Recruitment Roundup – 5th May 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.

Delio – Management Accountant

Company – Delio

Job Title – Management Accountant

Location – Cardiff, hybrid 

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – £40k – £50k DOE

Perks – Yes (Private medical cover, Life insurance & more)

Description: 

Delio is transforming private markets. Their technology and expertise help the world’s most respected financial institutions deliver private market transactions to their clients. 

Delio is looking for a highly motivated and talented management accountant to support the Chief Financial Officer with all Finance related matters across our fast-growth international business. 

Key responsibilities:

• Production of monthly management accounts and assisting with year-end statutory reporting, including the year-end audit
• Overseeing the production of quarterly VAT return and annual corporation tax reporting 
• Production of quarterly reports for the regulator (FCA)
• Overseeing the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes
• Preparing ad-hoc management information and analysis as needed by the Chief Financial Officer and the wider business
• Maintain a good system of financial controls

Click here for more information on this role or to apply. 

Admiral – Data Science Graduate Programme

 Company – Admiral

Job Title – Data Science Graduate Programme

Location – Cardiff, hybrid 

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Starting Salary – £24,150

Description: 

At Admiral, data & analytics are at the heart of everything they do. They are how Admiral achieves their goals of helping more people to look after their future and evolve our business into one that is even more agile and technology driven.  

Admiral are looking for logical, mathematically minded people with an analytical way of thinking developed through a degree such as Maths, Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology or similar. We firmly believe that the transferable skills developed in your degree put you in a strong position to learn to model and manipulate data to solve business problems across Admiral. Previous financial services knowledge or industry experience is not expected as you’ll learn this on the job.

Year 1 Main Responsibilities: 

• Assist in providing business solutions by analysing information requests and collaborating with business areas to create reporting requirements
• Use Data Management and Business Information tools to turn reporting requirements into easily digestible business reports
• Ensure a high level of data quality through documenting and reconciling the process and results
• Maintain good communication with customers with regular updates on the development of their request
• Continuously develop knowledge in all aspects of the business to help provide analysis and insight to supplement report delivery

Year 2 Main responsibilities:

• Development, evaluation and implementation of advanced statistical and machine learning models to extract insight from data and solve business problems
• Creation of meaningful datasets for modelling and evaluation from a vast quantity of data in multiple formats
• Working with stakeholders to ensure model understanding and the most is gained from the insights
• Staying up-to-date with trends and developments in technology, methods in the data science community and proactively research new skills and methods

Click here for more information on this programme or to apply. 

Mazuma – Accountant

Company – Mazuma

Job Title – Accountant

Location – Bridgend 

Contract – Full-Time, Permanent 

Salary – £24,000 – £36,000

Perks – Yes (Pension contributions, incentives and bonuses & more)

Description: 

Are you a driven and ambitious individual looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity in the accounting world? Mazuma is seeking a brilliant accountant to join our team of game-changers.

Key responsibilities include providing unparalleled customer service, creating customised management accounts with expert advice, and ensuring all deadlines are met without fail. You will also be the go-to person for client queries, preparing company accounts across a variety of sectors and more.

To qualify for this role, you must have a minimum of AAT Intermediate qualification or be studying towards ACCA or ICAEW. You must also have excellent customer service skills, the ability to prioritize workloads, and a professional and hard-working attitude.

Overall responsibility:

Preparation of year-end accounts, tax returns and company tax returns. Ensure all deadlines are achieved and individual team members are developed to their full potential.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Highest standard of Customer care
• Completion of management accounts for clients with tailored advice
• Ensure all deadlines (VAT, Statutory accounts, Corporation Tax, Self-Assessment, Payroll) are fully adhered to
• Dealing with queries over the telephone and via email with clients directly
• Ensure all time deadlines are strictly adhered to
• Preparing company accounts across a broad range of sectors for companies, sole traders and partnerships

Click here for more information on this role or to apply. 

Pepper Money – Assistant Financial Controller

Company – Pepper Money

Job Title – Assistant Financial Controller

Location – Cardiff

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – Competitive 

Perks – Yes (Private Medical Insurance cover with BUPA, four times life insurance cover paid by the company & more)

Description: 

Pepper Money is a specialist mortgage lender backed by a global financial institution offering first and second charge loans. 

A qualified accountant, you will be highly organised, confident and efficient as this is a key position in the Finance department looking after all financial aspects for costs. 

What you will be doing: 

• Your main responsibilities will include ensuring the integrity of the accounting records and process and controls are adhered to, managing all costs and capex and interface with FPA cost manager and leading, managing and motivating the team. 
• You will have excellent attention to detail and ideally have FSA experience but will have experience of colleague management. You will thrive on change, working to deadlines and achieving these as well as supporting other areas of the company, supporting FP&A in costs forecasting and DPD reporting and liaising with advisors on corporate and payroll taxes. 
• You will also be responsible for the Procurement and AP process, including broker commission payments and associated bank reconciliations. 
• Managing a team of three direct reports, you will have a passion for motivating, coaching and supporting others.  

Click here for more information on this role or to apply. 

Ogi – Service Operation Engineer

Company – Ogi 

Job Title – Service Operation Engineer

Location – Cardiff 

Contract – Full-Time

Salary – Competitive 

Description: 

Joining Ogi is a unique opportunity to work within an innovative Welsh business and one of the fastest-growing companies in Wales.

For many years, Ogi have been providing mainstream internet and IT services as Spectrum Internet and Net Support UK. The company rebranded to Ogi in 2021 to represent their dedication to Welsh communities and received a significant multi-million-pound investment to deliver a large-scale and ambitious rollout of full fibre internet across South Wales.

Ogi are looking to add to their Install Engineer crews across South Wales; working to ensure the delivery of assigned fibre installations.

What you’ll be doing:

This is a full-time field-based role where you’ll be responsible for all install activities; day to day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Installing fibre in customer business and residential premises
• Undertaking daily checks of vehicles, tools, equipment and PPE prior to leaving the depot.
• Ensuring the customer understands the use of the WIFI and various broadband devices installed within their premises
• Undertaking all job-specific risk assessments and method statements. Report and health & Safety incidents and ‘Near Misses.’
• Carrying out underground & overhead installations
•  Undertake small civils works
• Ensure the customer connection is made first time, every time and that the customer has service at the time of leaving their premises

Click here for more information on this role or to apply. 

Monmouthshire Building Society – Systems Engineer 

Company – Monmouthshire Building Society

Job Title – Systems Engineer 

Location – Head Office Newport / Cardiff City Centre with agile working

Contract – Fixed Term Contract for 6 months

Salary – £40,040.00 per annum 

Perks – Yes (Private healthcare optional from day 1, Generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme & more)

Description: 

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Monmouthshire Building Society’s  IT Operations Team for a Fixed Term Systems Engineer who will be able to work at both our Newport City Head Office\Cardiff Office with agile working opportunities (to include working from home) as well.

As a Systems Engineer, you will be part of exciting projects such as:

• Moving our on-site services to the cloud.
• Upgrading the Society’s authentication mechanisms.
• Assisting in enhancing our IT Disaster Recovery.
• Applying updates and patches to the Society servers, whilst also decommissioning legacy systems.
• Implementing new cloud-based technologies to enhance colleague and member experience.
• Maintaining the Society’s cloud managed firewall network.
• Providing support on the Society’s Robotics Process Automation systems.

Click here for more information on this role or to apply. 

LexisNexis Risk Solutions – Administrator

Company – LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Job Title – Administrator

Location – Cardiff 

Contract – Fixed Term Contract

Salary – Competitive 

Description: 

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a leader in providing essential information that helps customers across industries and governments predict, assess, and manage risk. Combining cutting-edge technology, unique data and advanced analytics, Risk Solutions provides products and services that address evolving client needs in the risk sector while upholding the highest standards of security and privacy. 

The administrator will be responsible for updating, monitoring and maintaining our data internally, this in turn improves the depth and accuracy of the business information reporting being produced. This reporting plays a fundamental role in driving better customer support and revenue growth. The role will provide an opportunity to help shape the controls and governance around data in our CRM and Billing systems.  

Responsibilities: 

• To conduct regular audit activity, reviewing records within our CRM & billing systems & taking corrective action where necessary.  
• By collaborating with stakeholders across departments, understand any changes that are pending, and by taking a proactive approach in designing and implementing a plan to minimise the impact on our data hygiene. 
• To build reporting capability to define and measure our success on an ongoing basis in managing our quality of data. 
• To provide administrative support to the wider business, including locating and storing of pricing and legal documents. 
• Utilising tools such as PowerBi & Excel to provide reporting to both internal and external customers around product usage and trending. 

Click here for more information on this role or to apply. 

Sero – DevOps Engineer

Company – Sero

Job Title – DevOps Engineer

Location – Cardiff 

Contract – Full-Time

Salary – £72k – £80k

Perks – Yes (healthcare with family & dental options, equity scheme & more)

Description: 

Sero are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to help scale their infrastructure. Sero are passionate about technology and are looking for a like-minded individual who wants to stay up to date and support our Software Engineering team in making sure their applications are secure, scalable and have robust pipelines.  

Working with Sero’s existing software engineering teams, you will be responsible for helping us improve and scale our infrastructure in GCP using IaC tools such as Terraform. Sero will ask you to stay up to date with the latest best practices and share knowledge with the rest of the team. Sero are always looking for better and more efficient ways of doing things which will apply to this role too. You will be asked to take the lead on infrastructure monitoring for all our applications and define what the base standard should look like. Sero are a growing organisation so will need you to be adaptable.  

You’ll be part of the software engineering community and Sero will ask you to share knowledge with others to make them more effective in their roles as well as investing time in your own self-development.  

To be successful in the job straight away you will need: 

• Experience working on Cloud Platforms (GCP/Azure or AWS), GCP experience would be an advantage 
• Experience of designing, deploying and maintaining Cloud environments consuming a range of Cloud services 
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines in GitLab 
• Demonstrable experience with continuous delivery and continuous deployment concepts 
• Hands-on experience supporting Software Engineers and Data Engineers automating coding standards 
• Very strong knowledge and understanding of securing environments and services in the cloud 
• In depth knowledge and understanding of DNS, certificates and networking
• Hands-on experience in writing and managing infrastructure-as-code, using tools such as Terraform 
• Hands-on experience in container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes  
• Experience of automation and scripting using tools such as Typescript or Python 
• Able to apply or enable the use of observability technologies like the Prometheus or the ELK stack 
• Exposure to iterative/agile development methodologies and experience of enabling team delivery through technology such as Confluence, JIRA and GitLab 
• Exposure to latest cloud technologies such as WAF’s, Gateways, VPN’s, VPC’s, organisational shared VPC’s and load balancers  

Click here for more information on this role or to apply. 

Hodge – Operational Resilience Manager

Company – Hodge

Job Title – Operational Resilience Manager

Location – Cardiff, hybrid 

Contract – Full-Time, Permanent 

Salary – Up to £75k

Perks – Yes (Subsidised Gym Membership, Private Medical & Health Insurance & more)

Description: 

Hodge are a financial services business focused on the retail savings, commercial lending and specialist residential mortgage markets.

Hodge are looking for a Senior Operational Resilience and Business Continuity Manager to develop and drive the delivery of a group wide operational resilience and business continuity framework, adhering to regulatory requirements whilst taking responsibility for tracking progress and managing key stakeholder relationships through to delivery.  The successful candidate will own the end to end cycle of Operational resilience inclusive of BCP, live events, testing and planning.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and own the Operational Resilience framework and Business Continuity Framework, including the ongoing assessment and testing activities to demonstrate and report on the ability to operate consistently within agreed impact tolerances.
• Work closely with the business to identify it’s important business services (IBS) and ensure that the IBS’s, associated mapping and processes remain current and impact tolerances are regularly reviewed.
• Define, implement, and take responsibility for effective monitoring and reporting of IBSs, associated risks and operational effectiveness.
• Ensure operational resilience risks are identified and reported and working with wider business stakeholders develop the necessary plans to address these risks (across Business Continuity, IT continuity, Cyber Security, Supply Chain and Change Management perspectives)
• Maintain the catalogue of important business services and the business components necessary to deliver them, driven by customer, regulatory and business ongoing viability considerations
• Develop, create and implement the operational resilience roadmap – which ensures that the residual risk is reduced to or maintained at an acceptable level. Manage delivery of roadmap against agreed milestones and target dates and ensure the roadmap is updated to reflect regulation, audit/assurance reports or key findings.
• Develop an annual testing schedule, considering a range of scenarios to test arrangements and recovery capabilities. Work with relevant stakeholders to ensure the schedule is delivered.
• Develop regular resilience reporting for the Operational Resilience Committee and Operational Risk Committee.
• Chair the Operational Resilience Committee Group, attended by senior stakeholders, with a primary focus on managing, monitoring, remediation, and continual improvement.
• Lead the co-ordination of Hodge’s response to a disruptive event or incident.
• Act as a subject matter expert across the group to share best practise, provide support and guidance and where appropriate support colleagues
• You will be a role model to your colleagues who can clearly be seen to live and breathe our Hodge values in your day to day interactions with them (Genuine Empathy, Trusted Expertise, Bold Flexibility).
• Comply with all company policies and procedures and legislative and regulatory requirements, including, but not exhaustively, those related to Data Protection, Money Laundering, Health & Safety, FSA, Employment and other legislative requirements (as applicable).
• Undertake any other reasonable tasks as and when requested.
• Develop and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of Compliance & Risk regulatory and legislative information related to Group products and services (e.g. PRA/FCA rules, Data Protection, Money Laundering, etc.), as advised by line management.
• Support the risk culture of the organisation by taking personal responsibility for identifying and managing risks in everything you do.

Click here for more information on this role or to apply. 

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