Head, Human Resources at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Reference No.: 130-PEO01173
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Permanent
Department: People & Change Nigeria

Roles & Responsibilities
The role holder will be responsible for:

• Championing the articulation and development of the Human Resources (HR) strategy and ensure alignment with the organisation's overall strategy and business objectives
• Translating departmental strategies into specific operational plans and programs.
• Communicating the department’s strategic objectives, operational plans and programs to all staff ensuring mutual understanding of roles, responsibilities and accountabilities.
• Facilitating the development/update of an optimal organisation structure to support the achievement of the organisation’s goals and objectives
• Overseeing an HR function that covers major HR focus areas of career management and succession planning, training and development, staff welfare, performance management, HR administration.
• Planning and forecasting the organisation's workforce requirements.
• Overseeing the staff/candidate sourcing and selection ensuring equity and fairness and that the right calibre of staff is employed into the organisation
• Designing, implementing and monitoring appropriate employee reward strategies, policies and programs to enable the organisation attract and retain the best talent

The role holder will be responsible for:

• Facilitating the development of a change receptive and collaborative culture by acting as a change champion and agent; and ensuring that the workforce is adequately carried along when the key changes/decisions are being made
• Intervening and assisting in resolving significant/complex disciplinary cases, appeals and related HR service delivery issues.
• Ensuring the existence of a dynamic HR system, fully integrated across HR areas, to continually improve higher levels of employee productivity.
• Providing advice to management team on all HR related issues
• Recommending HR consultants to management team as required
• Continually reviewing and assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the department’s policies, procedures and processes and identify improvement opportunities
• Preparing the HR department’s annual budget and monitoring its implementation.
• Conducting performance appraisal and monitoring the performance of unit direct reports in line with agreed targets.
• Preparing and submitting monthly activity and performance reports to ED, Corporate Services
• Performing any other duties as may be assigned by the ED

Requirements

• First degree preferably in any of the humanities
• MBA or membership of a relevant professional body e.g. Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM)
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of cognate experience in reputable organization with at least three (3) years managerial experience
• Understanding of the strong interrelationship between human capital management and achievement of the strategic objectives of an organisation.
• Candidate must be amiable with high level of integrity and confidentiality and generally be of good disposition
• High level of professionalism and knowledge of contemporary HR practice
• Significant understanding of the operations of an Export Credit Agency
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including ability to organize and manage human resource to attain goals
• Willingness to work long hours where required in order to achieve the organisation’s objectives.
• General understanding of the objectives and purpose of a development finance institution