SOHAIB IFTIKHAR
Phone: 00971 527144483 | E-mail: sohaib.iftikhar@kbr.com | Address: Rimco Investment Building, Dubai Media City, UAE
Career Summary
I have majorly served large MNCs throughout my career for more than 10 years. I have worked 6 years in T&D in Human Resources, Recruitment to follow and currently I am working in Payroll & Legal. English is my first language; hence, communication, analytical & computer skills are my strengths.
Payroll Specialist in Employee Relations Dept. (Garnishments) | KBR - Kellogg, Brown & Root, Dubai | from Jan 2013 to Present
I work in employee payroll and deal with government agencies & attorneys for multiple incomes withholding orders, payroll deductions, taxation, and reconciliations. The highlights for the job responsibilities are as follows;
I process checks and electronic fund transfers for employees, and legal statutory departments. I liaise with treasury and financial institutions for account funding and cost allocation.
I maintain third party check and electronic fund transfer payment report(s) every week, vendor bank account setup in company’s system and trace each payment. I am taking care of all employee payment deductions, payment postings and multiple cost center account clearings in SAP, Oracle & JD Edwards.
I am also handling verification of work hour entries, attendance for employees from multiple work sites to ensure smooth payroll process and zero discrepancies.
One of my major challenge and task is to co-ordinate and work with the courts and attorneys for statutory deductions enforced on employees from their wages for various debts, defaulted taxes, alimony, family support and bankruptcy.
I am a key person to handle and answer all queries from employees pertaining to their wage deductions, and I also handle queries for reconciliations from governmental agencies, vendors and financial Institutions.
HR Administrator | Dubai South, Jebel Ali formerly Dubai World Central a company of Dubai Aviation City Corp. | from Jan 2012 to Jan 2013
My responsibilities in this role were more towards recruitment than purely human resources, as company wanted to utilize my expertise in their newly formed subsidiary DuServe Facility Management which was undergoing through an extensive overseas and local recruitment. Here I had the opportunity to learn on how to deal with multiple recruitment challenges along with my routine HR administration tasks.
I was handling recruitment which involved me in screening CVs, phone interviews, short-listing of candidates and final interviews. I was also preparing offer letters, labor contracts, dealing with PROs and visa processing documentations as per UAE law.
My main area was to carry out the entire local recruitment process for Fresh Graduates (Emiratis), Experience professionals, and Management level which included talent hunt by screening in-hand CVs, giving advertisement in newspapers, searching the right profile on the subscribed job portals, and by giving advertisement on the web platforms, if required.
I was managing overseas recruitment, where I was responsible to carry out the entire process including preparation of necessary legal documentations, their attestations, approvals, co-ordination with agencies and handling of employee files which were large in numbers.
I was coordinating with finance & operations to get manpower recruitment budgets, approvals and was responsible to provide them with market surveys for minimum and average salary for each position to assist Business Development Management team to remain updated and provide the right quotations to the clients for a more profitable business.
With the ongoing recruitment, and on-boarding candidates I was maintaining many HR related reports manually. Since, the business was new and the company was still planning to hire more staff in HR, I had the opportunity to run the show single handedly.
Sr. Training & Development Executive (Asst. Mgr.) | IBEX Global formerly TRG [The Resource Group] Karachi, Pakistan | from Sep 2006 – Jan 2012
In this company I started as a customer service representative and with my performance and ability I secured three promotions in the course of +5 years. Here I worked very hard to achieve my goals and one fine day I became an expert in Training & Development, and I was training the American-clients, as well as the local or Pakistani client’s businesses. My core expertise were to recruit staff, train them on customer services, then train them on client’s products and then further provide them On-job training to ensure quality staff is on board. Later as the business grew, I was leading the department with the crew of six trainers specialized in each industry to serve the clients.
I conducted NHT (New Hire Trainings), CST (Client Specific Trainings), OJT (On-Job trainings), Learning & knowledge programs, Management Trainings, Soft Skill Trainings, Targeted Trainings and OD Programs (strategic & corporate).
I was managing departmental budgets, costs and requirements. Handled T&D reporting standards, trainer’s performance dashboards, train the trainer sessions to improve our quality and training course updates.
Created all main training presentations, training plans and I was leading management level trainings.
I launched employee development competitions, team building & fun learnings programs/concepts to bring energy & enthusiasm into our trainings and to achieve company goals with innovation.
I effectively delivered results to the businesses and company’s profits raised by 15% as a result of quality we provided, competitors were of no match and we raised our prices and earned higher than usual profits. The staff I trained for business projects are as follows;
Cordia / Mytel (USA), Packet 8 USA, Charter Broadband USA, Orange Broadband UK, Global Recruiters TRG USA, Barclays Bank Pakistan, Standard Chartered Bank Pakistan, Unilever Pakistan, Tracker (C-track) Pakistan, Qubee Broadband Pakistan & Regional Human Resource & Training Services Association Pakistan.
Highest Education:
Born in 1985, Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration Degree Holder | Majors (Human Resource Management).
University: Preston Institute of Management, Science & Technology, PIMSAT Shahrah-e-Faisal Campus, Karachi, approved with Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
Other Courses & Certifications:
"Leadership Training".
“Effective Business Communication Skills”
“Operational Financial Reporting and Analysis & Microsoft Advance Excel"
“Implementing Effective Coaching Techniques".
"Corporate Management Training".
“MS Office, Motivation and Team Building”.
“Building Relationships for Successful Business Communications”.
Achievements:
Certificate / Award for “The Idea of the year ‘2010” on launching A-Bay Training program and making it a success from Telenor – a cellular company.
Received an Award for dedication and innovation from The Resource Group.
I completed my six months of “train the trainer & leadership training” from American corporate training consultants AI Mir, which I had to attend during my work hours which made it more challenging, and completing/balancing it successfully left me with an ever lasting memory in my career.
Soft-wares Known to Me / Applications I can use with Expertise:
Microsoft Office MS Advance Excel
SAP
Oracle
Hyperion Siebel 6 & 7
JD Edwards Module 1 CRM