Reported to the Global CFO, serve as primary resource for day-to-day HR administration, including compensation, benefits, payroll, recruiting, employee relations, retention, and special projects across capital markets, investment banking, and infrastructure. • Hired to improve efficiency within HR department after global merger of two companies, combining two benefits plans and payroll systems, while tasked with reducing vendor expense and overlap. • Led a team of two HR professionals supporting 350 employees in eight offices across the US. • Designed and launched the firm’s global careers webpage, global online performance review system and daily health check system (pandemic related). • Worked closely with Legal Department to manage and carry out reductions in force, entity acquisitions, restructuring, and building of new business lines, mitigating risk to the firm.• Negotiated and managed corporate benefits, improve procedures, upgraded payroll system to improve HRIS, ensuring the continued relevance of HR strategies and services to the changing needs of the business.• Member of diversity committee and COVID response team• Responsible for internal and external audit responses and business continuity for the department.• Recruited for an average of thirty positions per year for all levels, using on-campus, LinkedIn and external agencies.

Manage human resources for Japanese subsidiary of a global custodial trust bank of 200 employees.- Responsible for daily HR operations within a culturally diverse environment, managing salary surveys, year-end compensation process, budgeting/planning, recruitment, immigration, employee relations, and internal communications, supervising a staff of two. - Work with senior management and line managers on reorganization and productivity optimization. - Develop succession plans and work on diversity challenges within a top-heavy population.- Provide group and individual training to local and foreign managers and staff on topics including leadership/management, communication skills, performance appraisals, how to handle staff conflicts, and anti-harassment/discrimination.

Managed HR for an international population with particular focus on organizational design, executive counseling, talent acquisition & development, expatriation, relocation, and employee relations for three banking entities covering NY, Mexico and Canada, supervising a department of five. Worked closely with Management in Belgium and France within a lending, securitization and fixed income trading environment, including a registered broker dealer. - Hands-on supervision of benefits, 401k/pension plan, payroll (US and Canada), compensation, performance review process, recruitment, and internal communications/events. - Executed local and global strategic decisions, leading change through restructuring, reductions, and retention. - Developed and managed global mobility programs, immigration process, domestic and international relocation, and expatriate tax planning. - Created and implemented post-merger strategies resulting from acquisition of a non-regulated entity, consolidating benefits, payroll, compensation, retention and retirement plans. - Controlled $40 million staff expense budget annually, optimizing costs through vendor selection and implementation of cost efficient programs.

(formerly CDC IXIS)- Handled recruiting, career management, employee relations, staff development, supervision of payroll, and year-end compensation for a population of 450 employees in a fixed income and equities capital markets operation.- Managed global mobility, including international transfers, visa procurement, coordination of assignment benefits, tax equalizations, and design of expatriate compensation packages for inbound and outbound assignees.- Developed global assignment processes, streamlining internal and external procedures to improve performance.- Conducted new hire orientations and on-boarding of business units of up to thirty hires at a time.- Trained and developed in-house staff on expatriate policies and issues improving service delivery.

Manager, Global Mobility (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young), 1/01-10/01-Provided strategy and process improvement solutions for assignment management of global employees, expatriate compensation, and reporting.- Liaison between Cap Gemini and Ernst & Young assignment management groups, improving policy and procedures while assisting with integration of new organizational structure in a global HR capacity.- Developed new international assignment programs to align policies with business agendas and effectively run expatriate function for newly merged (CGEY) entity. - Managed the visa renewal project for 1000 foreign nationals, creating strategy and implementing inbound H-1 and L-1 visa amendment process with outside counsel during sale of E&Y to Cap Gemini.Senior Expatriate Representative (Ernst & Young LLP), 8/98-1/01- Assisted clients with expatriate management, supporting all aspects of international relocation including compensation, policies, assignment letters, cost estimates, and conducted assignment orientations for senior level partner expatriates worldwide.- Consulted on new account transitions, documenting best practices and process flows. Spent six months on site at Coca Cola (E&Y’s largest client) during transition. Created outsourced model and in-house procedures to train and develop junior staff. Led internal training sessions.- Participated with sales team on demonstrations for potential clients and assisted with RFPs.- Created and implemented training manuals for clients documenting day-to-day tasks.

- Managed student/ professional work abroad program for French trainees in the US and American interns in France, handling immigration and relocation for approximately 500 participants per year. Liaison between candidates, host companies, governmental agencies including INS and American consulates abroad.- Administered J-1 visa program, monthly accounting, annual reports, departmental budgets, marketing and promotion, and managed the annual program fees of approximately $800k/year.- Created and implemented marketing plan for promotion of company services targeted at recruiting American students and French companies.