People Business Partner (UK)

Moniepoint Group has been ranked one of Africa’s fastest-growing fintech companies three years in a row by the Financial Times. Backed by Visa and Google’s Africa Investment Fund in our $110 million Series C, we’re building transformative financial products that solve real problems – starting with underserved communities across Africa and the diaspora. Our growth isn’t just fast; it’s meaningful, creating real impact for tens of millions of people who have been left out of the financial system.

As part of this expansion, we’ve launched MonieWorld – our diaspora banking platform designed to serve Africans globally, supporting both their home today and home of origin. MonieWorld is a subsidiary of Moniepoint Inc and a core part of our international growth strategy. Alongside MonieWorld, the UK also serves as a key group hub for Moniepoint, home to our founders, senior leaders, and strategic hires who support our Nigeria and global businesses. Our UK-based teams work across product, technology, operations, and group functions, playing a central role in shaping Moniepoint’s direction as we scale internationally.

Join us as we build a differentiated banking platform for the African diaspora – and a globally connected organisation – making it easier to support loved ones, manage finances across continents, and participate more fully in global economic life.

Job Purpose

As People Business Partner, UK, you will act as the dedicated People Business Partner (PBP) for MonieWorld globally and all UK-based employees across Moniepoint entities, supporting ~180 employees in total. You will serve as the primary People interface for the UK as Moniepoint’s international hub outside Nigeria, balancing group standards with local execution. This is a hands‑on, builder role – ideal for a strategic, experienced People Business Partner or early‑stage People leader who wants real ownership. You will take the strong foundations already in place and evolve them to support a fast‑moving, regulated fintech business operating across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones.

You will make a huge impact, supporting a highly international, regulated fintech environment with employees spanning multiple countries, time zones, and employment models, and help to strengthen performance, engagement, and organisational clarity as our business scales its product, customers, and impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the People Business Partner for MonieWorld’s globally distributed workforce, and for all UK-based group employees who contribute to Nigeria-facing and group-wide initiatives, partnering with leaders across product, technology, growth, and operations, and ensuring consistent people practices across entities.
• Apply enterprise people frameworks in a right-sized, practical way for smaller, fast-scaling international teams.
• Partner with leaders managing teams across multiple geographies and time zones, ensuring clarity, fairness, and consistency in people decisions.
• Act as a key People interface between Nigeria-based People leadership and UK-based leaders and employees.
• Partner with business leaders to operationalise people plans, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and talent priorities.
• Manage day‑to‑day employee lifecycle matters in partnership with People Operations and Employee Relations.
• Coach line managers on performance management, feedback, and team engagement.
• Analyse people metrics (attrition, engagement, performance) to identify local trends and propose solutions.
• Support organisational design, workforce planning, and change initiatives.
• Collaborate with COEs (Talent Management, Total Rewards, Learning, ER) to deliver enterprise programmes into business units.
• Act as a culture champion, driving inclusion and accountability through daily interactions.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years HR experience, including 3+ years in an HRBP or advisory role.
• Proven capability managing multiple business units or teams.
• Analytical mindset with ability to interpret data trends.
• Solid understanding of core HR processes and employment regulations, particularly within the UK.
• Experience working with internationally distributed or multicultural teams.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to operate credibly across different functions and seniority levels.
• Working knowledge of UK people practices, with the ability to partner closely with COEs on compliance-sensitive matters.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, banking, or digital environments.
• Exposure to organisation-wide HR transformation or scaling initiatives.
• Background in startup or scale-up organisations (Series A–C or similar).
• Exposure to organisational design, workforce planning, or change management in growing businesses.
• Familiarity with UK immigration considerations.
• Experience supporting technical, product and engineering-led teams.
• Exposure to a multi-cultural environment, including experience supporting businesses in multiple locations outside of the UK.

About You

You’re a strategic operator who balances business acumen with people insight. You see patterns in data, behaviours, and structure – and use them to shape decisions that build capability and performance at scale. You’re confident in influencing senior leaders, framing complex people issues in business terms, and driving clarity where ambiguity exists. You’re a coach and connector – developing PBPs to think critically, partner strategically, and deliver with empathy and precision. You collaborate fluidly across COEs, ensuring that enterprise initiatives translate into meaningful impact on the ground. You’re known for your sound judgment, calm under pressure, and ability to hold leaders accountable while strengthening trust. Above all, you elevate the people function – turning strategy into measurable outcomes that advance both culture and commercial success. You’re comfortable operating across geography, culture, and entity boundaries without losing clarity or pace. You can adapt enterprise people standards to different business contexts without diluting intent or rigor.

What Success Looks Like

• You are recognised as a trusted People partner to the MonieWorld and wider Moniepoint Inc. (Group level) leadership team, contributing meaningfully to business and people decisions.
• UK-based employees experience consistent, well-supported people practices despite working across different entities and regions.
• Cross-border people risks are identified early and addressed proactively through strong partnership with COEs and People Operations.
• The UK hub feels well-integrated into Moniepoint’s broader People ecosystem, with clear alignment between enterprise strategy and local execution.
• You have designed and implemented business unit-specific people strategies that demonstrably contribute to achieving core business objectives (e.g., market expansion, product innovation, operational efficiency).
• Your influence extends to shaping company-wide HR policy and programme design, providing crucial business context and feedback to Centres of Excellence (COEs).
• You have successfully led the end-to-end deployment of multiple COE-led strategic initiatives across your business units, ensuring high-quality execution, sustained adoption, and demonstrable positive impact on key people metrics.
• You have a high-performing People Business Partner (PBP) team or support staff that you mentor, develop, and delegate effectively to, ensuring consistent, high-quality HR support for the business.
• Your proactive people risk mitigation and strategic workforce planning result in a highly stable, engaged, and optimally structured talent base that is ahead of the curve in meeting future business needs.

What to Expect in the Hiring Process

A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters. A 60‑minute in‑person interview with our Head of Talent Management.