer, you will become the first point of contact in India for all HR-related queries from employees and external partners.

• Areas of responsibility include office coordination, human resources management, payroll entry, and administrative support to the Country Manager
• Maintain all employee documentation and employee personnel files
• Employee time sheet review and verification
• Coordinate employee hiring process from postings to new employee orientation
• Benefits and staff compensation administration
• Ensure compliance with state and central government labor laws and regulations
• Review and approve supply requisitions, assigning and monitor clerical functions; order supplies and equipment as needed
• Travel arrangement and event planning (conferences, trainings, etc as needed)
• Interface with IT department on proper functioning of office equipment
• Schedule and follow-up on meetings, appointments, and interviews
• Facilitation of employee on boarding - new hires, review of paperwork, file creation
• Review and record PTO and Insurance premium report for Payroll department
• Responds timely to inquiries and requests from managers and employees regarding human resource policies, procedures, and employee benefit plans as well as employment verification
• Assists in the creation and implementation of new procedures/controls to improve performance and increase departmental efficiency.
• Assumes additional responsibilities, as appropriate.
• To perform any additional requirement, tasks, and duties outside of his/her scope of work as deemed necessary by the Country Manager or the Management.
• To ensure that the standards required by Law and by Management are always maintained in all areas of operations.
• Changes in business may require alterations to this Job Description

• Minimum a Bachelor’s degree with outstanding academic performance
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in various streams of human resources, office administrator and talent acquisition
• Prior experience in banking / non-banking financial services firms along with HR Certification will be given priority
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
• Ability to take initiative and work independently
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task and independently problem solve
• Experience in handling Personnel data system, phone screening and scheduling appointments
• Creative personality with ability to suggest improvements and attention to details
• Ability to maintain flexibility, demonstrate composure while switching between tasks efficiently in a rapidly changing multi-national environment
• Exceptional people skills-strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills are a must ability to notice discrepancies in data
• Strong organizational and stress management skills who can work with minimal supervision

The interview process is as follows:

• Phone Screen by a Team Manager
• Online Psychometric Assessment
• Interview by HR Experts
• Final Interview by the Country General Manager

AVANA Companies is focused on small businesses in America along with regulated CUSO, Asset Management Firm and a FDIC Bank. Together with our growing mix of accredited investors, family offices, and institutional investors, we provide financing for permanent real estate mortgage loans under the United States SBA program, construction loans, small balance unsecured loans and bridge loans.

At AVANA Companies, we specialize in lending to specific niche industries that we’re highly knowledgeable in, such as hospitality, elderly care facilities, and healthcare facilities, because it enables us to provide the best possible service for our borrowers and minimize risk for our investors. Our company has launched two platforms recently – a small business lending platform (LendThrive™) that will drive online originations for small balance lending on working capital, equipment, inventory and accounts receivable. Our second platform (EqualSeat™) is to provide access to retail investors to co-invest with institutional investors in SME loans. Join us and become part of an organization of higher impact.