Sarah A.

Interim HR Manager

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Larnaca, Cyprus

Experience

Feb 2025 - Present
11 months

Interim HR Manager

Mizuho Securities Europe GmbH | Mizuho Bank Europe

  • Support in coordinating a business transfer (e.g. clarifying responsibilities, transferring employee master data, reviewing and standardizing business processes and templates, communicating with affected employees)
  • End-to-end recruiting (perm, temp)
  • Coordination with hiring managers from the respective departments
  • Conducting interviews, answering candidate questions, and ensuring a positive candidate journey
  • Selecting and communicating with headhunters
  • Preparing and requesting recruiting budgets and monitoring compliance, incl. salary benchmark processes
  • Optimizing recruiting processes
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
1 year 1 month
Düsseldorf, Germany

Interim HR Generalist (EMEA)

Mizuho Bank, Ltd.

  • Point of contact for all employees & managers on all HR matters in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt
  • Supporting employees throughout the entire employee lifecycle
  • Onboarding new hires and organizing joiner processes
  • Managing internal approval processes and preparing contract documents, contract changes, certificates
  • Maintaining the HR database and ensuring data quality
  • Coordinating with the works council incl. preparing works council hearings
  • Supporting preliminary payroll
  • Assisting with HR audits
  • Preparing references and testimonials (Haufe)
  • Supporting the downsizing of the Düsseldorf location and business transfer
  • End-to-end recruiting (temp and perm) for back and front office
  • Coordination with hiring managers from the respective departments
  • Conducting interviews, answering candidate questions, and ensuring a positive candidate journey
  • Selecting and communicating with staffing agencies (temporary employment, interim)
  • Preparing and requesting recruiting budgets and monitoring compliance, incl. salary benchmark processes
  • Optimizing recruiting processes
Jul 2023 - Oct 2023
4 months
Eschborn, Germany

Interim HR Manager DACH

Fiskars Group

  • End-to-end HR support for the leadership team and staff (office/retail) in the DACH region
  • Identifying HR needs and requirements to ensure the relevance of current processes
  • Assisting and coordinating external audits
  • Central point of contact for HR topics
  • Preparing payroll for Germany (external payroll)
  • Responsible for HR administration and operational processes
  • Carrying out projects in employee benefits & wellbeing
  • Supporting the implementation and roll-out of a Workday project ("People Help") and answering employee questions about Workday functions
  • Recruiting trainees, interns, and working students
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
10 months
Hamburg, Germany

Interim HR Specialist

TOM TAILOR GmbH

  • Establishing and further developing administrative and contractual structures for flexible working time models, including creating corresponding agreements in consultation with the works council
  • Managing employment contracts and contract changes in general
  • Preparing references and certificates (Haufe)
  • Handling inquiries about probation periods and fixed-term contracts
  • Maintaining employee master data in SAP HCM
  • Processing hires and contract changes in ServiceNow
  • Developing and optimizing HR workflows and processes
  • Redesigning the Young Talents area with direct reporting line to the Chief People Officer
  • First point of contact for young talents (trainees, working students, interns) and advising departments on selecting and placing trainees (Umantis)
May 2022 - Sep 2022
5 months
Berlin, Germany

Talent Lead

Value for Good

  • Advising and supporting the management board on the strategic direction of the talent area (learning & development, recruiting strategy, culture & values)
  • Recruiting leaders (project managers, principals) incl. active sourcing and collaboration with executive search agencies
  • Project management in the talent area
  • Central point of contact for HR topics
  • Optimizing and harmonizing HR processes
  • Professional coaching of employees and managers
  • Planning, organizing, and implementing a cultural process
  • HR administration: contract management, certificates, preparing references, maintaining personnel data in Personio
Oct 2015 - Mar 2022
6 years 6 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Senior Specialist, Human Resources

Bain & Company Germany

  • First point of contact for a team of about 80 consultants (focus: preparing for leadership roles)
  • Supervise the performance review process (annual employee evaluations) including moderating board meetings
  • Talent development – identifying strengths, areas for growth and suitable career paths, including selecting appropriate training/coaching
  • Advising on designing and rolling out new training formats
  • Strategic workforce planning (staffing)
  • Designing and implementing various HR projects (e.g., integrating non-business hires, mental health, female initiatives)
  • Providing professional and disciplinary leadership and coaching to HR team members
  • Recruiting HR team members and working closely with the recruiting team on hiring consultants
  • HR administration: maintaining digital personnel files (Workday), contract management from onboarding to offboarding including negotiating termination agreements, preparing reference letters and certificates, processing leave requests, maintaining internal databases
  • Exit management in collaboration with the EMEA Career Advisory Team
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 1 month
Eschborn, Germany

Recruitment Assistant

Gruppe Deutsche Börse

  • Correspondence with applicants, departments and service providers
  • Editing and posting job ads on the internal job board, career site and job portals
  • Participating in interviews and helping with their evaluation and recommendations to departments
  • Preparing hiring documents and maintaining the database accordingly
  • Preparing board documents as part of the position approval process via the works council
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
3 months
Oberursel, Germany

HR administrator (temporary staffing)

First Stop Reifen Auto Service GmbH

  • General HR administration
  • Assisting with severance calculations for redundancy dismissals and preparing related documents

Skills

  • Strategic Personnel Administration & Strategic Personnel Management

  • Hr Administration Incl. Preliminary Payroll

  • Hr Project Management

  • Hr Process Optimization

  • Strategic Training & Development (Pe) And Organizational Development (Oe)

  • Talent Acquisition Incl. Active Sourcing | Employer Branding

  • Personnel Development | Performance Management

  • Systemic Coaching

  • Hr Software Workday, Personio, Sap Hcm, Successfactors, Datev, Haufe, Umantis

  • Ms Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Onenote

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Intermediate

Education

IHK Frankfurt am Main

Bachelor Professional of Human Resources Management · Human Resources Management · Frankfurt, Germany

Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität

Diploma - Sociologist · Sociology · Frankfurt, Germany · 1,6

Certifications & licenses

Systemic Coach

Systemic Center of WISPO AG

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