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NIKITA PILLAY

HR & COMPLIANCE

BEST-PRACTICE SPECIALIST

ikita Pillay attributes her success to a powerful cocktail Siyaya, Business Fit, and assist client companies in aligning
and positive peer pressure, and perseverance.Nikita their HR Strategies with their Business Strategies. It’s a
Nhas 18 years of Human Resource and Industrial multi-faceted role, with a variety of responsibilities from
Relations experience and knowledge, from managing payroll working with International Clients in the PEO service line,
and HR for a major fast-food company, to thereafter finding to assisting companies build their HR foundation, develop
her niche in a more diverse and challenging HR environment. policies and procedures, remuneration strategies, chairing
Committed to her career growth, she continued her studies of disciplinary hearings, performance management, to
and worked her way up to HR Manager for the company,
consulting in wage negotiations.
before joining DRG Outsourcing.
Nikita’s profile extends further on ensuring compliance in
With completion of various modules in payroll management,
terms of Labour Law and Reporting on Employment Equity
Nikita has also pursued studies in HR Management. She
and Work Skills Plans. She’s also involved in training and
completed studies in Business Law, Job Grading, and
mentoring of young emerging entrepreneurs. She is the
Pastel Accounting.She achieved international recognition
Founder of Sibanye Africa – a charity organisation which
as a Personal Development Analyst – making her 1 in
is a subsidiary to DRG – a cause very close to her heart,
approximately 6000 PDA analysts worldwide. She has
which focuses on helping under-privileged children and
recently completed a Senior Management Development
orphanages.
Programme, at NQF 7 - degree level equivalent, with
University of Stellenbosch’s highly respected Executive Nikita highlights the role that DRG Outsourcing has played
Education Division (USB-Ed). She has also recently received in her career. “Over the last 11 years DRG has continually
recognition as a Global Ambassador for the Common- challenged me and exposed me to new opportunities. This
Wealth Entrepreneurs Club. Nikita was selected as part of encouraged and motivated me to always look for new
the Top 21 KZN Women in Business, 2019 Awards, hosted opportunities. David White, DRG’s CEO, believed in
by KZN Top Business. me and supported me – and this has helped me

As head of HR - Compliance & Best-Practice at DRG to grow in confidence and inspired me to strive
Outsourcing, Nikita is part of the leadership and to become a more rounded HR professional 3
management team, for the group - DRG Outsourcing, DRG and a leader in our organisation.”