FinTech Wales Recruitment Roundup – May 5th 2021 – Acquis Insurance, Hodge Bank, Comparison Creator & More

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Welcome to the FinTech Wales Recruitment Roundup, a bite-sized bulletin of the latest jobs added to FinTech Wales member’s career pages over the last week.

If you or someone you know are looking for an opportunity to work at an industry-leading financial technology company, then check out the latest lowdown of the freshest jobs in Welsh FinTech.

Acquis Insurance – Marketing Executive

Company – Acquis Insurance

Job Title – Marketing Executive

Location – Newport

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Available

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “The role will play an essential part in our marketing team, working closely with the commercial, sales and client management teams, to support new business acquisition and existing client engagement.  

Apply on the Acquis website here

Trust Payments – Sales Support Executive

 

Company – Trust Payments

Job Title – Sales Support Executive

Location – Bangor

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time, Fixed

Remote Working – Yes

Perks – Yes

Description – “Reporting to the Business Development Director – Hospitality the Sales Support Executive will have direct relationships with and other business functions such as Underwriting and Support. They will also be required to have direct contact with merchants and partners.”

Responsibilities

•   Develop a deep understanding of Trust Payments internal processes
•   Develop an understanding of the payments industry
•   Build relationships with internal teams and key contacts within the group of companies.
•   Be a bridge between Sales, Underwriting and Partners
•   Maintain the database of prospect information
•   Demonstrate a fair understanding of where all merchants are in the sales team’s pipeline
•   Resolve issues / concerns regarding new applications effectively and efficiently, whilst utilising a sound knowledge of Trust Payments, including policies and on-boarding requirements
•   Manage the correspondence between the sales team and their partners
•   Monitoring customer accounts
•   Providing data and reports to help the sales team

Apply on the Trust Payments website here

Hodge Bank – MI Reporting Lead

Company – Hodge Bank

Job Title – MI Reporting Lead

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “As MI Reporting Lead you will be developing MI and reporting solutions to support our third-party relationships and internal committees and forums. You will be using your proven experience in this area to develop several key reports using our existing BI suite of data services and tools. The outputs you will be developing will streamline and improve our current report suite to ensure we are providing continuous first-class reporting.”

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and evolve the group monthly Management Information suite of reporting to support the performance and risk management of the organisation
  • Ensure that SLAs are met for providing regular reports and ensure that accuracy and data quality of output is maintained
  • Work closely with our Third-Party Manager to ensure that our high service level is maintained when providing regular MI reporting and automated data feeds to our third parties
  • Design automated mechanisms to produce reports, minimising manual effort where possible
  • Provide technical expertise and support to the report owners across the business
  • Work with the wider BI team to ensure reporting outputs are consistent with our other data services (Power BI Analytics & Data Extracts)
  • Work with key stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, and work with the wider BI team to build datasets to support the production of reports
  • Conduct testing and troubleshooting
  • Develop and update appropriate supporting documentation

Apply on the Hodge Bank website here

Comparison Creator – IT Development Manager

Company – Comparison Creator

Job Title – IT Development Manager

Location – Llantarnam Park, Cwmbran

Salary – Experience Dependant

Contract – Full Time, Flexible

Perks – Yes

Description – “We’re now looking for an IT Development Manager to join us on a permanent basis.  We’re temporarily working remotely but the office is based in Cwmbran, within easy commute of Newport, Cardiff and Bristol.”

Requirements

  • Technical leadership of the development team and delivery process
  • Line management and career development of a group of highly skilled LAMP developers
  • Knowledge and understanding of open-source technologies
  • Solid understanding of modern front end development technologies

Apply on the Comparison Creator website here

ActiveQuote – Sales Coordinator

Company – ActiveQuote

Job Title – Sales Coordinator

Location – Cardiff

Salary – £18,000 – £24,000

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “As an ActiveQuote Sales Coordinator, you will be the first contact with a customer, explaining the features of ActiveQuote and the benefits of the advised sales process, to generate and refer a lead for the Sales Consultants.  “

Responsibilities

  • Act as the first point of contact on call campaigns to bolster a customer’s interest and generate a lead for the Sales Consultants
  • Ensure all leads generated are correctly qualified as per the Sales Coordinator script
  • Clearly and concisely promote the features and benefits of ActiveQuote, our products and the advised sales process, whilst taking advantage of cross sell opportunities
  • Support the Sales Support department in busy periods by completing medical and lifestyle questionnaires with customers with a high regard for accuracy
  • Provide administrative support within the customer journey
  • Achieve and maintain targets for productivity, quality and compliance
  • Proactively work towards keeping up to date with company processes and policies and adhering to all FCA legislation and regulatory guidelines
  • To constantly display and encourage ActiveQuote company values of INTEGRITY, UNITY, INNOVATION and PASSION

Apply on the ActiveQuote website here

Currencycloud – Operations Delivery Specialist

Company – Currencycloud

Job Title – Operations Delivery Specialist

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Unspecified

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Remote Working – Yes

Perks – Yes

Description – “The Operations Delivery Specialist is responsible for ensuring the quality of our systems are continuously working to a high standard and that new features and integrations are operating at an acceptable level prior to releasing into production environments and making readily available to our clients.”

Responsibilities

  • Continuously develop understanding of payment, settlement and trading processes and system workflows, acting as a subject matter expert making sure adequate documentation is in place and stay up to date
  • Use this knowledge and understanding to help specify projects, working with both the Product and Tech Teams to set out requirements and making sure all risks/assumptions are understood and edge cases captured and handled
  • Identify improvements and suggest solutions for the operations system and workflow and communicating these to the Director of Service Delivery and/or VP Operations
  • Support Product and Tech Teams to address issues during development /testing phases

Apply on the Currencycloud website here

Yoello – Product Owner

Company – Yoello

Job Title – Product Owner

Location – Cardiff

Salary – £26,000

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “Our Product Owners make it happen.  They are the heartbeat of Yoello and own the product roadmap with accountability for prioritisation, requirements, design, user acceptance and product performance.   They are passionate about our product, customers and business and this gives them the drive and determination to get things done at pace.

Responsibilities

  • Prioritising our product backlog and roadmap using value, data driven insight and customer feedback
  • Collaborating and communicating with other PO’s, key stakeholders, engineers and designers to prioritise, build and launch new products and features
  • Owning and documenting the user journey
  • Analysing and defining requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Leading refinement sessions with engineers and designers ensuring new features and products meet our customers’ needs
  • Signing off on UI/UX designs
  • Conducting UAT (user acceptance testing) and providing the final sign-off on delivered features and products
  • Conducting analysis of customer and business feedback to make value-driven decisions and prioritisation calls
  • Triaging live issues that are detected

Apply on the Yoello website here

Principality Building Society – Change Accountant

Company – Principality Building Society

Job Title – Change Accountant

Location – Cardiff

Salary – £36,000 up to £39,000

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “Through this role, you will support the business deliver effective change and make strategic decisions, from refurbishing a branch to customer driven changes to our IT infrastructure. This opportunity involves working across a wide range of business areas to support the evaluation, initiation and ongoing measurement of changes aimed at delivering value for members.”

Responsibilities

You will work with project teams using the agile change methodology to forecast resource and third party costs and help cultivation measures that have line of sight to a robust problem statement. You will regularly report to key stakeholders to ensure good project governance and enable decision making.

Apply on the Principality Building Society website here

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These are just a selection of the new opportunities available in Welsh FinTech, so if you’re ready to take the next step professionally or know someone looking to kickstart a career in financial technology, don’t hesitate to apply for an exciting position at Wales’ best FinTechs.

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