People Business Partner

Moniepoint

Who we are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.  As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. JOB PURPOSE The Lead, People Business Partnership acts as a strategic connector between enterprise people strategy and business execution. This role partners with senior business leaders to design and implement people initiatives that strengthen performance, engagement, and organizational capability. Working closely with COEs and the broader People leadership team, the Lead ensures that workforce plans, leadership effectiveness, and change programs are delivered with consistency, insight, and measurable business impact. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Partner with business leaders to operationalize people plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and talent priorities. * Manage day-to-day employee lifecycle matters in partnership with People Operations and Employee Relations. * Coach line managers on performance management, feedback, and team engagement. * Analyze people metrics (attrition, engagement, performance) to identify local trends and propose solutions. * Support organizational design, workforce planning, and change initiatives. * Collaborate with COEs (Talent Management, Total Rewards, Learning, ER) to deliver enterprise programs into business units. * Act as a culture champion, driving inclusion and accountability through daily interactions. QUALIFICATIONS * 5–7 years HR experience, including 3+ years in HRBP or advisory role. * Proven capability managing multiple business units or teams. * Sound understanding of HR processes and labor regulations. * Analytical mindset with ability to interpret data trends. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience in fintech, banking, or digital environments. * Exposure to organization-wide HR transformation or scaling initiatives. About You * You’re a strategic operator who balances business acumen with people insight. * You see patterns in data, behaviors, and structure — and use them to shape decisions that build capability and performance at scale. * You’re confident in influencing senior leaders, framing complex people issues in business terms, and driving clarity where ambiguity exists. * You’re a coach and connector — developing PBPs to think critically, partner strategically, and deliver with empathy and precision. * You collaborate fluidly across COEs, ensuring that enterprise initiatives translate into meaningful impact on the ground. * You’re known for your sound judgment, calm under pressure, and ability to hold leaders accountable while strengthening trust. * Above all, you elevate the people function — turning strategy into measurable outcomes that advance both culture and commercial success. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE  * You are recognized as a strategic partner on the senior leadership team for your assigned business units, shaping the long-term organizational and talent strategy. * You have designed and implemented business unit-specific people strategies that demonstrably contribute to achieving core business objectives (e.g., market expansion, product innovation, operational efficiency). * Your influence extends to shaping company-wide HR policy and program design, providing crucial business context and feedback to Centers of Excellence (COEs). * You have successfully led the end-to-end deployment of multiple COE-led strategic initiatives across your business units, ensuring high-quality execution, sustained adoption, and demonstrable positive impact on key people metrics. * You have a high-performing People Business Partner (PBP) team or support staff that you mentor, develop, and delegate effectively to, ensuring consistent, high-quality HR support for the business. * Your proactive people risk mitigation and strategic workforce planning result in a highly stable, engaged, and optimally structured talent base that is ahead of the curve in meeting future business needs.

Moniepoint

Who we are   Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.  As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. Job Purpose As the Principal of People Transformation & Change, you’re the architect of our People strategy execution. You won't just manage projects; you’ll integrate the entire employee lifecycle—Recruitment, Operations, Business Partnering, and Development—into one seamless flow. Your goal is to ensure our People Team scales as fast as our business, turning "scrappy" startup processes into a systematized global engine that supports our 3,000+ employees. Key Responsibilities * Drive the Roadmap: Take end-to-end ownership of the People Transformation Roadmap, ensuring we hit every milestone from Q1 to Q4 on time and with impact. * Architect the Future: Facilitate workshops to map our current "As-Is" processes, identify bottlenecks, and design "To-Be" workflows that prioritize automation and data integrity. * Unblock Dependencies: Lead weekly transformation meetings with Talent Acquisition, PBP, and Ops Leads to keep everyone aligned and moving forward. * Champion Change: Create the communications, training, and "nudges" that help our managers and employees adopt new, smarter ways of working. * Engineered Quality: Implement governance frameworks that stop data silos from re-emerging, ensuring our systems speak to each other effortlessly. * Reporting & ROI: Define what success looks like through clear KPIs and provide regular progress updates to the CPO. Qualifications * The Experience: 5-7 years in Management Consulting, People Operations, or Business Transformation. You’ve lived through the "chaos phase" of a high-growth fintech or global tech company. * Transformation Track Record: You’ve successfully led large-scale HR transformations across multiple regions (ideally Nigeria and the UK). * Process Mastery: You’re an expert in process redesign. If you have a Six Sigma or Lean certification, that’s a plus. * Influencing Power: You can guide C-suite stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams with diplomacy and authority, even without direct reporting lines. About You * You’re a Silo-Cracker: You have a natural allergy to manual workarounds. You see where data gets stuck and have the grit to fix it. * You Speak Human and Data: You can translate a complex technical API integration into a simple, value-driven story for the CPO. * You’re a Change Catalyst: You know that 80% of transformation is psychological. You’re great at managing resistance and celebrating small wins to keep the team empowered. * You Thrive in the Storm: Messy data and legacy processes don't intimidate you—they energize you. You’re motivated by bringing order to complexity. What Success Looks Like * Milestone Mastery: Completing the Q1-Q4 Roadmap with minimal variance and no operational downtime. * High Adoption: Seeing a 90% adoption rate of new tools and processes within 60 days of launch. * System Synergy: Achieving a state where data flows from Recruitment to Payroll without manual intervention. What to expect in the hiring process * A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters. * A 60 minute interview with the hiring manager, our Head of People Operations. * An interview with our Chief People Officer * An interview with our Group COO Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.

Moniepoint

Who we are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.  As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. JOB PURPOSE The Payroll Specialist provides essential, high-precision support in delivering timely and accurate payroll across Moniepoint’s global markets. you will ensure that our international workforce is paid accurately and on time. You are the guardian of payroll data integrity, a key point of contact for employee queries, and a champion of compliant financial reporting. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Global Payroll Execution & Validation * End-to-End Processing: Prepare, validate, and record payroll inputs across all active platforms in India and UK, ensuring local nuances and regional labor laws are respected. * Accuracy & Reconciliation: Execute rigorous monthly cycles, including variance reviews, accuracy checks, and reconciliation of payroll feeders to the general ledger. * HRIS Synchronization: Audit and validate that employee lifecycle changes (hires, terminations, promotions) are mirrored accurately between HRIS and payroll systems. Partner with business leaders to operationalize people plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and talent priorities * Compliance, SOX & Statutory Oversight * SOX Compliance & Controls: Maintain and adhere to SOX-compliant workflows, ensuring all payroll activities follow established internal controls, approval hierarchies, and strict audit trails. * Statutory Submissions: Support the timely filing of PAYE, pensions, taxes, and other local statutory requirements across all operating jurisdictions. * Audit Readiness: Assist in producing detailed schedules and documentation for internal and external audits, ensuring a "zero-findings" environment. * Stakeholder Management & Optimization * Employee Experience: Respond to payroll-related inquiries with professional clarity, maintaining high satisfaction through timely and empathetic communication. * Third-Party Management: Coordinate with payroll providers and third-party vendors to ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met. * Process Improvement: Troubleshoot data discrepancies and collaborate with HRIS and Finance teams to automate manual tasks and maintain updated process documentation (SOPs). QUALIFICATIONS * Experience: 4 or more years of dedicated payroll or HR operations experience in a professional environment. * Systems Fluency: Hands-on familiarity with global payroll platforms such as Payfit, Gusto, Monnify, Razorpay, or similar cloud-based tools. * Analytical Prowess: Strong attention to detail and advanced confidence working with spreadsheets, complex data sets, and financial numbers. * Analytical mindset with ability to interpret data trends. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * International Scope: Prior experience supporting multi-entity and multi-currency payroll environments. * Regional Expertise: A basic understanding of payroll requirements across India, UK. * Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with maintaining internal controls (SOX) within a payroll operations context. About You * Precise & Dependable: You are organized by nature and take deep pride in "getting it right the first time." * Effective Communicator: You translate complex payroll data into clear, helpful support for colleagues and employees alike. * Growth-Oriented: You are eager to deepen your technical payroll expertise across multiple platforms and stay ahead of global compliance trends. * Trustworthy: You handle sensitive data with the highest level of confidentiality and professional integrity. What to expect in the hiring process * A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters. * A 60 minute interview with the hiring manager, Senior Manager, Lead Global Payroll Operations and Reporting. * An interview with our Head of People Operations Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.