Employee Relations Leader

At Optasia we use the latest technologies and tools to build impactful customer experiences, grow our network and provide comprehensive financial access for millions of customers in countries across continental Africa, Asia and beyond.

We are seeking a dynamicEmployee Relations Leaderwho brings deep experience handling complex employee relations matters in fast-growing, international organizations, together with a practical understanding of how to balance pace, fairness, consistency, and risk in a growing post-IPO business.

• The ideal person will combine strong international employee relations and employment law expertise with sound commercial judgement, excellent stakeholder management capability, and the ability to guide leaders through sensitive people issues with clarity and confidence
• Experience advising across multiple jurisdictions including in Africa and Asia, leading large-scale workforce optimization programs and enabling business and organizational change
• Coaching and upskilling leaders and managers on workforce change, adding to a culture of engaged and enabled people managers

This is a Senior team role in a growing business where delivering with confidence, pace, and sound judgement is essential, and where a go-getter spirit and customer orientation are valued as highly as technical excellence.

Candidate Profile

• A credible, commercially minded Employee Relations leader who can operate as a trusted adviser to senior leaders and stakeholders while maintaining excellent operational grip on high-risk and sensitive casework.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed, multicultural business where priorities shift quickly, local market

requirements

vary, and balanced judgement is required on high-impact people matters.

• Passionate about building fair, scalable and well-governed employee relations and people practices that protect the business, support growth, strengthen leadership capability, and create consistency across markets

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the lead advi…