Aavi Maharaj Email & Phone Number

Durban, Kzn, Za

Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

As a senior level resource in the Human Resources department, I significantly influence the attraction of competent employees, directly contributing to the achievement of the organization's strategic objectives. I am instrumental in sourcing, attracting, and acquiring top talent for the organization. • Actively contribute to the HR community of practice, sharing insights, best practices, and innovative approaches to talent acquisition, retention, and assessment.• Conduct internal assessment feedback for development of senior employees. • Champion diversity and inclusion in the recruitment process and contribute to achieving targets by more than 80%, aligning with CCBA’s strategy and enhancing the company’s reputation as an inclusive employer. • Continuously drive strategic data initiatives to assist in enhancing and monitoring talent metrics, recruitment processes and assessments process across the group. This involves all elements of CCBA’s day-to-day recruitment processes and long-term strategic intentions.• Contribute to the development and execution of CCBA’s Employee Value Proposition across all touch points. • Led the design and implementation of CCBA’s internal talent risk methodology to identify areas of high risk across senior levels of the business and consistently conduct market analysis across our 14 geographies to close the gap. • Spearheaded the digital transformation initiative in our space which involved enhancing and managing the content on our career site; driving talent to our career site and talent community; and partnering with job boards to have our advertised roles feature on their platform resulting in a 900% increase in active talent visiting our touch points. • System Ownership and Maintenance: working closely with our ATS vendor and country teams to ensure that our ATS is continually being managed and enhanced to cater for the needs of recruiters across the business as well as managing our CMS and lead generation platform.

South Africa

South Africa

•Driving innovation within the assessment industry through the adoption of technology and new assessment protocols;•Providing consulting services in Psychometric Testing and Assessments. This fed into the broader scope of talent management and mapping processes as well as OD processes;•Providing coaching services to clients aimed at development and culture planning.

South Africa

Providing Consulting and Work Objects to Coetzee and Associates: • Coping mechanisms and stress management workshops in relation to COVID-19.• Debriefing of facilitators.• Medico-legal report writing.

South Africa

• Driving business solutions to optimise efficiencies internally; including strong business operational enhancement; this included having the business move to a fully paperless environment through the adoption of tablets; and the enhancement of assessment protocols.• Maintaining and building client relationships.• Providing consulting services to Joint Prosperity clients in Psychometric Testing and Assessments for a broad cluster of processes.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

My role allowed for the strategic and analytical involvement within the Middle Market Segment which caters for close to 1.2 Million customers. This involved:• Building and maintaining various stakeholder relationships to drive growth within the Middle Market segment.• Contributing to the management of the Customer Value Proposition. This involved working closely with various product houses to ensure that a customer strategy was developed and that products were packaged as a holistic solution to the customer.• Conducting insights into the base to explore value extracting opportunities and potential gaps- where gaps exist, drive solutions to rectify. • Designing and ensuring effective migration retention strategies. • Owning the customer relationship across product campaigns and guiding customer centric campaigns across the branch network and direct-to-consumer marketing. Key success in this area had been being the strategic Business partner for the “Your Next Million” campaign. For this I was nominated for Standard Bank’s Mark of Excellence.• Tasked with ensuring profitable across campaigns, branch networks and product utilization through instigating effective customer behavior.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Completed a rotation as per HPCSA requirements by being entrenched in activities within Personal and Business Banking: Retail Banking and supporting Group Functions. The areas within my internship explored: 1)Organisational Psychology2)Human Resources (Personnel) Psychology3)Career Psychology and Employee Wellness/Wellbeing4)Testing and Assessment5)Professional Ethics Key highlights:1) End-to-end involvement within the recruitment phases of the Personal and Business Banking Graduate Programme for 2016 and 2017. This included, but not limited to: Conducting Interviews, providing recommendations, assisting with assessment centres and being involved in recruitment days;2) In-depth involvement within Group Assessments and contribution ( at conception phase) to the Groups new assessment protocol;3) Assistance during Personal and Business Banking's re-structure from a Human Capital perspective.

• Assisted Customer Financial Solutions, Middle Market in driving their Retention Strategy through the activation desk as well as the delivery of Inclusive Banking to the Retention Desk.• Conducted analyses of competitors and customer behaviour in order to identify potential leverage points that could be used for Transactional Products.• Generated monthly customer behaviour reports for the Head of Transactional Products. • Worked on enhancing the Pricing Portfolio in order to produce a model that provided deep insights into revenue generation for the 2017 cycle.

Master Of Social Science, Industrial Psychology

Activities and Societies: Society for Industrial Psychology

Ba(Hons), Industrial Psychology

Activities and Societies: Society for Industrial Psychology

Bachelor Of Social Science, Industrial And General Psychology

Activities and Societies: Society for Industrial Psychology