HR/Admin HR Manager

Key responsibilities

1. Recruitment and onboarding

• Plan manpower, write job descriptions, and source candidates through job portals, referrals, and agencies.

• Screen candidates, schedule interviews, run structured scorecards, and manage offers.

• Handle background verification, appointment letters, joining formalities, and induction.

2. Payroll and salary administration

• Run monthly payroll covering attendance, leave, deductions, and arrears.

• Issue accurate salary slips on time.

• Process PF, ESI, professional tax, and TDS on salary, and issue Form 16.

• Design salary structures and manage increments, bonus, and gratuity.

3. Expense and reimbursement management

• Draft and enforce the travel and expense policy.

• Verify claims against policy and receipts, coordinate approvals with finance, and ensure timely reimbursement.

4. Training and development

• Run training needs analysis and build the annual training calendar and budget.

• Organise mandatory training (POSH, workplace safety, code of conduct) and skill programmes, and track their effectiveness.

5. Performance management

• Run goal setting, mid-year and annual appraisals, and the increment and promotion cycle.

• Manage performance improvement plans where needed.

6. Compliance and statutory

• Ensure compliance with the Labour Codes, EPF Act, ESI Act, Payment of Gratuity Act, Bonus Act, Maternity Benefit Act, Shops and Establishments Act, and POSH Act.

• File returns on time, maintain statutory registers and records, and coordinate audits and inspections.

• Keep HR policies and the employee handbook up to date.

7. Employee relations and exit

• Handle grievances and disciplinary matters (show-cause notice, inquiry, action) and run engagement activities.

• Manage resignations, exit interviews, handover, full and final settlement, and relieving and experience letters.

8. HR reporting

• Track headcount, attrition, time-to-hire, hiring cost, and absenteeism, and report to management.

Required skills

• Strong working knowledge of Indian labour laws and payroll compliance

• Experience with an HRMS or payroll tool (Zoho People, Keka, greytHR, or similar) and strong Excel skills

• Strong interviewing, negotiation, and communication skills

• Confidentiality, integrity, and sound judgement

• Fluency in English and Hindi (and the local language, if relevant)

Preferred

• MBA/PGDM in HR from a recognised institute

• Experience in at least 2 years

• Exposure to multi-location teams

• It is a Full Time Recruiter / HR / Admin job for candidates with 2 - 5 years of experience.