Head of People Business Partnering

3 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates DT One Full time

**Overview**

Reporting into the Group Chief People Officer, this is a global role that will own the strategy and the execution of a wide array of people focussed projects. You will be a true partner to the business, an expert in navigating employment law globally and work with stakeholders in multiple geographies to achieve our business goals.

We're looking for someone that get's excited by delivering real value to the business by creating an engaging, high performing culture and work environment

This role can be based in either Singapore or Dubai.

**Key responsibilities**
- Business Partnering with Leaders and Board on the below key topics:

- leading organisational design and workforce planning
- maximising performance of our people
- driving business transformation
- coaching of business leaders
- leading on business unit specific M&A
- Working closely with our Shared Service Centre team on topics such as Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Total Rewards etc.
- Culture - defining and driving a unique culture for business relevant to business needs
- Responsible for setting and executing our compensation strategy relevant to each business (fixed, variable, equity etc), leveraging our Shared Services expertise
- Driving employee engagement, leveraging tools and data provided by our Shared Service team
- Managing and being our Employment law expert, handling employee relations and other cases
- Define and roll-out other policies and programs specific to business needs
- Act as a coach and mentor to individuals in our Shared Service function to ensure they have sufficient knowledge to provide support to employees in each business
- Partnering closely with other Heads of People Business Partnering (PBP) for the other business within our group to create alignment and benefit from each other's experience
- Participate in group-wide projects, together with other PBPs and/or Shared Service team
- Working in a matrix structure, reporting into the CEO of DT One unit as well as the Group Chief People Officer

**Requirements**:

- Proven track record as Business Partner, experience operating and influencing at C-level
- Strong business acumen, desire to understand business needs and ability to tailor People priorities/activities accordingly
- Strong business partnering, coaching, analytical and influencing skills
- Ability to present at a senior level
- Having a good grasp of business financials
- Proven track record of working in matrix organisations, ideally in a set up with a Shared Service Centre environment, reporting into both business unit leader as well as Group Chief People Officer
- Strong international employment law knowledge of multiple markets with diverse and complex legal systems
- Experience with compensation strategies and partnering with central C&B resources to leverage benchmark data to support pay decisions
- Strong data focus - proven track record of leveraging data to support business decision making
- Ability to work across different cultures, proven track record of bringing people with different working styles together
- Track record of supporting business transformation processes
- Experience with HR instruments such as personality profiling
- Team player
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken

**About us**

DT One is the world's leading B2B fintech network powering cross-border VAS remittances to over 5 Billion users across 160 countries. Whether remittance senders choose banks, telcos, digital apps or retail, DT One is there to delivers smarter data-driven mobile solutions, empower financial inclusion and much needed connectivity to ensure that no one is left unconnected.

Founded in 2005, the DT One team is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in Dubai, Miami, Nairobi, Barcelona and London.



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