People Business Partner at Moniepoint Incorporated – Lagos

Moniepoint Incorporated is recruiting a People Business Partner in Lagos. The role partners with business leaders to align people strategy with business priorities and support organisational health, accountability, engagement and inclusion.

Job purpose

The People Business Partner (PBP) serves as a strategic partner to business leaders, ensuring that people initiatives—from performance enablement and workforce planning to leadership effectiveness—are executed with precision, empathy and measurable impact. The role advises on organisational health and connects business needs with people solutions, positioning talent as an enabler of growth and innovation.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to translate organisational goals into actionable people plans that drive capability, performance and retention.
• Lead workforce planning and organisational design discussions to ensure the right structures, roles and talent are in place for current and future needs.
• Coach and influence leaders on talent strategy, performance management and employee engagement to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team culture.
• Advise on employee-relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent and business-aligned resolutions in collaboration with the Employee Relations Centre of Excellence.
• Partner with Talent Management and Total Rewards teams to implement talent programmes, learning initiatives and reward structures that support performance and growth.
• Analyse people data and insights to identify trends, risks and opportunities, presenting data-driven recommendations to business leaders.
• Champion change management and communication strategies that support transformation, adoption and continuous improvement within business units.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and local labour laws while promoting a positive, high-performance culture.

What success looks like

• Establish trusted-adviser relationships with senior business leaders and influence important people and organisational decisions.
• Support business units in improving engagement, retention and performance outcomes.
• Deliver measurable improvements in workforce-planning accuracy and performance-management effectiveness.
• Become a sought-after adviser on strategic and people-related matters, beyond routine HR processes.
• Successfully embed at least one Centre of Excellence-led initiative, such as a new policy, performance framework or employee-relations process, with strong adoption and feedback.

Qualifications and experience

• Two to four years of progressive HR experience, including at least two years in a business-partnering or advisory capacity.
• Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed or multinational environments.
• Strong understanding of performance management, employee relations, organisational design and workforce planning.
• Ability to use HR data and analytics to inform decision-making.

Preferred qualifications and experience

• Experience supporting technical or commercial business units in a fintech, banking or technology environment.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders and leading complex change initiatives.

About you

• A strategic thinker who sees the bigger picture and executes with precision.
• Builds trust quickly and communicates with empathy, clarity and confidence.
• Thrives in ambiguity and can balance multiple stakeholders.
• Makes data-driven decisions grounded in insight.
• Is committed to continuous improvement and driving business impact through people.