People Lead Africa
LemFi provides international payment products for immigrants, including multi-currency wallets, global money transfers, payment requests, and eSIM connectivity.
About LemFi
LemFi is a financial technology company offering international payment products designed to help immigrants thrive financially. Its services include multi-currency wallets, international money transfers to more than 30 countries, money requests and payment links, and eSIM connectivity. Transfers can be sent to bank accounts, mobile money, and other destinations, typically arriving within minutes.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the people agenda across African markets, advise senior local leaders, manage complex employee relations cases, lead a People Advisor, oversee employment compliance, run core people operations, analyze regional data, localize global initiatives, and coach people managers.
Requirements
- Six to nine years of experience as an HR generalist.
- Strong experience across African markets, especially Nigeria.
- Experience managing complex employee relations cases end to end.
- Experience managing or mentoring a direct report.
- Strong knowledge of South African labour law and statutory requirements.
- Experience working in a global or distributed business.
- Proficiency with modern HRIS platforms.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across cultures and seniority levels.
- Experience with Rippling is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Advise leaders across African markets on team dynamics, performance, and organizational design.
- Own complex and escalated employee relations cases.
- Manage and coach the People Advisor in Nigeria.
- Own South African employment and statutory compliance.
- Oversee compliance across other African markets.
- Run onboarding, offboarding, data management, and recurring HR processes.
- Consolidate regional people data on retention, engagement, and organizational health.
- Localize and roll out global people initiatives.
- Support global people operations projects.
- Coach and upskill people managers across the region.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement