Surbhi Thukral Uppal

Aspire is the leading all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance for a new generation of entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering startups and SMBs to realise their full potential. - Lead senior level hiring for technology roles across India, Singapore, London, and Vietnam (Engineering, Product, and QA) - Designed and implemented interview processes and guidelines for all new and leadership roles - Trained interviewers to enhance collaboration, improve outcomes, and elevate candidate experience - Partner directly with the CTO to develop sourcing strategies and engage passive candidates - Create and maintain data-driven reports for weekly hiring performance analysis - Manage the end-to-end candidate journey from sourcing to offer, including regular prep calls to build strong candidate relationships - Recognized for building strong stakeholder relationships, with positive feedback from internal teams and external candidates - Serve as the TA Partner and HRBP for all India-based employees while leading the India Tech Talent Acquisition team

- Partner closely with business leaders to grow the executive leadership team for technology & product roles - Team Lead for a small team, mentoring new employees and conducting training sessions - Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines using LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing techniques across APAC (Tokyo, Singapore, and India) - Contribute to special projects and recruiting initiatives, including organizing leadership talks and webinars - Actively network and engage with stakeholders to enhance candidate experience and improve Net Promoter Score (NPS) and candidate engagement

- Stakeholder Management: Partner with hiring managers, sourcing team & recruitment managers to build strategies for hiring the best talent. - Manage the experienced technical hiring recruitment process for software development, UX & design, product and other technological roles. - Work with the sourcing team to build a proactive recruitment and targeted talent acquisition program to build talent pools for various roles and coordinate with the scheduling team for scheduling interviews and collecting interview feedback. - Built, owned, and nurtured candidate relationships and stayed connected right through to the point of hire to provide the best candidate experience. - Work with global teams on projects that bring in change focusing on implementing interventions & suggesting process improvements. (Example: One EG, Recruiter-Sourcer model) - Utilized tools like LinkedIn Insights to provide market reports to HMs having a data driven approach. - Closed more than 100+ roles in a year at Expedia Group operating at 300% efficiency metric. - Use a healthy mix of sourcing channels with 25% ER, 45% outbound sourcing, 10% internal and 20% inbound applications & other sources respectively. - Launched “One Team Hiring/One EG” & at Expedia Group in India which was then adopted globally. - Reduced Time to hire (TTF) from 96 days to 30 days by the One EG/OTH method

- Responsible for end to end recruitment process (sourcing, screening, scheduling & closing) for various financial and non-technical positions. - Campus hiring for non technical roles both in graduate and post graduate B-schools. - Supporting as HR Operations Specialist for the DESCO office in New York. (Resume Reviews and Application sorting) - Handling the contractor hiring process for various third-party vendors - Supporting the background check team in conducting the background screening process for global offices of D.E Shaw.

- Responsible for the end to end hiring process (sourcing, screening, scheduling, closing & onboarding) for all technical & non-tech roles which included Sales, Marketing, Strategy, UX, Product & Software Developers. - Onboarding and assisting in the Background check process for all selected candidates. - Being the HR Business Partner for all employees.

-Audit Analyst Analysis of audit files with extensive data and preparation of final audit documents. -XBRL A tool used for translating audit files and financial reports into a reporting language for further use. -UK GAAP and IFRS Gained expertise in various accounting standards with extensive trainings on IFRS. -IDEA A KPMG tool used for converting pdf documents into excel files.

- Majors in Human Resource Management - Minors in Consulting

- Member - Cultural Comittee - Core Member, Organising Team, Annual Fest-Nexus