People Lead – Africa

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👥 People Operations

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LemFi

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

💰 $53M Series B - LemFi on 2025-01

Consulting • Insurance • Logistics

LemFi is building the go-to financial app for the Global South, enabling customers to spend, save, send, and grow their wealth all in one place. The app addresses the barriers to fair and affordable financial services faced by many when moving countries, offering features like international transfers, multi-currency accounts, savings, and financial tools. With over 2 million customers globally, LemFi empowers people to support their families, build financial stability, and stay connected from anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end people agenda across African markets, including Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Africa • Partner with senior local leaders on team dynamics, performance and organisational design • Own complex or escalated employee relations cases across the region • Provide hands-on support to the Nigeria People Advisor on their caseload • Manage and coach the People Advisor, Nigeria • Own South African statutory and employment law compliance • Oversee compliance across other African markets, working with local expertise where needed • Run regional people operations, including onboarding, offboarding, data accuracy and recurring HR processes • Consolidate people data across Africa and provide the VP People with insights into retention, engagement and overall organisational health • Localise and roll out global people initiatives across African markets • Support the Senior People Ops Manager on global people operations projects • Coach and upskill people managers across the region on LemFi’s management standards

🎯 Requirements

• 6–9 years’ experience as an HR generalist, with strong exposure to African markets (Nigeria is a big plus) • Proven experience managing complex employee relations cases end to end • Experience managing or mentoring a direct report • Strong working knowledge of South African labour law, including the BCEA, LRA and Employment Equity Act, and statutory requirements • Experience working within a global or distributed business • Proficiency with modern HRIS platforms; experience with Rippling is a plus • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across cultures and seniority levels • Comfortable moving between local and international stakeholders • Ability to act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and challenge the status quo • Ability to take full responsibility for the Africa people agenda