Human Resource Business Partner at United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa's leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria UBA has grown to become a pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers, through close to 1000 business offices and touch points globally.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Human Resource Business Partner

Location: Enugu, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Job Objective

• To ensure an effective business partnering relationship in assigned regions, in line with the strategic objectives of the bank
• To provide strategic input on talent management issue to business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Build partnership and maintain strong relationship with business leaders to achieve revenue budget
• Ensure optimal staffing in assigned region.
• Create exceptional candidate & employee experience throughout the employee journey in the Bank.
• Drive talent retention through career development, performance management, succession planning and employee engagement.
• Ensure timely resolution of disciplinary cases, conflicts & complaint in line with the Bank’s policies.
• Ensure consistency in the implementation of HR policies, processes and practice in assigned region.
• Support the implementation of projects and associated change management activity.

Successful candidates will be a part of the core team set to:

• Build and maintain strong relationship with Business leaders.
• Drive Talent retention.

Qualification

• First Degree in any relevant Social Science Degree
• HR certification {CIPD, SHRM, CIPM etc.}
• 4 - 6 years’ work experience
• Proven experience as a HR Business Partner in a financial sector (added advantage)

Technical Skills:

• Business acumen
• Good coaching and counseling skills
• Rational, confident and mature approach to decision making
• Well-developed critical and analytical thinking
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving, negotiation and expectations management
• Effective listening skills
• Project management skills
• Strong orientation towards customer support and responsiveness
• Ability to build teams and foster team spirit
• Good knowledge of employee lifecycle model with practical/hands-on experience
• Knowledge of HR metrics & analytics
• Knowledge of HR processes & labour law

What We Expect From You:

• High Degree of professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What you should expect from us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets and so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.

Application Closing Date
7th February, 2022.