Recruitment Roundup – 4th August 2021

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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.

Delio – Account Manager

Company – Delio

Job Title –  Account Manager

Location – Cardiff, London

Salary – Competitive 

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (25 days holiday exclusive of bank holidays, Flexible working policy & more)

Description:

Delio is looking for an Account Manager to create long-term, trusting relationships with their clients. The Account Manager’s role is to manage relationships with Delio’s clients, develop new business from existing clients and actively seek new sales opportunities where possible. 

This role will be based in either Delio’s Cardiff or London office (once regulations allow) with remote working options available. 

Key responsibilities

  • Build and maintain effective long-term relationships with some of our largest Enterprise accounts, understanding their business and their goals and presenting and positioning Delio solutions to help them achieve them.
  • Ensure clients have a high level of satisfaction, technology adoption and engagement with Delio.
  • Generate new revenue opportunities by identifying additional client needs.
  • Generating new leads from building client referrals.
  • Serving as the key relationship owner for all client needs – being a conduit to Delio solutions, helping bring the right people to solve their problems and being an escalation point when dealing with issues.
  • Work collaboratively with a range of teams within Delio including Commercial, Product and Delivery, Customer Success, Technology and Marketing.
  • Updating clients on the latest product functionality and help shape the product roadmap based on client feedback.
  • Working closely with clients to help design technology roll-out and success programmes.
  • Working with UK and international financial institutions (you may be required to travel to meet clients at times).

Essential requirements

  • Relentlessly client-focused.
  • Commercially-minded.
  • Strong experience managing relationships at SaaS Enterprise level.
  • A flexible worker who works well individually and as part of small teams. 
  • Passionate about the role of technology in helping businesses achieve their goals.
  • Ability to work closely with customers to gain a deep understanding of their business challenges.
  • Experienced in dealing with executives at VP and C-Suite levels.

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Delio’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Delio. 

Yoello – Business Support Executive

Company – Yoello

Job Title –  Business Support Executive

Location – Cardiff 

Contract – 6 months via Government’s Kickstart Scheme

Perks – Yes

Description: 

As Yoello continues their growth they are looking for more enthusiastic people to join their support team to assist with supporting new and existing Yoello merchants and provide great customer service. Yoello plans to grow rapidly and require more staff to support the growing number of merchants. 

The successful candidates will be ‘buddied up’ with one of the existing Business Support Executives and will be managed by the Business Support Manager. Their role will involve carrying out administrative tasks, answering and making calls to merchants and managing support email responses.

Yoello is participating in the UK government’s Kickstart Scheme which is striving to offer temporary placements for individuals aged between 16-24 who are currently receiving Universal Credit. Depending on performance there is a huge possibility that any successful candidate will be offered the opportunity to become a permanent employee.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Making calls to and answering inbound calls from new and existing Yoello merchants to help them with their set up and use of Yoello
  • Assisting with support requests via email and chat bot
  • Providing exceptional customer service
  • Administrative tasks including spreadsheet building and maintenance, building venues and menus for merchants on Yoello’s systems
  • Testing new features on our platform
  • Working across teams to provide support to the whole business

Soft Skills & Work Experience required:

  • Customer service experience preferred but not essential
  • Hospitality experience preferred but not essential
  • Experience with phone and email communication
  • Excellent phone manner
  • Flexible to jump into a range of tasks
  • Drive, enthusiasm and an eagerness to learn
  • Personable and able to build and maintain relationships with merchants

For more information on this role or to apply visit Yoello’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Yoello.  

Admiral Pioneer – Technical Architect  

Company – Admiral Pioneer

Job Title –  Technical Architect 

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – Competitive 

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Closing date – 15/08/2021

Perks – Yes

Description:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Admiral Pioneer Studio. As the Technical Architect within Studio, you will be responsible for working with the technical teams and stakeholders across multiple Pioneer businesses to assist in driving forward business objectives whilst instilling technical best practice.

Knowledge and abilities:

  • Have a track record of designing and building large-scale, cloud-based, highly available software platforms.
  • Understand the power of contract first development and approach challenges using an API first mindset.
  • Have demonstrated the ability to design complex systems in an iterative and evolutionary manner.
  • Are passionate about enabling other developers through your leadership and driving teams to efficient decisions.
  • Comfortable in getting your hands dirty as the need arises.
  • Passionate about application of technology for building impactful solutions
  • Have the ability to balance long-term objectives with urgent short-term needs
  • Have a Bachelor’s degree in a computer science or relevant experience

Experience:

  • A seasoned Technical Architect with deep knowledge of AWS
  • Engineering background with competency in Java, Python and associated technologies
  • Strong RDS and NoSQL data source design
  • Desirable – Snowflake experience
  • Experience with serverless and microservice based architectures
  • Strong knowledge of best practice design and integration patterns (Microservices, API, Event Driven Architectures, etc.)
  • Understanding and experience of developing partner integrated (API) business solutions

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Admiral’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Admiral

Currencycloud – Financial Crime Analyst 

Company – Currencycloud

Job Title –  Financial Crime Analyst

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive 

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (Individual learning and development budget, mental health days & more)

Description:

Currencycloud is looking for a talented Senior Compliance Analyst to join their New Business Onboarding team. This role would be an ideal role for a Junior KYC Analyst looking to take the next steps in their career. Coincover is ideally looking for someone who had previously dealt with the onboarding of a variety of regulated clients such as Payment Institutions and other Financial Institutions.

The details:

  • Responsible for onboarding Financial Institutions, Payment Institutions and Corporates in a myriad of industries and jurisdictions
  • Assisting the Team Lead in managing any new opportunities
  • Carrying out know-your-customer (KYC) and Know-your-business (KYB) checks
  • Reviewing and assessing a client’s regulatory cover
  • Performing Risk Assessments on new clients
  • Assessing the effectiveness of each clients AML framework
  • Undertaking onboarding calls to identify potential gaps within the client’s AML procedures
  • Conducting KYC Refreshes on existing New Business clients
  • Evaluating transactional activity of clients
  • Proactively escalating urgent cases to the MLRO/DMLRO for further review
  • Complete Compliance administration (such as keeping client records up to date)
  • Participate in regular reviews of departmental procedures and identify potential areas for improvement
  • Work cross-departmentally to proactively identify and resolve any queries and complaints
  • Keep up to date with current and future regulatory changes that affect the business and use this knowledge to proactively suggest improvements to compliance policies and procedures

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:

  • Has an understanding of AML regulations
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Fast thinker and quick learner with the ability to work effectively under pressure, in a rapidly changing environment
  • Excellent team working skills, capable of managing own workload and has tenacious attention to detail
  • Ability to prioritise work by taking the impact and scale of the work into consideration, as well as manage time effectively to meet deadlines
  • Able to analyse information to formulate questions and recommendations

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Currencycloud’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Currencycloud. 

Backbase – Principal Backend Engineer

Company – Backbase

Job Title –  Principal Backend Engineer

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive 

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes 

Description:

As a Principal Backend Developer you will help define and execute the technical vision for the product. You will help with the prototyping and validation of new architectural and technological ideas, ways of working, efficiency gains and refactoring initiatives. You’ll work across departments, foster collaboration, and you’ll be the face of Backbase’s product vision and success internally and externally. 

You will also interact with teams from the Pre-Sales and Customer Success Departments to ensure technology feedback from customers and field engineers is incorporated.

About you:

  • You have a solid background in software development, design and architectural patterns;
  • You are able to communicate clearly and confidently across all levels to get buy-ins from technical stakeholders as well as from your team members;
  • Your experience in the banking domain or Fintech products will be considered an advantage;
  • You have excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written;
  • You have experience with Java, Spring, Maven, JPA, Hibernate, CI and CD;
  • You have strong experience with microservices;
  • You are experienced in Cloud-native deployments and traditional application servers (WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat);
  • You are knowledgeable of relational databases (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL);
  • You have good understanding of non-functionals such as security, performance, scalability, etc.;
  • Being a Full-Stack developer is a huge advantage;
  • You have a solid understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns;
  • You know what “perfection” looks like in a given context and you can formulate a plan to achieve the desired state;
  • You have experience as a technical leader.

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Backbases website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Backbase. 

Sonovate – Finance Administrator 

Company – Sonovate

Job Title –  Finance Administrator

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive 

Contract – FTC (6 months)

Perks – Yes (28 days holiday + bank holidays, private medical insurance with Bupa & more)

Main Purpose and Scope for the Role:

To maximise profitability through effective and timely management of our incoming finance administration, and minimising the risk of account inaccuracies, whilst also providing support for the Credit Control Team.

Work proactively to deliver and maintain a first-class administrative service to a Team of credit controllers, ensuring we build a secure and profitable Sonovate. This is built on developing professional and efficient relationships with your team of credit controllers and providing excellent standards of customer service both internally and externally. This is to ensure that risks are identified and escalated, and the incoming administrative duties are managed and maintained.

Duties and Key Responsibilities:

  • Providing daily administrative support for a team of Credit Controllers, which includes preparing templated reminder letters
  • Liaising with customers via telephone and email to undertake new debtor verification
  • Maintain correct and up-to-date customer details and account records
  • Assist the team with any queries as a result of your allocations
  • Send out statements as required via excel and/or PDF
  • Assist the team with any ad-hoc projects/duties
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders to allow best practice
  • Challenge working processes and suggest improvements

Knowledge and Skill set:

  • Understanding of administration within a financial setting
  • Computer literate and confident with multi-system use
  • Confident with verbal and written communication
  • Good Excel skills

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Sonovate’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Sonovate.  

Coincover – ​​Software Engineer Tech Lead

Company – Coincover

Job Title –  ​​Software Engineer Tech Lead

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive 

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (bonus scheme , Flexible and remote working available & more)

Description:

Coincover is looking for a Tech Lead to take their engineering and technology to the next level. Putting customers at the centre of Coincover’s business you’ll be in the pursuit of engineering excellence, building a team and platform for global scale. This is a new role with an opportunity to influence and make an impact from the word go.   

What  you’ll  be doing:   

  • Taking responsibility for engineering within a small, focused cross-functional team on one of our products 
  • Leading technical design and implementation within the team 
  • Driving continual improvement and team excellence in an agile and collaborative environment  
  • Coaching and mentor others in the engineering team 
  • Working with product owners to ensure work is clearly defined and aligned with business objectives and scoped with effective team estimation 
  • Managing the technical delivery, code management and maintenance within the team to effectively control technical debt  
  • Supporting the sales and customer success teams in customer facing activities providing technical knowledge and support 

In the first three months you’ll be:

  • Leading the engineering within one of our cross functional product focused teams 
  • Building new technical capability to deploy to real clients at scale 
  • Working closely with Head of Engineering to help scale the engineering team 

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Coincover’s website, here. 

Confused.com – Senior Data Automation Engineer

Company – Confused.com

Job Title –  ​​Senior Data Automation Engineer

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive 

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (Discretionary cash bonus based on personal and business performance, 28 days holiday, plus extra time for good health & more)

Description: 

Confused.com is looking for a Senior Data Automation Engineer, a role that both enables and contributes to the services provided by the data team, focused on removing the need for any manual intervention.

Ideally, Confused.com is looking to take on someone who has experience with creating and configuring CI/CD pipelines or someone with expert knowledge in QA automation or previous experience as a developer as well as the capability and drive to fill this role

Working closely with colleagues from across the business, you’ll get the chance to expand your knowledge of different data technologies and explore new and exciting capabilities—including big data and artificial intelligence.

Key competencies:

  • Data Validation – Develop automated procedures to ensure data accuracy and integrity of complex data exports and reports.
  • Testing the ETL process and business logic that drives our reporting and data services.
  • Define, develop, and implement quality assurance practices and procedures, test plans and perform other assessments for all data-related code changes.
  • Develop automated tests using custom framework, and longer-term open source tools.
  • Configure and maintain test automation environments.
  • Create scripts, test sequences, and implement procedures to ensure appropriate test coverage.
  • Work closely with the wider data team members to understand and validate upstream application changes and the impacts on data, data models, and reports.
  • Work closely with technology, data, and product teams in the company to promote software quality standards.
  • Work closely with customer support and product owners to ensure customer service requirements are met.
  • Configuring and maintaining CI/CD environments, ideally within Azure but experience with other technologies would be beneficial.
  • Engage in test case execution including defect documentation and tracking, resolution support, and fix verification.

Essential skills:

  • Working knowledge of DevOps practises and removing manual processes.
  • Extensive experience with SQL and web services pertaining to QA and Test Automation.
  • Experience working with large amounts of Data from a QA perspective.
  • Experience testing multi-tier, consumer-facing web applications at more than just the UI level.
  • Experience testing batch / streaming ETL processes.
  • Broad experience designing and maintaining automated tests for whitebox and blackbox testing.
  • Experience with unit testing frameworks.
  • Knowledge of best practices for the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Working knowledge of Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS).

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Confused.com’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Confused.com. 

Wealthify – IT Technician 

Company – Wealthify 

Job Title –  IT Technician

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive salary up to £28,000 

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (24 days holiday a year – plus bank holidays, Annual bonus between 0-20% of your annual salary & more)

Description:

Working within the technology team at Wealthify, you will be responsible for providing IT solutions, maintaining computers and networks, and providing technical support to colleagues. 

As a technology focussed company Wealthify employs cutting edge cloud technologies, build and deploy bespoke software (web, API and mobile applications), and promote a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. This role presents opportunities to learn and grow beyond the role of IT Technician. 

Your role will involve: 

  • Managing users, groups, licenses and access policies in Microsoft 365 / Azure AD 
  • SharePoint / OneDrive Admin 
  • Microsoft Exchange Admin 
  • Intune (Mobile Device Management) set up and management of policies 
  • Assigning devices to users through Intune and remotely deploying software packages 
  • Procurement and set up of IT equipment such as laptops and mobile devices  
  • Maintaining relationships with hardware and software suppliers 
  • Registering warranties and arranging warranty repairs 
  • Serve as the first point of contact for IT support within the company 
  • Diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving software and hardware issues 
  • Maintaining and updating technical documentation 

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Wealthify’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Wealthify. 

Principality Building Society – Head of Corporate Communications

Company – Principality Building Society

Job Title –  Head of Corporate Communications

Location – Cardiff

Salary – £65,000 – £85,000 dependent on experience

Contract – Permanent, full-time, 35 Hours Fully Flexible

Perks – Yes

Description:

Principality Building Society has a new and exciting opportunity for a Head of Corporate Communications. Reporting directly to the Chief Customer Officer, the role holder will shape and deliver an integrated communications strategy which is both forward and outward looking, ensuring that they and their team are working with Senior Leadership across the business to deliver creative, innovative messaging that enables the business to deliver its strategic goals in a sustainable and consistent manner.

Accountabilities:

  • Providing consultancy and advice to the wider business on communication best practice and engagement, utilising external insight.
  • Responsible for contribution to the organisational strategy by developing and implementing an aligned functional strategy to support overall business objectives.
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team with shared accountability for ensuring that the shared objectives of the society are delivered.
  • Responsible for transformational leadership of the Corporate Communications team, including colleague development, engagement, wellbeing and succession planning.
  • Responsible for the effective utilisation and optimisation of role based budgets and resources.
  • Accountable for adhering to PBS compliance standards.

Key criteria includes: 

  • Track record of innovative communications management
  • Demonstrable experience of using a variety of media and methodologies to communicate with key audiences
  • Ability to balance numerous priorities and shifting between strategic priorities
  • The role holder needs to be an experienced and highly motivated Communications professional, confident in dealing with a diverse range of colleagues including at Executive level
  • Demonstrable experience of managing projects, change initiatives
  • Understanding of data protection and freedom of information legislation

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Principality’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Principality. 

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