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Company BackgroundCompany Background

As one of the most respected providers of human resources

solutions in India and MENA, Populus has a proven track record of

unleashing potential in people and companies.

• Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in Mumbai (india) and is privately owned

• Populus has served the manpower hiring and structuring

challenges of some of the largest organizations in the geographies

we operate in. We are constantly looking to go beyond those

boundaries too.

• Our objectives are simple. We help drive our clients’ retention

and continued productivity. This, in turn, drives profitability. We do

this by partnering with our clients to assess their organization and

their people, source the right talent, develop their workforce and

soon will help manage their workforce.

About PopulusAbout Populus

Populus Facts:

Over 100 man-years of people sourcing

A very strong and well-trained team

Large geographical coverage

Experience across myriad domains and industries

Helped several business and SBU start-ups

Solid client relationships and market awareness

Customer base lists several global leaders

WHAT WE DOWHAT WE DO

Enabling our clients to manage the risk of offering

credit to their customers

Enabling our clients to make fast, accurate

decisions in their relationships with customers and to reduce the risk of

fraud

Enabling our clients to generate significant returns on investment and

build lasting customer

relationships

Enabling individuals to

monitor their credit report, check their credit score and protect against

identity theft

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Leadership Hiring Leadership Hiring Lateral RecruitmentLateral Recruitment

How We OperateHow We Operate

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Understand Client

Analyze Requireme

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CV Sourcing

CV Screenin

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Pre-Screenin

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Refer Shortlisted Profile to Client

Screening by

Client

Coordinate:

interviews with client

Coordinate: Pre -

Employment Checks

Coordinate: Offer Release

Appointment

Post Joining:

Follow up with

Candidates

Eliminate not

suitable ones

SPECIALIZATIONSPECIALIZATION

PORTFOLIO OF WORK PORTFOLIO OF WORK

RISK & ANALYTICS FIRMS Advised on hiring strategies and managed the entire recruitment process for a global information

services organization venturing into risk and analytics domain. The entire start-up team was identified and placed by Populus.

Set up the entire risk department for the most profitable bank in UAE. This included credit and market risk positions as well as risk technology consultants

Hired the entire team for financial analytics and insurance analytics for a credit bureau service provider

UK-BASED RE-INSURANCE COMPANY Populus identified their Practice Head for Legal Services. This assignment that was given to us

after a year of futile searches by other search firms and we managed to get them the perfect candidate within a couple of months.

Worked closely with their management team to identify and source function heads for three critical functions within their business transformation group

Providing them with research inputs as well as relevant professionals to ramp up their actuarial as well as catastrophe modeling teams.

PORTFOLIO OF WORK PORTFOLIO OF WORK

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:

We have helped our clients in recruiting IT professionals for complete software development life cycle. Requirement covered are Developer, Business Analyst, Testers, Technical Architect, Solution Architects, Project Managers, Program Managers, etc.

Have gained expertise in placing professional with experience in Business intelligence and data warehousing for ETL, ERWIN, SAS, SPSS, VBA, Macros.

Worked on Head – Data Warehouse for a Credit Bureau, one of the key positions.

.Net - developed a team of Solution Architect, Team Leads & developer as exclusive partners to them

Java - Right from developers to Head of departments have been placed at various levels with different bureau set ups.

Helped one of the bureaus to transition their project from Monaco to replicate its process here in India by sourcing QA, C++, Java, DBA, System Analyst & PM. Worked within TAT single handedly set up their team in India.

PORTFOLIO OF WORK PORTFOLIO OF WORK

Helped IT arm of Qatar’s largest conglomerate to set up their Indian IT offshore team and set up their crucial functions – Centre Head, HR head & Technology practice Head.

Successfully conducted recruitment drives in Mumbai for the mass hiring of Oracle professional.

Worked on CIO requirement for leading IT product development unit in Chennai.

Instrumental in placing Oracle consultants with experience in modules - Financial, SCM, HRMS from diverse geographies - India, Middle East and North Africa, etc for client based in Qatar.

Worked closely with the leadership team to identify key Arabic speaking Oracle resources.

PORTFOLIO OF WORK PORTFOLIO OF WORK

BIG 4 / CONSULTING FIRMS IN INDIA & UAE

Populus has successfully placed professional with varied experience in Audit (IT audit, Risk Audit, internal audit, Statutory audit)

Successfully conducted a drive to source and place more than 50 people across the financial consulting and audit divisions for a Big 4 consulting firms UAE arm

We cherish our journey of cutting through hundreds in the competition and then working towards becoming a key vendor for a Big 4 firm in India who conferred us with an award for exceptional performance

LPO / Law firm – helped US based top law firm set up its LPO base in Mumbai from scratch in 2004

PORTFOLIO OF WORK PORTFOLIO OF WORK

REPRESENTATIVE VIEW OF VARIOUS SENIOR LEVEL ASSIGNMENTS

VP – Decision Sciences to spearhead the analytics practice for US based financial services firm in India

Director – Enterprise Risk to lead the risk practice around Basel II for the Middle East & Africa region of a global consulting firm

Head – Research to lead the economic analysis group for an information research organization

CFO as part of the decision making committee for a financial technology organization in Chennai

Head of Marketing Function for UK based financial services firm in Mumbai

Centre Head and Head of Technology for an IT organization in Pune, specializing in Oracle, SAP and BI solutions

Head of Legal for a UK based reinsurance business for its function transitioned from UK

WHAT WE OFFERWHAT WE OFFER

We are more than just a recruitment agency. We are consultants and trusted advisors to our candidates and clients.

• Client Briefing- Company culture, scope of the assignment, core skills required and remuneration details. This leads to SLA signed by both

• Research and Sourcing - In-depth research, extensive data sources and market analysis is followed by a series of confidential discussions with prospective candidates

• Interview & Evaluation – The best candidates are interviewed, identifying levels of interest, qualifications and suitability

• Reports & Recommendations – Only the most suitable individuals are presented for interview. Summary reports and recommendations are submitted

• Client Interview & Assessments – We facilitate meetings between the clients & candidates. Both – client and candidates are briefed before the meeting.

• Offer Negotiations Over the years we have negotiated offers on behalf of our clients. We have proven success in offer conversions.

WHAT WE OFFERWHAT WE OFFER

Our understanding of financial market products, services, the regulatory framework and industry trends provides the foundation upon which we base our client and candidate services. By taking the time to understand market dynamics we are able to interpret the needs of both clients and candidates to ensure that there is a strong correlation in meeting the needs of both.

Our clients also benefit from our extensive candidate database, our market reach, contacts and rigorous screening process. Often we are able to assist clients with our market knowledge to fine tune position descriptions, determine compensation packages or generally to provide feedback on market conditions. As a result we enjoy considerable support from numerous long term clients who value our input and support.

WHAT WE ARE GOOD ATWHAT WE ARE GOOD AT

Areas catered to : Financial Risk Business Risk Operations Risk Actuarial CAT modeling Research Knowledge Management Analytics & statistical Modeling Legal & Compliance Strategy & Financial Consulting Investment Audit & Finance BFSI / BFSI allied services Support & Operations

WHAT WE ARE GOOD ATWHAT WE ARE GOOD AT

Technology Domain SkillsMicrosoft C#.NET, WCF, WPF, SQL Server, MS BI, SharePoint,

SQL DBA, .NET -Technical and solutions Architect

JAVA Core Java, J2EE with websphere or weblogic, UML, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, Cold fusion, JSP.

Data warehouse Informatica, Cognos, Ab Inito, SAS, ETL Extracts, Datastage, Data Modeling, Oracle, Netezza, OBIEE and Microsoft

Database Teradata, Oracle, SQL, TSQL, DB2 and Sybase

Mainframe Cobol, Synon

SAP Functional SD, MM, PM, PP, QM, HRM, FI, CO, FICO , ESS, MSS, Solution Manager, BO, BI/BW

SAP Technical (ABAP) ABAP

SAP Technical (BASIS) BASIS with Unix/Solaris Platform  or BASIS with Oracle or BASIS with NT/SQL platform with overall experience in Installation, User Creation, Authorization, Security, Back up, Recovery, Database Cleaning etc…

SAP Three Dimensional    Modules

SAP SRM, SAP BIW

Areas Covered in IT

WHAT WE ARE GOOD ATWHAT WE ARE GOOD AT

Technology Domain SkillsTester/QA Manual, Win runner, Load Runner, QTP, Automation

Testing, QA, VSTS

DBA Oracle, Sybase, Informix, SQL, DB2

Oracle Oracle Apps Technical/Functional

BI Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Hyperion Brio, Hyperion Planning, OBIEE

Technical Services and Infrastructure services domain

Citrix, Windows + VMware, Windows Server 2003/2008, Unix, Networking, TSM (Trivoli Storage Manager), Linux Admin, Solaris, Security

CRM Salesforce, Siebel, Oracle CRM

Reporting Tools Qlikview, SSIS, SSRS

EAI Tibco

Other skills JD Edward, iphone, black berry, Android, Drupal, Ruby

and rails, Murex, Documentum, temenos