Barclays Bank UK Jobs – Human Resources Business Partner-AVP

Organisation: Barclays
Bank UK
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About Barclays UK:
Barclays is a British
multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London.
It is a universal bank with operations in retail, wholesale and investment
banking, as well as wealth management, mortgage lending and credit cards. It
has operations in over 50 countries and territories and has around 48 million
customers. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and
clients worldwide.  With over 300 years
of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ
over 140,000 people. We provide corporate banking solutions to businesses with
an annual turnover of more than £5 million in the UK, and to large local
companies, financial institutions and multinationals in non-UK markets. We
support the success and growth of our clients by providing lending, risk
management, cash and liquidity management, trade finance, and asset and sales
financing.
Job Summary: The Human
Resources Business Partner will serve as the focal contact point for the
business area for all HR related queries. The incumbent is also responsible for
the interpretation of local HR policies and maintain HR standards and best
practice within business units.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. HR Planning, Forecasting
& Execution:
  • Acquire
    knowledge of external HR best practice, understands and challenges HR
    policy, direction and practice in a timely way to ensure Barclays achieves
    ‘Employer of Choice’ recognition
  • Organizational
    diagnosis, design & development, to facilitate high individual and
    organizational performance
  • Employee
    Relations D&G accredited and experienced in design of ER plans such
    that employees are engaged in the sharing of business information and consulted
    in business change as appropriate. 
  • Stays
    updated on the changes in employment legislation and ensure practical
    application in the work place. 
  • Represents
    the business in employment tribunals or critical stage 3 Disciplinary&
    Governance.
  • Comprehensive
    knowledge and understanding of the HR strategy
2. Strategy and Business
Planning:
  • Driving
    High Performance Agenda throughout the organization and ensuring each
    component part becomes BAU including differentiation of reward,
    consequence management
  • Grow
    the talent agenda to safeguard the leadership pipeline, attract and retain
    the most talented employees.
3. HR Consultancy 40%:
  • Serve
    as the point of contact for the Line Managers in relation to HR support
    needed to meet business objectives
  • Deal
    and respond to verbal (i.e. telephone or face to face) and written queries
    from staff on HR issues
  • Interpreting
    and advising on local HR policies on staff related matters, referring
    complex issues to senior HR official
  • Actively
    communicate HR policy changes and updates to other team members
  • Acts
    as HR quality controller and maintain HR standards and best practice
    within business units
4. Recruitment 30%
  • Assess
    manpower needs for business units in liaison with HRBP and line managers
  • Co-ordinate
    recruitment needs of business units
  • Actively
    facilitate internal or external advertisement of vacancies within business
    unit
  • Receive,
    sort and vet internal / external job applications
  • Carry
    out and evaluate recruitment interviews and invigilate assessment with the
    respective business
  • Undertake
    all administrative requirements covering recruitment e.g. opening files,
    arranging medicals, issuing offers and regret/decline letters/ draw up
    employment contracts
  • Assess
    candidates’ suitability for specific roles
  • Explain/answer
    questions to potential recruits relating to benefits, bank policies, general
    conditions of employment
  • Ensure
    that new recruit information is input in the HR Information System
5. Administrative Support to
Human Resources Department-  20%
Salaries
  • Calculate
    any salary adjustment in line with staff manual, for checking by a second
    official and check workings of other HR Assistants
  • Receive
    amendments from business lines on salary adjustments
Contracts: Check and originate new and amended contracts
for all staff types
Transfers
  • Complete
    all necessary paperwork, liaising with branches and other Staff Control
    Points as necessary.
  • Receive
    returns on transfers and ensure that the HR Information System is updated
Performance Management
  • Collation
    of end of year assessments for all staff.  
  • Work
    closely with staff and senior management to obtain ratings
  • Receive
    performance plans and complete necessary paperwork and pass to HR Assistant
    for input     
  • Maintaining
    HR records throughout the year ensuring that fresh performance plans are
    signed off when staff are transferred or promoted       
  • Act
    as Performance Management champion by interpreting policies to business
    lines
6. Influence, coach and
facilitate 20%
  • Support
    and coach senior executive leadership in implementing the HR dimensions of
    the business strategy defined. 
    Drive agreed priorities and HR initiatives to implementation,
    ensuring that the business effectively executes the initiatives to create
    real business value for time, effort and associated cost.
  • Support
    coaching and facilitation within the BEE & EE framework.
7.  Delivery Management 20%
 ‘Delivering the basics’ – Work in partnership with HRSP to deliver
integrated people solutions. Monitor delivery of HRSP around the basic
requirements of the business area for HR Shared Services and Resourcing &
Learning. Understand and provide feedback to HRSP and HR Leaders around
compliance with Service level Agreements, monitor these on behalf of the
business and bring to attention any areas of concern that could affect the performance
of the business.
Contracting with Suppliers
discuss with HR Leaders
potential requirements for specialist services, e.g. within ER & Reward
HRSP and Senior & Specialist Resourcing. Agree actions with Business. HR
Leaders and Human Resources Specialist Practice for specifically agreed
activities.
8. Employee Relations:
  • Implement
    and provide feedback around the employee relations environment for the
    business. Manage day to day ER issues and union stakeholder management.
  • Develop
    action plans associated with performance improvement and Employee Opinion
    Survey.
  • Work
    in liaison with Key Stakeholders to develop a culture within the
    Functional Business Unit that underpins Employer of Choice brand.
  • Ensure
    protection of the partnership agreement and facilitate joint trade union
    and management communication as appropriate to support change programmes.
9. Commercial Management-5%
Financial
impact –
Challenge
Leadership at Senior Executive level to ensure HR plans drive EP, are focused
on value at stake activity and remove value-destroying activity.  P&L awareness and understands the causal
factors of costs in the business area supported.
10. Leadership and Management
HR
Planning & Cost Leadership
  • Develop
    and monitor the HR plan, R&L forecast and calendar for the area,
    anticipate current and future resource/ activity demands for key
    suppliers. 
  • Monitor
    costs/ usage and seek to demonstrate the value/ cost equations for all HR
    interventions undertaken.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The
    applicant should be CIPD qualified or hold similar post graduate
    qualification and evidence of continued professional development.
  • Full
    range of distinctive capabilities and at least 70% of technical
    capabilities
  • Top
    Grading experience, Recruitment, Disciplinary & Grievance accredited
  • Full
    range of distinctive, technical capabilities and experience in high
    performance organization or world class HR consultancy
  • The
    ideal candidate should have several years HR experience comprising a
    minimum of three years generalist experience or HR consultancy experience
    in at least one HR specialism.  HPO
    background preferred
  • Skills
    in Organizational Diagnosis
  • Skills
    in Influencing, coaching and facilitation
  • Skills
    in transformational change management
  • Commercial
    acumen
  • Delivery
    management
  • Professional
    Technical capability & skill set
  • Employee
    Relations skills
  • Skills
    in Reward Management
  • Performance
    Development Management skills
  • Skills
    in Talent Management
  • Employee
    Communications skills
  • Excellent
    Organizational Development skills
  • Leadership
    & People Management skills
  • Skills
    in Resourcing
  • Skills
    and knowledge in Diagnosis Training and Development Planning
How to Apply:
If you feel challenged by any
of the above positions, and believe you can deliver on key deliverables as outlined
above, upload your application letter, current curriculum vitae and photocopies
of academic certificate to our recruitment website detail below:
Barclays is an equal
opportunity employer that recruits, develops and promotes people on merit, and
rewards outstanding performance, regardless of background and gender.
For queries contact us on
0417122453 or email: barclays.uganda@barclays.com
Deadline:  5th
November, 2014

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