Kerry De Mendonca

• Combining my passion and skill in tech and recruiting:
• Build Software
• Optimize recruiting software
• Provide dev teams to help fulfill your project requirements

As the Functional Lead/Architect, I partner with global enterprise organisations and senior stakeholders—including Heads of HRIT, Global Functional Directors, and Global Process Owners—to align Workday solutions with strategic business objectives.

Leveraging deep expertise in recruiting operations and global HR technology, I lead complex transformation initiatives, driving process standardisation, automation, and scalable solutions across multinational environments.

Key project experience;

• Functionally led a large-scale global transformation program for a multinational enterprise.
• Led the consolidation of two global recruiting processes across 100+ countries into a single unified model.
• Delivered Manager Self-Service capabilities across 11 countries, improving operational efficiency and adoption.
• Implemented integrated solutions with external services including assessment platforms and background screening providers.
• Designed and deployed employee referral programs to enhance talent acquisition pipelines.
• Evaluated emerging AI and Agentic technologies to identify opportunities for HR process innovation.

Responsibilities across the full project lifecycle (which form the day-to-day activities of my role, dependent on the stage of the project);

• Strategic consulting and requirements discovery, soliciting detailed requirements from the client, with an understanding of their operating model analysis and key strategic objectives
• Functional solution design and architecture - I partner with the client to design a technical solution that enables their operational objectives; whether this is to increase efficiency through automation or enhance the User's experience etc.
• System configuration - I am responsible for building and delivering the designed solution
• Testing strategy and execution - I am responsible for building complex unit and UAT test scripts and delivering global UAT sessions. I am also responsible for client play back sessions to ensure alignment of the technical solution with the design
• Project and delivery management - I have fulfilled the role of Project Manager on smaller projects, ensuring the agreed timelines and milestones are met on time and within budget
• Change management and communications - Where agreed I have helped facilitate and drive change management activities and related stakeholder communications, ahead of key project milestones
• End-user training and enablement - Where agreed I have facilitated training support ahead of go-live activities
• Implementation and go-live leadership - I have been accountable for go-live implementations of very large, complex solutions that require detailed implementation plans considering dependencies, data migration impacts, user down time considerations, etc.
• Post-implementation support and optimisation - I have been responsible for lengthy PGLS cycles, accountable for ensuring post go live stabilisation and adoption of the newly deployed solution. This would involve regular market check in's, defect management / tracking and resolution and ongoing solution upskill/training on the newly implemented solution
• Knowledge transfer and operational handover - I was responsible for a well-documented and governed hand over process to the central BAU teams to ensure a successful transfer of knowledge of the design, configuration implementation, considerations, risks and dependencies.

I am the Talent Acquisition Lead of a complex, fast paced, high pressured tech consulting company who offer digital transformation solutions, to clients, in South Africa and internationally.

I drive multiple initiatives from understanding how to accurately predict high quality hires, talent mapping and talent market mapping to understand multiple verticals that drive talent to your brand while delivering insights that address talent acquisition solutions in line with statutory requirements and business strategic objectives. Scalable, relevant solutions. I am a seasoned sourcer, recruiter, master of the hunt and will find you the rarest gem among the rough. I have full 360 recruitment experience, from junior scarce skills to senior management.

I am in tune with the global recruiting community employing global best practice from a governance, legal, systems, process, service and R&D perspective.

I see Talent Acquisition as a great platform to identify multiple business opportunities and I thoroughly enjoy adding value as a true business partner.

I have coached and trained senior recruiters, helping them derive true value from a data driven recruiting approach, their technology resources and overall best practice.

I was the Recruitment Functional Lead on the project team responsible for the implementation of Workday into the Altron Group, I was involved in:

• Business process design, of the whole recruiting module, in line with group policy and best practice aligning 9 Operating Company processes to a singular one Altron process, while incorporating multiple digitized solutions saving recruiters time and money within a transactional process while incorporating and demonstrating our technology as a tech company.
• Business process testing
• Configuration
• Support
• Training
• Vendor negotiations for group wide, 3rd party solutions e.g. background screening solutions
• Integrations

• With a keen interest to recruit in IT, an opportunity presented itself to do so at FNB and I jumped at it. I head up a niche stream of recruitment for Java talent at FNB to tackle some of the issues around recruitment and attrition in this critical skills space.
• I drew attention to environmental issues, brand perception, attraction methods and much more.

• In this role I provided an end to end (360) recruitment service for multiple business streams within different company segments across quant, project, finance, product, sales and wealth disciplines. These included but were not limited to roles within:
• Financial Advisory
• Central Finance
• Premium and Business Core Banking
• International
• Chief Risk Office

• Resourcing specialist for Product Control Group and CIB Finance.

• Source, network and connect with top talent in the banking industry :
• - Headhunter
• - Executive Research
• - Mid management to executive placements
• - Full recruitment service

• The success of your business is defined by your workforce. Truly understanding this very essential yet complex equation has enabled me the success of many businesses.