Senior Human Resources Officer at ReelFruit

Location: Yaba, Lagos

Job Description

• The company is seeking an experienced Senior Human Resources Executive, based in Lagos, Nigeria to join the company in this exciting phase of its growth to build the first of its kind fruit processing company in Nigeria.

Job Summary

• The ideal candidate would be responsible for the execution of key human resource administrative and strategic functions such as Compensation and Benefits management, Talent Acquisition, HR Reporting/Records Management, Employee Engagement, etc.

Duties and Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition:

• Co-ordinate the posting of job ads on recruitment portals, shortlisting, conducting assessment tests and interviews for candidates.
• Prepare and communicate offer letters to successful candidates.
• Ensure email creation and procurement of work tools/Identity cards for new hires.
• Conduct staff on-boarding.
• Contact applicants’ references and conducting background checks on new staff.
• Confirmation of new hires upon successful completion of probation
• Maintain employee/operative information on the database by inputting and updating employment and status change-data - online & offline.

HR Administration and Employee Relations:

• Ensure all correspondence with employees are placed in their respective personnel files.
• Update all HR information with regards to Employee lists, loans, salary advance and leave request etc. on the database
• Maintains employee confidence and protects operations by keeping human resource information confidential.
• Submit periodic reports.
• Administer and manage employee benefit packages (HMO, Pension, etc).
• Prepare, manage and execute approved HR policies, procedure, strategy and processes
• Administer employee engagement activities.
• Assist in managing employee welfare.

Performance Management:

• Conduct periodic performance evaluation/appraisals.
• Identify training needs of staff as indicated the performance evaluation forms.
• Prepare and communicate performance improvement plans.
• Prepare performance evaluation reports

Compensation & Benefit Management:

• Administration of payroll - Compute staff salaries, overtime, loans, salary advance, arrears/bonus, penalties and other deductions.
•  Follow up on all employee benefits, i.e. pension contribution, group life insurance, health, etc.
• Processing all staff allowances promptly upon approval by Head HR

Disciplinary & Consequence Management:

• Conduct necessary investigations where disciplinary issues have been flagged against an erring staff.
• Attend disciplinary panels and take reports/minutes of such meetings.
• Draft and issue queries, warning letters, suspension letters and termination letters, in applicable cases

Educational Qualifications / Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in any related field.
• 3 - 5 years experience as a Human Resource Generalist.
• Excellent oral, written and listening communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills, proactivity, creativity and attention to details.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
• General knowledge of employment laws and practices.
• People oriented and results driven.
• Excellent Google suit & Microsoft skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• HR Certification (SHRM, HRCI, CIPM etc.).