Senior People Business Partner

Weaver FinTech Group is a leading digital financial services ecosystem connecting consumers to smarter, more flexible ways to pay, borrow, and protect what matters most. Our brands — Pay Just Now and FinChoice — empower millions of South Africans through innovative Payments, Lending, and Insurance solutions.

We're a data-first organisation built on collaboration, innovation, and purpose: to make digital finance simpler, more inclusive, and more human.

If you’re looking for a place where you will have a positive impact on lives, learn more about and contribute to the Fintech industry, and be involved in multiple products, projects, and technologies, then look no further than FinChoice.

Your leader:       Weaver People Executive

The team:          The People team forms an integral part of the Weaver business, responsible for the people strategy. Our aim is to attract and retain top talent, that is nurtured in an inclusive, empathetic culture that rewards and recognizes high performance whilst promoting well-being to ensure sustainability for our people and the business.

Location:            Wynberg, Cape Town

The ideal candidate for this role will be responsible for providing specialist knowledge, skill and competence and partnering with key stakeholders to attract, develop, engage and retain talent. The ideal candidate will work closely with the Head of People to conceptualise, manage and implement strategic projects based on local and global best-practice, adapted to meet business requirements to ensure high performance. The candidate will utilise analytics and reports for decision making for the business unit heads.

More about the role:

• Stay abreast of industry trends and proactively contribute towards the development and implementation of the People strategy
• Conduct internal and external trend analysis and provide the business with talent insights and recommendations
• Engage with business to obtain business insights to ensure alignment of People initiatives and plans to support business needs
• Partner with stakeholders to empower them with relevant tools and resources that allow them to effectively lead and inspire their teams, as well as manage performance
• Communicate and share relevant People reports/dashboards with insights to middle and snr management during departmental management meetings
• Continuously improve people processes (through innovation and/or automation) to enhance the employee experience
• Drive recruitment needs of the business by partnering with the Talent Acquisition Specialist to bring in the best talent
• Implement the performance excellence process, ensuring compliance across the business units and supporting managers where where poor performance arises
• Collaborate with relevant colleagues to execute People initiatives and projects
• Manage learning initiatives and facilitate specific interventions where required
• Provision of advice on discipline and grievance issues and being present at disciplinary enquires and CCMA cases as the People representative where appropriate.
• Support the business in driving culture initiatives
• Engage with business units on organisation effectiveness challenges impacting on culture and implement initiatives to address those challenges
• Ensure a successful employee experience from onboarding to offboarding
• Support business in their remuneration expenditure and ensuring salaries are benchmarked and aligned to budgets
• Drive employee wellness through the Company wellness programmes and initiatives and support individual departmental needs

More about you:

Experience & Skills

• A bachelor’s degree in organizational psychology or related
• 4 to 5 years senior HR generalist experience
• Good computer literacy skills with a proficiency in MS Office
• Experience in stakeholder management at senior management level
• Knowledge of and experience with various People related systems
• Strong employee relations experience and exposure
  

Attributes & Behaviors

• Excellent interpersonal communication (verbal & written), influence, assertiveness and judgment skills
• Strong planning, organizing and coordinating skills
• Performance-driven and results-orientated with a relentless drive to succeed
• The ability to prioritise and multi-task within a fast-paced and pressurised environment
• Exceptional attention to detail with a thorough approach to work
• A strong can-do attitude and an energetic positive approach
• A solid work ethic and a passion for recruitment
• Good judgement and decision making informed by critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Business/Commercial Acumen
• Understand stakeholder needs and expectations in order to generate creative solutions

More about us:

Reciprocity and trust are the foundation of how we work. We believe that each of us show up everyday to do our best work and help one another and our customers. Strong, meaningful relationships underpin our culture and success, and we value authenticity and transparency. We value equity and strove to be fair and balanced. We celebrate our differences and understand that they contribute positively to the team.

• We offer a flexible working arrangement and hybrid working
• We support your professional development through coaching, training and bursaries
• We offer employee wellness and support through our ChoiceCare employee assistance programme
• We offer preferential rates for medical cover and preferred banks
• We love celebrating your milestones with you