Recruitment Roundup – 17th February 2023
17 February, 2023
Welcome back to FinTech Wales’ most recent Recruitment Roundup, where you can find a selection of the latest job vacancies listed by our FinTech Wales members.
If you’re ready to take the next step professionally or know someone looking to kickstart a career with an industry-leading financial technology company based in Wales, then check out the freshest jobs in Welsh FinTech included in today’s roundup.
De Novo Solutions – Multiple roles
de Novo is an exciting British technology company founded by the same entrepreneurs who created Certus Solutions, the original pioneers of Oracle SaaS Cloud in the UK&I. de Novo is once again pioneering into the digital world of the experience economy pushing the boundaries of the art of the possible using both ServiceNow and Oracle SaaS Cloud technologies together, innovating by re-imaging the world of work by delivering personalised employee experiences over standardised processes, thereby driving employee empowerment, engagement, satisfaction and contributing directly to an organisation’s goals through its people.
De Novo Solutions currently have a number of active vacancies for the following roles..
For further information about any of these opportunities or to apply, please email: [email protected].
Junior ERP Consultant
Location – Langstone, Wales or at de Novo’s satellite office in Guildford, Surrey
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – £30,000 – £45,000 depending on location
Description:
De Novo are looking for a Junior P2P Consultant, to join their delivery team in a client facing role.
You will:
- Lead/engage with clients on ERP transformation/change programmes
- Demonstrate your focus on the client relationship
- Analyse their situation, and follow-up with a solution
- Work with clients to structure their ERP function
- Scope and run ERP elements of projects/programmes
- Provide insight, innovation and thought leadership to clients on the latest thinking across ERP
- Contribute to planning, scoping and shaping the ERP elements of projects and programmes
- Demonstrate stakeholder and client management
Junior P2P Consultant
Location – Langstone, Wales or at de Novo’s satellite office in Guildford, Surrey
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – £30,000 – £45,000 depending on location
Description:
De Novo are looking for a Junior P2P Consultant, to join our delivery team in a client facing role.
You will:
- Lead/engage with clients on ERP transformation/change programmes
- Demonstrate your focus on the client relationship
- Analyse their situation, and follow-up with a solution
- Work with clients to structure their ERP function
- Scope and run ERP elements of projects/programmes
- Provide insight, innovation and thought leadership to clients on the latest thinking across ERP
- Contribute to planning, scoping and shaping the ERP elements of projects and programmes
- Demonstrate stakeholder and client management
Senior ERP Consultant
Location – Langstone, Wales or at de Novo’s satellite office in Guildford, Surrey
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – £60,000 – £72,000 depending on location
Description:
De Novo are looking for a Senior ERP Consultant, to join their ERP delivery team in a client facing role.
You will:
- Lead/engage with clients on ERP transformation/change programmes
- Demonstrate your focus on the client relationship
- Analyse their situation, and follow-up with a solution
- Work with clients to structure their ERP function
- Scope and run ERP elements of projects/programmes
- Provide insight, innovation and thought leadership to clients on the latest thinking across ERP
- Contribute to planning, scoping and shaping the ERP elements of projects and programmes
- Demonstrate stakeholder and client management
Senior P2P Consultant
Location – Langstone, Wales or at de Novo’s satellite office in Guildford, Surrey
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – £60,000 – £72,000 depending on location
Description:
De Novo are looking for a Senior P2P Consultant, to join our delivery team in a client facing role.
You will:
- Lead/engage with clients on ERP transformation/change programmes
- Demonstrate your focus on the client relationship
- Analyse their situation, and follow-up with a solution
- Work with clients to structure their ERP function
- Scope and run ERP elements of projects/programmes
- Provide insight, innovation and thought leadership to clients on the latest thinking across ERP
- Contribute to planning, scoping and shaping the ERP elements of projects and programmes
- Demonstrate stakeholder and client management
de Novo Graduate Programme
Location – Langstone, Wales
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – Starting salary of £25,000 rising to £28,000 in Y2 and £35,000 on completion
Description:
The de Novo Graduate Programme lasts 2 years depending upon the chosen area of focus, (whether– Functional, Technical or Testing). The journey is made up of practical activities, missions that will see you involved in client engagements along with learning and networking interventions.
de Novo’s Graduate Programme will provide a rewarding foundation for your career, enabling you to learn, advance and gain personal satisfaction from a job well done alongside de Novo’s core values of flexibility and a positive work-life balance.
Degree Apprenticeship Programme
Location – Langstone, Wales
Salary – Starting salary of £18,000 rising to £21,000 in Y2, £24,000 in Y3 and £30,000 in Y4
Description:
De Novo are delighted to be offering Degree Apprenticeships in partnership with the University of South Wales and the Welsh Government. The scheme involves apprentices splitting their time between University study and the workplace and enables students to have real workplace experience and earn a salary, whilst simultaneously gaining a full bachelor’s degree.
De Novo currently have openings in the following career paths: Javascript, Reporting, Support Desk, ServiceNow Customer Service Management (CSM) and ServiceNow Field Service Management (FSM).
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For further information about any of the above opportunities with de Novo or to apply, please email: [email protected].
Admiral – Application Support Analyst
Company – Admiral
Job Title – Application Support Analyst
Location – Cardiff
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – Competitive
Perks – Yes (You can read about Admiral’s key benefits here)
Description:
The role of the Application Support Analyst will be to provide frontline support for the end users of the Guidewire Claimcentre and Vectus systems. They will identify and help resolve any issues relating to the software in the live environment. Project Neo is due to go live with its first implementation of the Claimcenter application and all associated integrations. As such, we require a self-motivated individual to be able to triage incidents reported by the business users and assign them to the relevant support team.
Main Duties:
- To deal with Helpdesk queries within agreed timescales and service standards.
- Provide excellent customer service to all levels of the business.
- Liaise with other IT areas and maintain a good working relationship.
- Monitor various integrations using AppDynamics, report any issues to the associated support area.
- To promote great business communication of issues experienced / service affecting incidents.
- To be a point of reference for the team, and to the business regarding system issues.
- Produce high-quality, efficient solutions to answer the requirements of the business.
Click here for more information on this role or to apply.
Chetwood Financial – Finance Operations Analyst
Company – Chetwood Financial
Job Title – Finance Operations Analyst
Location – Wrexham / Hybrid
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – £42,000
Perks – Yes (pension, private medical insurance including dental and optical & more)
Description:
Reporting to the Finance Operations Manager, the Finance Operations Analyst is a varied role, primarily responsible for the oversight and reporting of the bank’s growing mortgage and savings books that would include the monthly accounting processes (including the reconciliation of balance sheet accounts) and analytical review of those accounts to ensure movements are understood and can be explained by key stakeholders within the business.
Chetwood has only recently initiated its mortgage lending products and so much of this role at the outset would involve establishing new or improving existing processes, ensuring automation and is at the forefront of design and implementation.
A can-do attitude and a continuous improvement mindset is a must, Chetwood has a multi-product balance sheet, every day is varied and all suggestions are welcomed. Chetwood are looking for someone who can identify inefficiencies, challenge the way they do things and be a team player within the finance team to help iterate change.
Responsibilities:
- Implementing financial processes and controls around the bank’s mortgage lending operations, which would involve collaborating with internal and external stakeholders of the business and input into the creation of a data warehouse.
- Ensuring timely and accurate reporting of daily mortgage completions into the general ledger system.
- Various monthly processes and reconciliations to both source systems and external data feeds to ensure the accuracy of month-end reporting.
- Reconciliation of savings balances and accrued interest.
- Running effective interest rate models and analysing data output to ensure veracity of numbers, and being able to confidently speak to those numbers to senior stakeholders within the business.
- Communications with and reporting to external stakeholders.
- Management and processing of daily payments in respect of the mortgage and savings books.
- Supporting the Finance Operations Manager in the creation of the monthly reporting pack in accordance with IFRS.
- Preparation of journal entries such as interest rate swap accruals, ensuring detailed support and accuracy of entries.
Click here for more information on this role or to apply.
Monmouthshire Building Society – Financial Risk Manager
Company – Monmouthshire Building Society
Job Title – Financial Risk Manager
Location – Newport/Cardiff with Agile working
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – £50,000 to £60,000
Perks – Yes (28 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and a day off on your birthday, Various health and wellbeing benefits & more)
Description:
An exciting opportunity has arisen in Monmouthshire Building Society’s Governance, Risk and Compliance team for a permanent Financial Risk Manager. The Financial Risk Manager provides oversight of financial risk management and provides subject matter expertise to promote an effective risk culture, ensure compliance with prudential risk management regulation and reporting requirements, and adherence to the Board’s risk appetite.
As the Head of Financial Risk, you will be responsible for:
- Providing second line oversight of the financial aspects of strategic decision making and subsequent risk management
- Ownership of the ICAAP, and oversight of other documents including Pillar 3, which contain prudential disclosures
- Providing a level of comfort in the accuracy of financial and regulatory reporting through coordinating and performing the review of material financial models, including inputs, assumptions and key controls and identifying enhancements required to operate within risk appetite
- Providing a level of comfort in the operation of key controls through oversight of controls assurance testing within Finance aligned to agreed risk appetite
- Providing subject matter expertise to the Finance team and Credit Risk function in respect of technical accounting and prudential regulation, including input to relevant areas of statutory and regulatory reporting and changes to supporting processes and models
Click here for more information on this role or to apply.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions – Software Engineer, Full Stack
Company – LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Job Title – Software Engineer, Full Stack
Location – Cardiff Bay
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – Competitive
Description:
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a passionate software engineer with experience and interest in full stack development and who is keen to enter a hybrid work environment, joining an established development team based in their office in Cardiff Bay.
In this role, you will join an agile team whose focus is on enhancing and building new capabilities to address our customers’ challenges.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver features across our full stack (Modern PHP frameworks, front-end frameworks, HPCC, Cloud services and architecture)
- Provide high level of technical input when breaking down customer problems and help the team create customer value
- Provide high level of technical input when designing new and scalable solutions
- Contribute to quality assurance efforts through test automation tools (Cypress, Cucumber and Postman) and Continuous Integration tools (Github Actions)
- Collaborate with the product owner and project management roles to deliver timely products and enhancements
- Support the team in achieving their mission, by helping to set OKRs and realise success
- Mentor other team members and support efforts to help our team grow
Click here for more information on this role or to apply.
Pepper Money – Data Privacy Manager
Company – Pepper Money
Job Title – Data Privacy Manager
Location – Cardiff, London
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – Competitive
Perks – Yes (read more about Pepper Money’s rewards and benefits)
Description:
To be successful in this role you need to have excellent knowledge and understanding of the current data protection laws, as you will be responsible for informing and advising the business as well as our employees about data protection and our obligations to comply with UK GDPR and other data protection laws, you will also be responsible for the data protection policies, including the review of internal data protection activities. In addition to this you will assist with training employees involved in data processing and monitoring compliance conducting regular audits and reviews of these roles.
What you’ll be doing:
- Manage & maintain the Data Protection (DP) Policy ensuring it is reviewed and updated at least annually, and monitoring the necessary controls are operated to monitor / achieve compliance with the policy
- To provide advice on whether DPIAs are required to identify, minimise, and manage the DP risks in the projects we undertake as an organisation
- Ensure the relevant Standards, Procedures, training, and guidance are in place to support compliance with the DP policy
- To advise Pepper Money on its obligations under data protection laws and for monitoring compliance with such
- To undertake reviews of data protection compliance – through a DPIA or a similar exercise – of third parties that process data on behalf of Pepper Money
- To review identified risks in processing activities, providing management audit reports related to data protection risks and compliance with applicable laws
- To ensure the promotion of data protection awareness, with training and education programmes to cover data protection
- To ensure appropriate processes for responding to and the handling of Data Subject Access Requests, or other requests, under the UK-GDPR individuals’ rights
- To review data processing activities and seek out opportunities for continuous improvement in relation to these activities
- To serve as the point of contact and liaison for the data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), and data subjects on data protection related matters under the UK-GDPR and related data protection legislation
Click here for more information on this role or to apply.
FE fundinfo – Digital Account Manager
Company – FE fundinfo
Job Title – Digital Account Manager
Location – London
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – Competitive
Description:
FE fundinfo is a leading global fund data and software company that connects fund managers and fund distributors in the investment industry with the goal to facilitate better investment decisions.
The Digital AM role will be to undertake proactive opportunity development in partnership with the wider Account Management team.
This will entail learning and executing on specific programmatic GTM understanding the customer value proposition, researching and identifying the relevant stakeholder in the target market and directly engaging with such stakeholders to generate upsell & cross sell opportunities.
The Digital AM will partner closely with marketing and the sales team who will enable and support them in achieving their goals and measurements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Learn, understand and be able to drive engagement and understand the key elements of the selected value proposition.
- Proactive client & opportunity development.
- Engage & deepen relationships with allocated clients, to qualify and create opportunities
- Capture information to qualify total addressable market and manage their pipeline.
- Partnering with relevant sales team across FEA and FEI
- Deliver excellent customer service
- Demonstrate active listening & excellent verbal and written communications skill
Click here for more information on this role or to apply.
Yoello – DevOps Engineer
Company – Yoello
Job Title – DevOps Engineer
Location – Cardiff
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – Competitive
Perks – Yes (25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Pension Scheme & more)
Description:
Yoello is a fast-growing fintech company that specialises in providing mobile payment solutions, connecting merchants and customers in the physical world and revolutionising the way payments are made.
Responsibilities:
- Design and deploy scalable, highly available, secure, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.
- Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code (Terraform)
- Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
- Modify existing software in AWS to improve performance.
- Promote cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve common goals.
- Examine data to grasp issues, draw conclusions, and solve problems.
- Coach and mentor others in the engineering team
- Identify deeper issues that need fixing
Click here for more information on this role or to apply.
Hodge – Mortgage Origination Team Leader
Company – Hodge
Job Title – Mortgage Origination Team Leader
Location – Cardiff
Contract – Full-time, Permanent
Salary – £36,000
Perks – Yes (Subsidised Gym Membership, Private Medical & Health Insurance & more)
Description:
Hodge is a financial services business focused on the commercial lending, savings and specialist residential mortgage markets.
The Mortgage Origination Team Leader will lead, develop and motivate our underwriters and mortgage processing team. Through leadership, the team will deliver low effort experiences from DIP to completion of the customer’s mortgage.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Creating a highly engaged and motivated team with a strong emphasis on listening.
- Dedicate your time to achieving our 70/20/10 model
- 70% of your time is dedicated to coaching, performance management and observing your team interacting with Hodge’s customers and carrying out their role. Hodge would expect you to look for opportunities to coach when the need arises, for example after observations of meetings, interaction with other teams and so forth.
- 20% of your time continuously improving the mortgage origination journey and general processes and systems that we have in place. Where they drive effort, you will work with other team leaders, the Head of Mortgage Origination and other managers to analyse and escalate issues that create effort for Hodge’s customers.
- 10% of your time working on your own personal development and taking on additional responsibilities that enabled you to develop new skills.
- Play an active role in the shaping and achievement of the Mortgage Origination strategy. You will also be responsible for challenging and proposing solutions to any gaps in the strategy that create high effort experiences for Hodge’s customers.
Click here for more information on this role or to apply.
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