Catherine Varous Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, New York

Supported the Global Head of HRIS in development of global presentations, town halls, strategic offsites, ad-hoc analytics, cross departmental projects, budgeting and strategic plans. - Launched (on-budget and on-time) a more robust talent acquisition platform combining the external career site, AI skill matching, and candidate relationship management tools to optimize ROI and provide candidates with an online and mobile interactive journey. - Designed, tested and launched a "termination latency" dashboard as a Workday tool to analyze termination latency statistics more effectively. - Led testing and implementation of automated global payroll change reports reducing report production times and improving quality after an unanticipated project gap.

New York, Ny

Designed and implemented an automated and comprehensive global exit survey across all operating companies in 18 languages in more than 100 countries. - During first year of implementation, exit survey completion rates increased from under 20% to over 75% return rates.

Jersey City, Nj

Managed development and design of an integrated operational system to increase efficiency in the execution of 7 talent processes (performance quartiling, program nomination, leadership pipeline review, mentoring, diversity scorecard, promotion and MD selection). - Collaborated with the Employee Relations and the Employment Law Groups to define the end-to-end involuntary termination process and to develop a systemic solution to track involuntary terminations, including selection, vetting and severance modeling. - Created “As Is” and “To Be” process maps, system requirements, user interface design, data dictionaries, fit gap analyses, use cases, and data requirement mapping.

Jersey City, Nj

Partnered with senior technology management to oversee HR people focused activities (recruiting, training, annual compensation, 360 performance review, promotion, succession planning, MD selection, performance quartiling, and bottom performer review), both strategic and transactional.

Led strategic review of campus recruiting to tactically re-organize work processes and develop a roadmap to systemize the administrative processes in the revenue division.

Collaborated with recruiting management to realign resources in the global recruiting function during a soft recruiting market.

Partnered with GLD leadership to develop, build and launch a diversity accountability scorecard to evaluate diversity performance of senior management globally. Scorecards focused on a combination of quantitative and subjective metrics to promote behavioral change and to influence recruiting, retention and promotion activities in each manager’s span of control.

Managed data analytics team producing workforce reports for the Executive Office.

Senior advisor supporting all aspects of the firm’s Diversity Committee whose members included the co-CEO and Chairman of the firm and senior management.

Proactively managed international assignments. - Developed re-engineering strategies to reduce cost of expatriate and local staff programs.- Researched and implemented office start-up procedures in emerging countries (e.g., Thailand, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, S. Korea, India) regarding labor law, expatriate and local tax issues and competitive compensation and benefits practices.- Spent significant time in Hong Kong as number two HR manager in Asia/Pacific region.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial And Labor Relations

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma

Mup Candidate, Urban Planning

Activities and Societies: Designated Public Service Scholar