JOB PURPOSE

This role manages the HR relationship with the strategic business units and challenge, support and adds value to the business in pursuit of their objectives and overall Bank strategy. Additionally there will be the creation of HR plans that drive optimal business performance in terms of Talent Management, Acquisition and Retention, Organizational Design, Staff Resourcing, Performance Management and Leadership Capability and ensuring that these are in line with HR polices and standards.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

•   Influence and enable the effective diagnosis of business issues/strategy and goals, turning these into People Plans
•   Take a proactive role in the development of HR Priorities and lead the implementation of these and other major change as required within business areas, turning them into real action plans.
•   Provide action leadership in conjunction with stakeholders on HR issues such as reward, employment relations, talent, performance, organization development/change, culture, leadership and learning and development.
•   Challenge, provoke and coach business leaders on how to engage employees and address resulting people issues and build people capabilities effectively. To drive the raising of the performance bar and build a strong and rigorous development culture.
•   Ensure that key HR operational processes are delivered successfully to the business, including ensuring that transactional HR processes delivered by the HR business partner within an acceptable framework
•   Provide leadership to cyclical annual processes including : performance development and annual pay process and balance score card
•   Provide leadership to the recruitment process within client group and have personal involvement in senior hires, including reward package development.

Qualification Required & Experience

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE

•   Degree educated
•   Technical and professional HR knowledge, including sound general knowledge of employment law
•   Experience of leading a team
•   Experience of deployment and location strategy
•   Experience of analyzing and diagnosing business/ people issues
•   Experience gained within banking / financial services environment;
•   Experience of working with leadership / senior teams, ability to establish formal and informal  networks and influence change;

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

•   Mature professional
•   Strong communication, negotiation and persuasion skills
•   Achievement oriented, embracing and achieving challenging targets
•   Self motivated and energetic.
•   Consistent, honest and trust worthy – demonstrating integrity
•   Ability to have difficult conversations with confidence
•   People management skills, including team building, team motivation, goal planning and optimizing team skills to deliver results.
•   Possession of strong leadership capabilities and be able to lead and motivate a team
•   Open minded, a progressive thinker, a listener and an individual who is comfortable with participation from fellow employee
•   Superior people management skills
•   Conflict resolution

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

•   Good communication/interpersonal skills
•   High level skills of using Microsoft Office packages
•   Good verbal and written skills
•   Excellent organizational skills and ability to multi-task
•   Excellent customer service skills
•   Good research and analytical skills

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested candidates must submit their CVs to:-

jobs@utbankghana.com

Closing Date: 11 January, 2014