Head: Human Resources -CSD & TS at Nedbank

Job Purpose

To lead the Human Resources strategy and manage the HR team effectively in order to deliver on HR strategic plans that enable business strategic objectives; thereby ensuring sustainable human capital and business transformation.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals and support business strategies.
• Ensure transformational targets are met through recruitment, retention  and training process and utilising preferred suppliers.
• Ensure team participation in corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
• Deliver a world class service by ensuring a client centric culture through required interventions.
• Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimisation through promoting multi-skilling and addressing capacity gaps.
• Maintain stakeholder engagement by building effective business partnerships.
• Share knowledge and leverage on solutions through networking and collaboration with the relevant stakeholders.
• Manage and ensure adherence to budget by monitoring expenses.
• Contribute to the formulation of the budget by considering the strategic plans in line with required expenditure.
• Ensure forecasted staff requirements are documented, actioned accordingly and costed by managing head count associated costs.
• Manage and identify key operational and business risks by assessing risk areas against legislation, policies and procedures.
• Ensure awareness, compliance and implementation of all legislative and compliance issues.
• Facilitate a learning culture in the division by encouraging staff to take accountability for their own career development.
• Ensure implementation of appropriate performance management processes throughout the division to instil a high performance culture.
• Manage talent through learning and development, reward and recognition, succession and retention.
• Manage performance by implementing performance agreements, ensuring a clear vision, providing regular feedback on performance and recognising and rewarding achievement.
• Drive to execute planned development by acquiring knowledge, seeking coaching or other industry or technical learning events and opportunities.
• Maintain a capable high performing team by identifying a  talent pool through conducting career conversations and utilising the talent grid principles and developing talent retention programmes.
• Build depth of skills and knowledge in the team of managers by sharing knowledge and insight with team members, ensuring mentoring, coaching and day to day activities.

Job Responsibilities Continue

People Specification

• Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
• Diploma

Preferred Qualification

• Post Graduate Diploma: Human Resource Management

Essential Certifications
Preferred Certifications

• Minimum Experience Level
• 10 years HR experience with a minimum 4 years people management

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Budgeting
• Business administration and management
• Business principles
• Business terms and definitions
• Capacity planning
• Change management
• Client service management
• Communication Strategies
• Diversity management
• Employee training/development
• Financial Accounting Principles
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Human Resources systems
• Nedbank culture and values
• Nedbank policies and procedures
• Nedbank vision and strategy
• Organisational behaviour theory
• Principles of project management
• Relevant Nedbank product knowledge
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Stakeholder management
• Strategic planning
• Talent management
• Business writing skills
• Total reward management-
• Employee relations

Behavioural Competencies

• Building Partnerships
• Earning Trust
• Decision Making
• Facilitating Change
• Influencing
• Driving for Results