I never asked during interview in my 10 yrs career : "sir, whom I will be reporting to".
I had a similar role in HR where I used to administratively report to Finance and Accounts, and functionally to HR at Head Office. These are the usual things when it happens this way.
Finance & Accounts works on the fixed guidelines and approvals, certification from admin or HR for everything, which is 100% correct. They would look forward for all these documents for any kind of payments internal (staff, or a different department) or external (vendors etc). No deviation from their routine work is tolerable to them; things like expenses on staff welfare would make their eyebrows rise.
But when it comes to internal payments or any kind of benefits to Finance and Accounts department they don’t require the approval or certification from HR. after all HR is reporting to them.
One thing every one must acknowledge that 90 % of people in finance and accounts have the background of a little administration work, and payroll. Most of them start their career from a small organization where in admin, HR and Accounts are merged under one department. Later they join big organizations but still think functioning of HR is same as in their earlier organization where the volume of staff was very less.
Every one has limitations and eligibility defined by the policy, but finance and accounts can fly (flight) or hire (vehicle) beyond eligibility. Audit…? They have approvals from Finance Head and they cannot explain the emergency which made them to….. oh ! and the traveling reimbursement doesn’t require the certification of HR they can see the Policy and certify by themselves.
Since, PF, PT ,Tax, is calculated / intimated by Finance and Accounts. They feel the payroll / Payslip of 100+ staff done on SAP by an HR is just a small effortless thing. They would call it a routine copy paste business.
Time and money spent on Recruitment and job portals is waste of time you have better options like outsourcing.
Induction is not that necessary since new recruits will get acquainted with the time but don’t forget to take the contact address and phone numbers………( would any HR recruit people without these details?) did we asked for induction with bankers or vendors but we are managing or not?
Tax plans? Why ? why it has to be explained to all the staff? People should know their Tax liabilities they should come to us (Finance and accounts) for guidelines, If no we would advise HR to deduct.
End of the year…………………HR is flooded with complaints.
Why ? you should be smart enough to handle these type of things, that’s hat we have an HR otherwise we would have managed it on our own.
At last we (HR) gathered and made a representation to the Sr. HR in Head Office now we are functionally and administratively reporing to HR at HO Things have changed a lot, every little problems solved since we go by policy of course with a human touch.
Now I am not surprised when a candidate asks me during interview Sir, to whom I will be reporting to? Rather I would appreciate he knows more than I do.