Recruitment Roundup – 6th January 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.

Sero – Data Engineer

Company – Sero

Job Title – Data Engineer

Location – Cardiff 

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – £50,000 per annum

Perks – Yes (6% pension contribution, healthcare with family & dental options & more)

Description: 

Sero are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help them expand and optimise their data estate and build a greenfield Data Lake, Sero are looking for someone who is passionate about data and technology.  This role will support the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products, taking the opportunity to build upon the current data architecture to support the next generation of products and initiatives.

What Sero will be asking you to do: 

Bring your experience in Data Lake, Datamart and Data Warehouse development to help Sero on their data journey. Using your experience as a Data Engineer Sero  will be looking for you to optimise their existing data systems and build out new systems from the ground up ingesting data from multiple data streams. The Data Engineering team will support Sero’s Software Engineers, Architects, Analysts and Data Scientists on multiple initiatives to ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects.  

 You will help support the creation and maintenance of multiple data pipelines and operational data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements. 

Sero  will be asking you to contribute to the building of the infrastructure needed for optimal transformation and loading of data from a vast range of data sources including but not limited to IoT services and multiple ETL ingestions using GCP technologies.

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

•  Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of data modelling & data transformation
•  Exposure to configuring GCP network and security infrastructure
•  Participation in developing GCP IaC using terraform
•  An understanding of DevOps software delivery and CI/CD processes, especially on GitLab [or similar]
•  Experience with SQL, Apache Beam/GCP DataFlow, Go or Python
•  Experience with ETL tools
•  Awareness of integrating/interfacing with REST/GQL APIs
•  Exposure to GCP cataloguing or GCP Dataplex
•  Experience with GCP Workflows
•  Experience with reading and understanding high-level technical designs
•  Working in an Agile/Kanban environment

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

Shoal – Marketing Technology (MarTech) Mobile Apps Marketing Specialist

Company – Shoal

Job Title – Marketing Technology (MarTech) Mobile Apps Marketing Specialist

Location – Central London location, hybrid working available

Contract – Full-time 

Salary – Competitive 

Description: 

Shoal is an early stage start-up, backed and funded by SC Ventures (SCV), the innovation unit of Standard Chartered Bank.

The Marketing Technology (MarTech) Mobile Apps Marketing Specialist is a key role within the marketing and growth team and will drive the performance of marketing technology tools within the Shoal MarTech stack.

Critical tools for this role are:

• Braze > content and marketing messaging automation
• Amplitude > product analytics
• AppsFlyer > affiliate marketing measurement
• Segment > CDP

With the Shoal app launching in Q1/2023 on Apple App Store and Google Play Store, Shoal are looking for a proactive, data driven MarTech specialist to help them implement a data driven strategy and get the best out of the existing stack.

This is a varied and exciting role that will suit an agile and resourceful MarTech specialist, dedicated to data and optimisation, ideally with an interest in sustainability and a passion to make a positive impact in the world.

The role spans across data strategy design, MarTech implementation and ongoing management / optimisation of the stack.

If you are interested or would like more information on this role, please email [email protected] for an introduction to Shoal. 

Shoal – Digital Content & Marketing Manager

Company – Shoal

Job Title – Marketing Technology (MarTech) Mobile Apps Marketing Specialist

Location – Central London location, hybrid working available

Contract – Full-time 

Salary – Competitive 

Description: 

The Digital Content & Marketing Manager will be responsible for content creation, publishing and measurement on our key marketing channels. These include social media platforms, email and web.

Understanding of mobile app marketing is advantageous, as Shoal’s services are accessible only through mobile app.

With the Shoal app launching in Q1/2023, we are looking for a proactive, creative and digitally savvy marketer to help us grow our user base and engage our audiences with a constant drumbeat of content on Shoal’s channels.

This is a varied and exciting role that will suit a proactive digital content and marketing professional with a keen interest in sustainability and a passion to make a positive impact in the world.

The role spans across two key areas: digital content creation and digital marketing management:

• Digital Content Creation
• Digital Marketing Management

Minimum experience level:

• Figma / Canva
• Mailchimp / Prefinery
• WordPress
• Social media platform particularly LinkedIn and Instagram/Facebook
• Meta Business Manager

If you are interested or would like more information on this role, please email [email protected] for an introduction to Shoal. 

Currencycloud – Account Manager

Company – Currencycloud

Job Title – Account Manager

Location – Cardiff 

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – Competitive

Perks – Yes (comprehensive learning and development resources,  comprehensive health care that includes annual optical and dental allowances & more)

Description: 

Account Managers are paramount to driving the Currencycloud revenue engine strategy and are responsible for the development of strong commercial relationships. They own the commercial relationships throughout the customer lifecycle and drive sustainable revenue growth across a portfolio of clients to help meet and exceed revenue targets of our dynamic and scaling SaaS-focussed business.

YOU will be responsible for up-sell, cross-sell and renewal activity across a portfolio of clients; partnering up with Customer Success Managers to develop account strategies that enhance sentiment, protect against high-risk churn, co-designing success plans and developing strategies to increase product adoption and satisfaction.

The Details:

• Expertly manage a sales pipeline of expansion opportunities to achieve and exceed the goals of the business
• Develop a deep understanding of the problems clients experience, the impact of these problems, and how our technology and new products can be a solution for them
• Build strong relationships with key senior client contacts
• Forecast revenue and opportunities accurately

Skills Knowledge & Expertise:

• 3+ years Sales/Account Management experience selling technology solutions to Banks and/or Fintechs in the Payments or SaaS industry
• Proven success in consistently generating revenue and exceeding quota by identifying, qualifying, and closing revenue opportunities
• Confident using Salesforce
• Experience in working in an Agile working structure
• Ability to identify areas to up-sell/cross-sell
• A leadership mindset and mentality

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

Backbase – Scrum Master

Company – Backbase

Job Title – Scrum Master

Location – Cardiff 

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – Competitive

Perks – Yes (hybrid working, training & development oppportunities & more)

Description: 

You will work with Backbase’s highly skilled and diverse teams to deliver a product that is used by millions of people around the world, improve existing elements, and try new technologies.

In this role, you will demonstrate your expert knowledge of Agile methodologies in a way that fosters creation within Backbase’s high performing teams. You will rock backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, task definition, decision making and use JIRA.

As a part of Scrum teams you will collaborate with software developers, UX designers, test engineers, technical writers and support engineers. Within your team you are much more than a Scrum Master-you are a pioneer, a mentor, an expert, a magician, an apprentice and a guardian but above all, an outstanding human.

Who you are:

• You are a highly organized, thorough and motivated professional that understands the importance of being a strong team player and leader;
• You are living & breathing Agile, and bring the experience to prove it;
• You are used to delivering software in a multi-team, multi-location product organisation.

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

Acquis – Underwriter

 

 

Company – Acquis

Job Title – Underwriter

Location – Newport

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – Competitive

Perks – Yes (Company Pension Scheme – 5% employee and employer contributions, Private Medical Healthcare & more)

Description: 

Acquis is looking for an underwriter who can reinforce the technical capabilities of the Product & Underwriting team and whose underwriting and insurance sector experience can contribute towards realising Acquis’ ambitious growth strategy. This role requires an analytical mindset with the capability to distil precise proposals from abstract concepts, ensure that commercial opportunities are accurately qualified in line with Acquis’ underwriting guidelines, and to act as a leading point of technical expertise.

Key Accountabilities:

• Partner effectively with the Commercial function to secure Acquis’ financial objectives: translating requirements into proposals and supporting Sales in converting prospects into clients
• Contribute towards executing the underwriting strategy for each of Acquis’ products: increasing revenue whilst ensuring that underwriting profitability is maintained
• Assess and, where necessary, escalate non-standard underwriting proposals in a timely manner
• Coordinate with Partnerships to ensure that all insurer documentation is duly maintained, and that any Product documentation is created, issued and verified in accordance with KPIs
• Provide expert guidance on all aspects of Product engineering to clients, prospects, partners, and the wider business
• Support the Head of Product & Underwriting and collaborate with commercial, technical and operational business units to identify, research and evaluate opportunities to develop new and existing products
• Support the implementation and development of technical and operational mechanisms to enhance the effectiveness of Product & Underwriting and the wider business
• Work closely with all departments to contribute towards the execution of corporate and departmental objectives and projects.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience Required:

• Experience in underwriting, preferably in the UK or EU general insurance market
• Technical mindset with an analytical approach to problem solving and strong attention to detail
• Ability to effectively identify, assess and challenge risk
• Proficiency in data interrogation, analysis and presentation
• Strong numerical reasoning skills are essential
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Microsoft Excel
• Ability to evaluate technical wording, e.g., policy clauses and conditions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the capability to prioritise a dynamic workload of tasks/requests appropriately
• Ability to build rapport with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Formal insurance qualification/s (e.g., CertCI) would be beneficial
• Fluency in an additional European language is desirable but not essential.

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

Chetwood Financial – Data Scientist

Company – Chetwood Financial

Job Title – Data Scientist

Location – Wrexham / London / Hybrid  

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – Up to £50k p/a

Perks – Yes (life insurance, private medical insurance including dental and optical & more)

Description: 

Chetwood’s Data Scientists are provided with the opportunity to join a cutting-edge Data Science team and gain a breadth of hands-on experience in a wide range of data, model development, and business intelligence topics. The data science team owns the approach to analyse Chetwood data, the implementation of Chetwood’s portfolio management tools, including customer analytics and reporting technologies.

You will lead the development of advanced analytics models to deliver best-in-class customer experiences, including credit risk management, customer operations, marketing, collections, recoveries and potential investments. You will provide high quality analysis, insight and guidance to the Exco and present your recommendations at governance committees.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of advanced statistical models, leveraging Machine Learning AI, Random Forest, Regression, Linear Models, Neural Networks and Python LightGBM methods
• Line Management of junior colleagues in data and analysis 
• Stakeholder Management – work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and elaborate these from business level to data level
• Risk Analytics – Consult with the risk team on PDs, Pricing, Credit Limit settings & IFRS9
• Ensuring data integrity, documentation, validation, stability and controls are in place for all data elements used within the modelling and live production of the model outputs

Key Skills and Experience:

• Experience within Data Analytics and/or Credit Risk Modelling
• Advanced in Python, SQL, Github, Docker and AWS Sagemaker
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to question, shape, analyse, understand and explain to a range of technical and non-technical audiences
• Passionate about mentoring and developing people, be a great team-player
• Expert knowledge and understanding of data science principles
• Solid working knowledge of credit risk analytics and behavioral data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and, at the same time, support the wider project team as needed
• Experienced in building Statistical and/or Machine Learning models to a high specification
• Masters or PhD Degree level education in a STEM subject

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

Sonovate – Credit Controller

Company – Sonovate

Job Title – Credit Controller

Location – Cardiff

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – Competitive

Perks – Yes

Description: 

Sonovate are looking for a talented Credit Controller to play an important role, ensuring that money that is owed is collected within the agreed time frames, minimising the risk of non-payment and aged debt. You will do this by building and maintaining efficient and professional relationships with your stakeholders. You will need to be naturally proactive and super organised from the get-go.

This opportunity is so much more than your standard Credit controller opportunity – you will be exposed to the full credit cycle, elements of wider finance, account management and customer Service. Providing you with a much broader skill set and experience.

On a day to day basis you can expect to:

• Manage and be responsible for own ledger of a minimum 300 end debtors, of mid to low complexity
• Develop commercial relationships with the customer base and internal stakeholders
• Work within the agreed credit control structure and processes ensuring the profitability of Sonovate through efficient and effective credit control
• Escalate issues via the appropriate channels and relevant applications (e.g CRM)
• Managing invoice disputes and orchestrating relevant corrections
• Daily cash allocation within agreed timescales
• Undertake account reconciliations to ensure accuracy across your ledger
• Management of own CRM tickets and personal emails
• Proactively monitor insured limits with customer base, and highlighting any concerns to the business
• Manage any bespoke invoice requirements for your customer base

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 / hybrid

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – Competitive

Perks – Yes (28 days Holiday with the option to buy more, Private Medical & Health Insurance & more)

Description: 

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 managing and observing your team interacting with our customers and carrying out their role. We would expect you to look for opportunities to coach when the needed arises, for example after observations of meeting, 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 our 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 our customers.

What Hodge needs from you:

• Strong experience of creating high colleague engagement and leading people through significant change programmes.
• Experience within leading and coaching a team with a mortgage product
• Strong coach and people developer
• Experience of using performance management tools to drive a high-performance culture
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Attention to detail with excellent literacy and good numerical skills.
• Able to follow procedures and work within a regulated environment.
• Excellent Office 365 skills and a good understanding of computerised administration and workflow systems.

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

Wagonex – Partner Operations Associate

Company – Wagonex

Job Title – Partner Operations Associate

Location – Cardiff 

Contract – Full-time, Permanent

Salary – Competitive

Perks – Yes (25 days annual leave, hybrid working & more)

Description: 

This is a new role reporting to the Head of Partner Operations, to assist with day-to-day handling of partners. You will be the go-to person for any platform issues or queries our partners have whilst using the platform.

Assisting Head of Partner Operations with onboarding some exciting new partners, and project managing new third party integrations.

You will also be able to take responsibility for building out partner reporting and streamlining existing processes.

Main Tasks of Job:

• Assist Head of Partner Operations with the day-to-day management of partner enquiries. Raising any reported bugs with the Development Team.
• Liaise with Customer Service and Insurance Teams to resolve partner issues.
• Assisting Head of Partner Operations with onboarding of new partners
• Assist with monthly partner reporting, including partner performance
• Approving vehicles uploaded by partners and general Platform management
• Assist with researching and project managing the implementation of third party integrations that benefit our platform partners.
• Work with Finance Team for monthly partner invoicing

Requirements and skills:

• A commercial and analytical mindset – with experience of managing partners
• Strong communication at all levels
• Highly organised, ability to plan and prioritise a number of tasks to deliver results in time.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently as required.

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

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