We are a leading Insurance and Financial Services Company offering a wide range of financial products and services in insurance. The product range includes life and general insurance, pensions, investment planning, wealth management, retirement planning and medical insurance.
As part of our growth strategy, the Company seeks to recruit a dynamic, passionate, innovative and result orientated professional to fill the below position:
Job Summary
Responsible for providing support in the various human resource functions, which include recruitment, staffing, training and development, payroll processing, performance monitoring, benefits administration and employee relations
Main Responsibilities
- Implement staff motivation and retention initiatives to ensure staff are highly engaged;
- Assist in coordinating, monitoring and evaluating performance management and appraisal processes for all staff;
- Ensure timely and accurate payroll preparation for all staff and timely payment of statutory deductions;
- Act as the department’s representative in key engagements and coordination of company events e.g. welfare committee, staff meeting, end year party
- Generation of necessary staff reports and metrics for management decision making;
- Facilitate the implementation of staff movement relating to promotions, transfers or discharge;
- Facilitate staff recruitment – this includes developing job descriptions and person specifications, preparing job adverts, checking application forms and shortlisting
- Facilitate On-boarding, training and other employee engagement initiatives;
- Maintain the filing system and up to date accurate staff data/ records;
- Managing the HRMS System in an accurate manner and preparing weekly, monthly and annual staff analysis and ad-hoc reports
- Maintaining HR Service related trackers to aid in the improvement of the departmental service Levels;
- Deal with requests for advances, loans and any other employee grievances and escalate to appropriate person.
- Managing the staff records and implementing the relevant actions (probation, contract renewal, induction programs)
- Assist in bench marking the staff regulations with other organizations and recommend updates in line with changing circumstances;
- Together with the HR team, ensures that all HR practices are in compliance with the Company employee manual, policies and labor laws.
Knowledge & Experience
The candidate must demonstrate and possess the following skills and qualifications:
- Degree in HRM or Business Management or any other related field
- Higher diploma in HRM
- IHRM Membership
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate, prioritize workload and work under pressure
- Demonstrated working knowledge of the management of HR functions preferably in the financial services sector
- Must be adept at interpersonal communications, conflict resolution and problem solving.
- A commitment to high standards of integrity, professionalism and confidentiality
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Human Resources management.
If you are interested in the position and have the required qualifications, please email a detailed CV indicating the current and expected salary and cover letter clearly indicating ‘Human Resource Officer’ on the subject line to applications@kenyanalliance.com by 7th March 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
