Job Opportunities at Autochek Africa

Job Summary
As the Human Resources Manager you will play a pivotal role in the effective management of the company's human resources operations in the countries that you manage. You will be responsible for overseeing various HR functions, including recruitment, employee relations, performance management, compliance, and policy development. Your mission is to create and maintain a positive and productive work environment while ensuring HR policies and practices align with legal requirements and organizational goals. Assist the Head of Unit to build, challenge and motivate employees to deliver a complete human resources capability that can scale as the company grows
Competency Profile
Talent Acquisition

• Ensure that requests for hiring are escalated to the SVP of Human Resources for approval prior to ensuring alignment with financial budgets.
• Lead the recruitment process, including job posting, candidate sourcing, interviewing, and selection for grades A, B and C
• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand staffing needs and ensure timely and effective hiring.
• Creation of offer letters in accordance with salary grades

Employee Relations

• Address and resolve employee concerns, conflicts, and grievances in a fair and timely manner.
• Promote a positive and inclusive work culture through effective communication and conflict resolution

Performance Management

• Manage the performance management process, including assistance with setting of performance goals, conducting evaluations, and providing feedback and coaching to employees.
• Ensure performance management practices align with organizational objectives.
• Assess candidates (entry, middle & senior level management) to determine their capabilities and optimize person to job compatibility

Compliance and policies

• Stay informed about employment laws and regulations to ensure company compliance.
• Communicate HR policies and procedures to employees.
• Participate in and supports all internal/external recruitment audits within the business as necessary

Training and Development

• Together with the Head of Learning and Development - Identify training needs and collaborate with departments and line managers alike to ensure that on-going training initiatives are being done.
• Encourage continuous learning and professional development among employees.

Employee Benefits And Payroll

• Oversee employee benefits programs, including health insurance, retirement plans, and other perks.
• Assist employees with benefit-related inquiries and issues.
• Ensure that payroll is completed timeously on payspace

Data Analytics and Reporting

• Maintain accurate HR records and utilize HRIS systems to generate reports for analysis and decision-making.
• Provide regular HR metrics and insights to senior management.

Safety and Wellness

• Promote workplace safety and wellness initiatives.
• Coordinate with relevant parties to address workplace health and safety concerns.

Onboarding / Offboarding

• Oversee the onboarding process for new hires, ensuring a smooth transition into the organization.
• Manage the offboarding process, including exit interviews and knowledge transfer.
• Ensure that the handbook is 100% up to date
• Ensure exit interviews are completed
• Take data from exit interviews for discussion with SVP Human Resources

Technical Requirements

• Proven experience overseeing people management at management level or other mid-managerial position within similar or a related industry
• Strong understanding of recruitment strategy, service management and performance management principles
• Familiarity with diverse business functions such as training, business development, communications management, employee experience, is an advantage

Knowledge & Skills Required

• Ability to define the long term business strategy while also addressing the hands-on tactical needs of the business at all levels
• Proactive, ethical, high energy, hands-on manager with great interpersonal skills to function across all levels of the organization as well as with external entities
• Thoughtful and demonstrates good judgment and strong decision-making based on accurate and timely analysis
• Strong organizational and project management skills; attention to detail
• Proven business management experience in an unstructured and fast-paced environment
• Proven experience building strong business partnerships and executive presence; able to establish credibility and support with other stakeholders
• Outstanding time management skills
• Results-oriented approach to work; willingness to do whatever it takes to help the team
• Ability to identify and implement efficiencies and process improvements
• Able to deliver highest standards of customer service
• Strong problem solving and creative skills
• Understand the extended enterprise and have an appreciation for value creation based on understanding of overall vision for the business

Skill And Experience Required

• Minimum of first degree in a related field. A Master’s degree is desired
• 5+ years of experience with up to 3 years in a human management position
• Exposure to global/international organizations will be an added advantage
• Experience in developing HR strategies and implementing employee relations activities

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Responsibilities

• We seek to engage a highly skilled and experienced Data Engineer who will work within the Business Intelligence team to orchestrate data extraction from multiple data sources. Our data landscape is a largely diverse enterprise with data sources ranging from traditional relational database management systems to 3rd Party cloud solution providers and no-code/low-code platforms. As such, a lot of data extraction jobs are largely API driven. You would be required to build systems that perfectly execute data extraction and transformation to support the data analytics teams and drive speedy decision-making across the enterprise.

Requirements

• B.Sc. Degree or its equivalent in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
• 3+ Years building and orchestrating data pipelines
• 5+ years writing clean, usable and well-documented Python code
• Experience working with a startup will be considered an advantage
• Proficiency in ETL development using Python and SQL.
• You have experience working with ELT platforms like StitchData, and Fivetran.
• Hands-on experience with Python data processing frameworks such as PySpark and Pandas.
• Good Knowledge of Software Development Standards and best practices such as Test- Driven Development (TDD), KISS etc
• Experience with using CI/CD tooling to analyse, build, test and deploy your code
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing Concepts and Data Warehouse Modelling.
• Experience working with at least one Cloud Data Warehouse Solution (Google BigQuery Preferred).
• Good understanding of design choices for data storage and data processing, with a particular focus on cloud data services.
• Experience with data flow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Airbyte is an advantage.
• Experience with distributed computing and container orchestration (Kubernetes) is an advantage.
• Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven architecture is an advantage

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What You’ll Do

• We’re looking for folks with an interest in building products and tools, and comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. You’ll be building customer-facing products that will drive direct business impact and shape our long-term technical vision with a high-quality bar. You'll have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the best software experience to help companies grow. You’ll be encouraged to be metric and data-driven and to think creatively to help Autochek scale and prepared for the new markets we are about to enter.

Responsibilities

• Take a leadership role in developing infrastructure to improve the speed of our organization
• Follow best practices to ensure fast, secure, reliable and maintainable production environments
• Implement internal tooling for logging, alerting, monitoring, etc. that requires minimal maintenance to maximise developer velocity
• Own the uptime of our various products – with assistance from a top-rate engineering team
• Own the security of our various cloud systems & development environments
• Strive to minimize risk of issues or outages, but also rapidly respond with a cool, calm demeanour to production issues whether at 2 pm or 2 am
• Deeply learn our industries served & customer base to develop a comprehensive understanding of our business

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
• Minimum of 1 year of Go/Javascript experience
• Expert in Google Cloud Platform
• Expert with Kubernetes & Docker
• Expert with SQL / Postgres
• Leadership in implementing DevOps, CI/CD, SRE
• Experience implementing and maintaining compliance with various security standards (ISO 27000, SOC 2, etc.)
• Desire to understand the business context for the solutions you are building
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working with production systems

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Autochek Africa is an Automotive Technology development company that builds solutions aimed at enabling and enhancing commerce within the automotive sector. We focus on solutions that improve access to Auto loans, quality maintenance / after sales services, warranty solutions, and transactional marketplaces and we seek a Engineering Manager/Team Lead at Autochek

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Autochek Africa is an Automotive Technology development company that builds solutions aimed at enabling and enhancing commerce within the automotive sector. We focus on solutions that improve access to Auto loans, quality maintenance / after sales services, warranty solutions, and transactional marketplaces and we seek Software Intern at Autochek