Elena Zhelyazkova

Responsible for the creation and execution of the Learning and Development Strategy of the UniCredit legal entities in Bulgaria in line with the Group and CE&EE one, including the proper allocation of the training budget.

Responsible for the creation and execution of the Talant management strategy for Digital and its cascading to all geographies, where Digital was represented.

Responsible for the cascading of the HR strategy and ensuring the proper adoption of the HR processes in all geographies, where Group Operations was represented, cooperating with the local HR representatives. Acting as a strategic partner and first point of contact to the respective Business leader.

• Leading and/or active participation in HR projects and initiatives, which aim at ensuring the proper execution of the HR COO strategy. Involvement in variety of activties within the filed of L&D, Employer Branding, DE&I.

• Assures strategic partnership between the HR Department and two of the Bank’s subsidiaries - UniCredit Consumer Financing (UCFin) and UniCredit Factoring by aligning the implementation of the HR strategy and policies with the business goals and the UniCredit Group Mission
• Supports the subsidiaries’ representatives in making day-to-day business decisions on recruitment, training, remuneration, development and employee relations issues
• Contributes to the elaboration of the headcount budget and to the regular headcount monitoring
• Provides consultancy and advice to managers in various HR areas: on succession planning, career development initiatives and all compensation related activities
• Facilitates and advises the managers on the annual performance evaluation and contributes to KPIs setting.

• Member of the CEE HR Compensation, Benefits & Mobility Team with the initiative CEE has No boundaries
• Supporting the C&B Team during the 2016 IS Compensation cycle
• Communication with the CEE countries and the Reward & Benefits Team on compensation, benefits & mobility topics
• Coordination of the 2016 Bonus distribution process for Non Identified Staff within CEE Division
• Active involvement in the preparation of the out-of-cycle compensation packages of GIS within the CEE perimeter
• Active involvement in CEE HR initiatives, e.g
• CEE Labour Regulations Snapshot, HR Benchmarking.

• Managing and participating actively in the process of accounting of the employees’ emoluments and emoluments on civil contracts for all structures of UniCredit Bulbank and other UCG legal entities in Bulgaria
• Responsible for the whole process of employees’ remunerations calculation and for the monthly payroll reporting
• Responsible for preparing and sending information to Personal Register and Register of the sickness certificates in the National Social Security Institute.

• Preparation of regular and ad-hoc reports to UCG, BA and local management concerning FTE, HC and employee turnover
• Ensuring high quality data in SAP, used for Unit Mapping Reporting
• Member of the Digi-Simplification Roll-out team for Bulgaria
• I was responsible for Organizational Change Management & Training
• Member of the HeRMeS V implementation team
• HeRMeS is the local HR Core system
• Actively supporting the PM on all matters concerning the project and especially those concerning the HR Managerial Reporting functionality.

• Participating in implementation of short-term incentive systems; Preparing MBO reports; Supporting the communication with employees
• Member of the GJM Roll-out team for Bulgaria
• Supporting the PM during the mapping process.