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Principal, People Transformation & Change
Moniepoint
Posted 3 months agoRemote, Nigeria
Location
Remote, Nigeria
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Human Resources
Job Description
Who we are
Moniepoint
Group is the fastest growing
Fintech in
Africa, as just ranked by
Financial
Times in 2024.
Our mission is to drive financial inclusion and bring happiness to hundreds of millions of small businesses and individuals in
Africa, by building
Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem, empowering businesses and their customers with seamless payment, banking, credit, and management tools.
We are
Nigeria’s biggest merchant acquirer, and one of the biggest digital banks, with over 15 million customers, and 3,500+ team members.
We are on an exciting journey of growth, and we are now looking for a passionate, experienced people leader to build and drive our global talent and performance management strategy across the entire company.
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.
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.
Engineered Quality: Implement governance frameworks that stop data silos from re-emerging, ensuring our systems speak to each other effortlessly.
Transformation Track Record: You’ve successfully led large-scale HR transformations across multiple regions (ideally Nigeria and the UK)
Influencing Power: You can guide C-suite stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams with diplomacy and authority, even without direct reporting lines.
You Speak Human and Data: You can translate a complex technical API integration into a simple, value-driven story for the CPO.
What Success Looks Like Milestone Mastery: Completing the Q1-Q4 Roadmap with minimal variance and no oper
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Requirements
- 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.
- Process Mastery: You’re an expert in process redesign.
- If you have a Six Sigma or Lean certification, that’s a plus.
- 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’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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Reporting & ROI: Define what success looks like through clear KPIs and provide regular progress updates to the CPO.
- 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.
- Champion Change: Create the communications, training, and "nudges" that help our managers and employees adopt new, smarter ways of working.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Opportunity to work at Africa's fastest-growing fintech
- Remote work flexibility
How to Apply
Apply via Moniepoint's careers portal.
