Cecilia C.

🚀 As Head of People at Howard Financial Services, I’m leading hyper-growth—scaling the company from 10 accountants to 75+ team members globally in under a year. 🌍 We’re expanding fast, and I’m deeply people- and organization-oriented, with a strong focus on supporting and understanding overseas talent as we continuously hire accountants, finance professionals, and tax experts from around the world. 🛠️ I streamline global people operations using Deel, Rippling, Workable, Notion, Gusto, Indeed, Upwork and LinkedIn, ensuring smooth hiring, onboarding, payroll, and remote-work processes across multiple countries and cultures. 🎯 I drive culture, talent strategy, and organizational design while owning recruitment, onboarding, performance, payroll, and remote-work practices—serving as the go-to leader for all things People Ops. 🔥 In this rapid scale-up environment, I’m showing exactly what I’m made of: strong leadership, deep cultural understanding, and the ability to build and support a high-performing global workforce at speed.

💡 I founded CC Hunters, an HR firm supporting diverse small and mid-sized businesses with recruiting and HR advisory. 📌 I delivered end-to-end HR consulting—organizational design, talent acquisition, employee engagement, and compliance—helping companies build strong people foundations and scale effectively. 🤝 Working closely with leadership teams, I created people-first strategies tailored to their growth, culture, and workforce needs across different industries and backgrounds.

• Human Resources, Payroll & Recruiting Management • Create Policies and procedures • Planning and conducting practices to reach company goals • Consulting and collaborating with leaders regarding employee relations and performance • Responding to team member compensation and benefit inquiries • Assess HR-related needs, corporate plans, effective practices • Partner with CEO, clients and project managers to provide daily HR guidance • Solve complex employee relation issues. • Work closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale and increase productivity and retention

• HR Infrastructure Development: Crafting policies, procedures, onboarding processes, internal communications, and employee engagement strategies. • Talent Acquisition: End-to-end recruitment across diverse geographies (US, Philippines, Canada, Mexico, South America, and beyond), ensuring a diverse and qualified workforce. • Compliance & Legal: Expertise in employment laws and regulations to ensure organizational compliance and risk mitigation. Strategic Planning: Aligning HR initiatives with business objectives to drive growth and performance

• Assess, anticipate & prioritize HR-related needs, corporate plans, effective practices and delivering people solutions aligned to business objectives. • Partner with line management, clients and project managers to provide daily HR guidance • Solve complex employee relation issues. • Work closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale and increase productivity and retention • Deliver key HR initiatives including workforce planning, restructuring, resourcing, talent management, pay and reward, employee relations, employee engagement and performance management. • Evaluates issues and trends to provide proactive insights for HR solution • Partners with Payroll, Compensation and Benefits functions as needed to provide solutions for employees.

• Propose attraction strategies, retention, development and talent engagement, in order to meet the objectives set by the business, taking care of the company's equity and internal well-being. • Act as a strategic partner with Project Managers in order to help them in the growth of projects. • Provide solutions, training and advice to management and or teams in a wide range of HR best practices and policies with the aim of promoting employee satisfaction, with the company and the projects. • Work as a team with the area of ​​L&D for promotions and development of individual career plans, in order to achieve the correct monitoring of the processes. • Act as the main point of contact regarding procedures related to Human Resources, working with other areas to promote the well-being of employees • Follow up on bands and salary reviews in order to maintain the company's internal equity

• People management • Manage the entire life cycle of the contracting from the supply, selection, hiring, negotiation and follow-up of collaborators. • In charge of the Compensation and Benefits area. • Organization of corporate events and Team Building. • Internal communications. • Measurement and satisfaction surveys. • Performance management • HR strategies, formulation, updating and implementation of policies. • Benchmark and market analysis

• Recruitment • Headhunting • Screening CVs for requirements and skill set • Maintaining candidates database • Event organization & team building activities • Coordinate office needs