Dr. Elena Prosvirkina, PhD, DBA

- Driving staffing initiatives and programs that align and support business objectives of the Division - Developing organizational strategies by identifying and researching people issues; contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to the Division’s strategic direction - Providing expert professional advice to senior management in different areas of HR, including best practice and workforce development, performance management, staffing, etc. - Responsible for continuous improvement and innovation as it relates to improving processes, addressing staffing, performance, creating action plans - Implementing and monitoring Employee Performance Management programs for the Division that is goal-oriented and stimulate performance - Managing employee availability, allocating resources across projects and practice groups - Identifing staffing needs and creating job descriptions - Automating manual staffing processes

• Career counselling: staying in close contact with consultants to know their individual consultant profiles, development needs and preferences; counseling them as appropriate • Performance management: organizing local people performance committees, preparing EEMA performance committees, tracking feedbacks, develop performance improvement plans and coaching agendas, etc. • Diversity and Inclusion: participating in the EEMA D&I initiative, driving agenda for the “We Support Women” Board meetings and organizing female connectivity events • Leadership Development: leading the RDGL initiative (feedback of the junior colleagues and their assessment of leaders’ strengths and opportunities for improvement) • Project management staffing: balancing the needs of Partners, clients and consultants in making all staffing decisions and communicating those decisions to all counter parties -Determining staffing assignments and makes complex trade-offs as appropriate -Communicating daily with the partnership to maintain up-to-date view of pipeline and the needs of business; achieve optimum deployment of consultants to projects -Maintaining close links to the European and Global networks to ensure local needs for imported staff are met as well as identifying opportunities for local staff to work abroad -Managing short-term assignments and requests for staffing from international offices and local leadership (e.g. proposals, business development, internal initiatives) -Performing weekly billability review and bi-weekly billability forecast -Maintaining accurate overview of current and future availability and ensures accurate records of staffing assignments and pipeline

• Recruitment: planning and organization of various recruitment activities both for campus and experienced candidates, developing HR brand in Russia • Adaptation and Integration: managing new employee orientation, on-boarding, and training programs • Learning and Development: developing L&D strategy in Russia, monitoring L&D budget, interaction with local managers, Goldman Sachs University team and global training providers • Benefits and Wellness: advise on benefit and wellness needs, monitoring budget, evaluate benefit contract bids, administration of local employee benefit programs • Policies and Procedures: developing local policies and procedures in line with internal global requirements and Russian labour law • HR and Payroll Administration: managing, coordinating and executing all HR administration in accordance with the Russian labour law, preparing information for the Payroll team • Consultancy: identifying and resolving employee-related matters or providing guidance and mediation on staffing and management issues • Cross-divisional Projects: clarifying project objective, setting timetables and schedules, conducting research, developing and organizing information • Diversity and Inclusion: participating in the EEMA D&I initiative, driving agenda for the local Women’s Network meetings and organizing D&I events • Management and Coaching: managing an intern in the Moscow office, acting as department head in HR Director absence, coaching of interns and analysts in other Continental European offices

Employer branding; wellness coverage; internal communications; HR administration; visa support letters coordination; Citibank staff accounts administration; ad-hoc support on HCM projects.

Attracting clients for participation in customized salary surveys and “HR Benchmarking Survey 2009”; interaction with clients regarding salary surveys; preparation of presentations and proposals for clients on Job evaluation, HR Benchmarking Survey; data collection (Companies’ HR startegies in financial crisis, changes in HR Management in Russia in the crisis, Russian HR practices, etc.).

Assistance in salary review and bonuses’ calculation, assistance in medical insurance, iHR databases’ maintenance, recruitment, ad-hoc support on HR projects.

Data collection on competitors’ compensation policy, assistance in organization of corporate events, recruitment, HR administration