Workforce Business Partner (North Central)

Who We Are

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.

As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.

Job Title: Workforce Business Partner (North Central)

Reports to: Team Lead, Workforce Partner

Job Purpose

The Workforce Business Partner (WBP) serves as a strategic partner to business leaders, driving the alignment of people strategy with business priorities. This role exists to ensure that every people-related initiative — from performance enablement and workforce planning to leadership effectiveness — is executed with precision, empathy, and measurable impact.

Beyond traditional HR delivery, the WBP acts as a trusted advisor, shaping organizational health and fostering a culture of accountability, engagement, and inclusion. The role bridges the gap between business needs and people solutions, ensuring that talent is positioned as a key enabler of growth and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

- Partner with business leaders to translate organizational goals into actionable people plans that drive capability, performance, and retention.

- Lead workforce planning and organizational design discussions to ensure the right structure, roles, and talent are in place to meet current and future needs.

- Coach and influence leaders on talent strategy, performance management, and Independent Contractor engagement to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team culture.

- Act as a trusted advisor on IC relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent, and business-aligned resolutions in collaboration with the Workforce Relations COE.

- Analyze 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 labor laws while promoting a positive, high-performance culture.

Qualifications

- 2–4 years of progressive HR experience, including at least 2 years in a Business Partnership or advisory capacity.

- Demonstrated experience working in fast-paced, matrixed, or multinational environments.

- Strong understanding of core HR functions — performance management, people relations, organizational design, and workforce planning.

- Proven ability to use HR data and analytics to inform decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting technical or commercial business units in a fintech, banking, or tech environment.

- Demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders and leading complex change initiatives.

About You

- You’re a strategic thinker who sees the big picture but executes with precision.

- You build trust quickly and communicate with empathy, clarity, and confidence.

- You thrive in ambiguity and can balance multiple stakeholders with ease.

- You’re data-driven — you make decisions grounded in insight, not intuition.

- You’re committed to continuous improvement, always seeking better ways to drive business impact through people.

What Success Looks Like

- You have established yourself as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, influencing key people and organizational decisions.

- Business units under your support demonstrate improved engagement, retention, and performance outcomes.

- You’ve delivered a measurable improvement in workforce planning accuracy and performance management effectiveness.

- Leaders actively seek your input on strategic and people-related matters, not just HR processes.

- You’ve successfully embedded at least one COE-led initiative (e.g., new policy, performance framework, or workforce process) within your business unit with strong adoption and feedback.

Why join us

- Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and impactful career growth opportunities.

- Fully remote/flexible work culture backed by continuous support for your learning and professional development.