The Role
The Head of Human Resources oversees HR strategies, operations, and initiatives, enhancing staff relations and aligning HR practices with business goals.
Summary Generated by Built In
Our client, a company in the financial industry sector, is seeking to hire a Head, Human Resources who will play a vital role in overall administration, coordination and strategic
evaluation of the human resources department for the entire group. He/she will be responsible for all Human
Resources related solutions that influence business decisions. The Head, HR will also improve HR initiatives,
enhancing staff morale and relations between staff and management, contribute to attaining business goals,
promote good HR practices and attract talented recruits to meet the organization’s needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Develops organization strategies by identifying and researching human resources issues.
- Implements human resources strategies by establishing department accountabilities, including talent
acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, training and
development, records management, safety and health, succession planning, employee relations and retention,
and labor relations.
- Manages human resources operations by overseeing recruitment, selection, orientation, training, coaching,
counseling, and disciplining of staff.
- Planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing staff job contributions, maintaining compensation, determining production, productivity.
- Develops human resources operations budgets and financial strategies by estimating, forecasting, and
anticipating requirements.
- Accomplishes special project results by identifying and clarifying issues and priorities.
- Supports management by providing human resources advice, counsel, and decisions.
- Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in conferences and educational opportunities.
- Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different
requests, exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
- Lead and support the development and implementation of HR policy across all units of the department, and
areas of the organization including improving performance, maximizing attendance and providing effective
management of change and development.
- Direct and work with the HR team to develop, co-ordinate, implement and audit all HR activity within the
department and across the organization.
- Assists executive management in the annual review, preparation and administration of group’s salary
productivity target.
- Participates on committees and special projects and seeks additional responsibilities.
- Maintain effective employee relations including participation, consultation and negotiation with representative
bodies and ensure maintenance of productive working relationships with all colleagues.
- Ensure effective implementation of the disciplinary and grievance procedures for all employee groups
Requirements
- 7 years post-graduation experience, with cognitive experience in full-cycle HR experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management or any other related field. 4 additional years of relevant
experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office, more importantly, Excel with an ability to analyze data.
- Recognized professional qualification (e.g. CIPD, CIPM, PHRi, SPHRi)
Benefits
Job Type: Full-time
Competitive Salary: ₦800,000- 1,000,000.00 (Gross)
Skills Required
- 7 years post-graduation experience in full-cycle HR
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management or related field
- Professional qualification (e.g. CIPD, CIPM, PHRi, SPHRi)
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel
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The Company
What We Do
StarGuide HR Consulting Limited is a Lagos-based human resources consultancy and outsourcing firm providing services such as HR business partnering, recruitment, payroll, training, and HR software solutions.
