Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

HR Business Partner (OVA5552)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Cape Town, ZA (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

HR Business Partner (HRBP)

Location: Cape town

Contract: 12 Months

Are you a proactive, commercially minded HR professional who thrives on partnering with leadership and driving meaningful people impact?

We're looking for an experienced HR Business Partner
to join a dynamic team, playing a key role in enabling business performance, shaping culture, and delivering a best-in-class employee experience.

About the Role

As a trusted advisor to business leaders, you'll provide end-to-end HR support across the full employee lifecycle, ensuring practical, compliant, and people-focused solutions.

You'll play a critical role in talent optimisation, performance management, employee relations, and organisational effectiveness—while proactively identifying risks and opportunities through people insights.

Key Responsibilities

  • Partner with leadership to translate business strategy into impactful people plans
  • Deliver full HR generalist support across the employee lifecycle
  • Lead performance management processes (goal setting, reviews, calibration)
  • Facilitate talent reviews, succession planning, and development initiatives
  • Manage employee relations matters independently (disciplinary, grievances, incapacity, conflict)
  • Provide expert guidance on South African labour legislation
  • Support organisational change initiatives (restructures, onboarding, integration)
  • Use people data (turnover, performance, EE) to drive insights and decisions
  • Collaborate with HR specialist teams to deliver integrated solutions
  • Contribute to building a high-performance, values-driven culture

What We're Looking For

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in HR / Industrial Psychology / Labour Relations
  • Honours Degree (advantageous)

Experience:

  • 3–5 years in an HR Generalist or HRBP role
  • Strong experience handling employee relations independently
  • Exposure to talent and performance management frameworks
  • Financial services or asset management experience (preferred)

Knowledge & Skills:

  • Solid understanding of SA labour legislation
  • Experience with HR systems (e.g. SuccessFactors)
  • Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Business acumen and ability to operate in a regulated environment

Advantageous:

  • SABPP registration
  • Change Management / Coaching certifications
  • Enneagram or Insights certification

Key Competencies

  • Building Partnerships & Earning Trust
  • Independent Thinking & Accountability
  • Learning Agility & Forward Thinking
  • Conflict Resolution & Change Facilitation
  • Strong Work Ethic & Resilience
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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