Sarah Arnold
Interim HR Manager
Experience
Feb 2025 - Present
6 monthsFrankfurt, Germany
Interim HR Manager
Mizuho Securities Europe GmbH | Mizuho Bank Europe
- Supported coordination of a business transfer (including clarifying responsibilities, employee master data transfer, revising and standardizing business processes and templates, communication with affected employees)
- End-to-end recruiting (perm, temp)
- Coordination with hiring managers of the respective departments
- Conducting interviews, answering candidate questions and ensuring a good candidate journey
- Selecting and communicating with headhunters
- Preparing and requesting recruiting budgets and monitoring compliance including salary benchmark processes
- Optimizing recruiting processes
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
1 year 1 monthDüsseldorf, Germany
Interim HR Generalist (EMEA)
Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
- Point of contact for all employees and managers on HR matters in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt
- Responsible for supporting employees throughout the entire employee lifecycle
- Onboarding new hires and organizing joiner processes
- Managing internal approval processes and preparing contracts, contract amendments, and certificates
- Maintaining the HR database and ensuring data quality
- Coordinating with the works council including preparing works council hearings
- Supporting payroll preparation
- Assisting with HR audits
- Preparing references (Haufe)
- Supporting the closure of the Düsseldorf site and business transfer
- End-to-end recruiting (temp and perm) for back and front office
- Successfully recruited 7 perm and 7 temp roles within a year
- Coordination with hiring managers of the respective departments
- Conducting interviews, answering candidate questions and ensuring a good candidate journey
- Selecting and communicating with staffing agencies (temporary staffing, interim)
- Preparing and requesting recruiting budgets and monitoring compliance including salary benchmark processes
- Optimizing recruiting processes
Jul 2023 - Oct 2023
4 monthsEschborn, Germany
Interim HR Manager DACH
Fiskars Group
- End-to-end HR support for the leadership team and employees (office/retail) in the DACH region
- Identifying HR needs and requirements to ensure relevance of current processes
- Leading and coordinating external audits
- Central point of contact for HR topics
- Preparing payroll for Germany (external payroll provider)
- Responsible for HR administration and operational processes
- Running employee benefits & wellbeing projects
- Supporting setup and execution of a Workday project (“People Help”) and answering employee questions on Workday features
- Recruiting trainees, interns and working students
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
10 monthsHamburg, Germany
Interim HR Consultant
TOM TAILOR GmbH
- Flexible work models: successfully set up and improved administrative and contractual structures for flexible work models, including drafting related agreements in coordination with the works council
- Contract management: handling employment contracts and contract changes
- Preparing references and certificates (Haufe)
- Managing inquiries on probation periods and fixed-term contracts
- Maintaining employee master data in SAP HCM
- Handling hires and contract changes in ServiceNow
- Developing and optimizing HR workflows and processes
- Supporting Young Talents: reorganized the “Young Talents” area (full-cycle recruiting, updated trainee programs, optimized HR/department interface, improved performance review and probation check formats) reporting directly to the CPO
- First point of contact for Young Talents (trainees, working students, interns) and advising departments on trainee selection and deployment (Umantis)
May 2022 - Sep 2022
5 monthsBerlin, Germany
Talent Lead
Value for Good
- Advising and supporting management on strategic direction of talent (learning & development, recruiting strategy, culture & values)
- Recruiting executives (project managers, principals) including active sourcing and working with executive search agencies
- Leading talent projects
- Central point of contact for HR topics
- Optimizing and harmonizing HR processes
- Career coaching for employees and managers
- Running a multi-step culture process to shape company culture and strengthen employee and client engagement
- HR administration: contract management, certificates, preparing references, maintaining personnel data in Personio
Oct 2015 - Mar 2022
6 years 6 monthsFrankfurt, Germany
Senior Specialist, Human Resources
Bain & Company Germany
- First point of contact for a team of about 80 consultants (focus: leadership preparation)
- Supervising the performance review process (annual evaluations) including moderating board meetings
- Talent development – identifying strengths, development areas and career paths including selecting suitable training/coaching
- Advising on design and launch of new training formats
- Strategic staffing planning
- Designing and implementing various HR projects (e.g. integration of non-business hires, mental health, female initiatives)
- Developing and executing a tailored onboarding, integration and career program for non-business hires, significantly reducing turnover
- Leading and coaching HR team members, both functionally and disciplinarily
- Recruiting HR team members and collaborating closely with the recruiting team on consultant hires
- HR administration: maintaining digital personnel files (Workday), contract management from onboarding to offboarding including severance negotiation, preparing references and certificates, handling vacation requests, maintaining internal databases
- Managing exits in cooperation with the EMEA Career Advisory Team
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 1 monthEschborn, Germany
Recruitment Assistant
Gruppe Deutsche Börse
- Corresponding with applicants, departments and service providers
- Reviewing and posting job ads on the internal job board, career page and job portals
- Participating in interviews and contributing to their evaluation and recommendations to departments
- Preparing hiring documents and maintaining related databases
- Preparing board materials for position approval processes via the works council
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
3 monthsOberursel, Germany
Personnel Administrator (Temp Staffing)
First Stop Reifen Auto Service GmbH
- General HR administration
- Supporting severance calculations for redundancies and preparing related documents
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedFrench
Intermediate Education
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Diploma in Sociology · Sociology · Frankfurt, Germany · 1.6
Certifications & licenses
Systemic Coach
Systemic Center of WISPO AG
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