People Associate providing HR support across the full employee lifecycle for the Africa team at Sistema.bio in Nairobi. Engaging with employees and managing HR documentation in a hybrid role.
About the role
- Interim head of people overseeing the people function for Seccl, a fintech. This role involves leading teams and driving cultural initiatives during a pivotal growth phase.
Responsibilities
- Partnering with the CEO and exec team to ensure people strategy is fully aligned to business goals and growth plans
- Holding senior leaders to account for embedding our culture and role-modelling our operating principles
- Leading organisational readiness for Enhanced SMCR, strengthening governance, accountability frameworks and regulatory learning
- Shaping organisational design and workforce plans to ensure we have the right skills, structure and succession in place
- Preparing the business for European expansion, including hiring, policy localisation and operational setup
- Driving the evolution of our hybrid and location strategy, including office moves, future footprint planning and health & safety oversight
- Supporting responsible AI adoption across the business, ensuring our approach enhances productivity and innovation while maintaining fairness, compliance and strong ways of working
- Overseeing performance and engagement frameworks, ensuring insight from feedback and survey data translates into clear action
- Acting as an escalation point for complex people relations and regulatory matters, ensuring fair, consistent and compliant outcomes
- Leading and enabling the People team, setting priorities, running quarterly planning and ensuring operational excellence across the full people lifecycle
- Partnering with Finance on reward strategy, salary reviews, executive incentives and long-term workforce cost planning
Requirements
- You’ve led a people function in a scaling, commercially driven and regulated environment
- You have direct experience of SMCR and ideally Enhanced firm governance requirements
- You’re confident operating at exec and Board level, able to influence and hold senior leaders to account
- You bring strong organisational design and workforce planning capability
- You have deep knowledge of UK employment law and regulatory people risk (European experience desirable)
- You balance strategic clarity with operational pragmatism and are comfortable rolling up your sleeves
- You’re calm in ambiguity and energised by growth, change and evolving complexity
- You lead through others, building trust quickly while combining empathy with accountability
Benefits
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave
- Two volunteering days per year
- 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance
- Private medical insurance with AXA Health
- Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
- Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace
- Financial wellbeing initiatives including access to will writing offering via Octopus Legacy and Seccl invest (our own platform for you to manage your investments)
- Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts.
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