Recruitment Roundup – Featuring Monva, Currencycloud, ActiveQuote, Admiral, Principality, & Acquis Insurance Management

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 freshest jobs in Welsh FinTech.

Monva – Commercial Manager

Company – Monva

Job Title – Commercial Manager

Location – Wrexham

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Available

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – ” The Commercial Manager will drive forward our commercial partnerships and relationships. This role is a crucial hire for us and will play a pivotal part in making sure we drive revenue and maximise commercial opportunities.

As Commercial Manager you will have responsibility for Monva’s commercial relationships with product providers (credit cards, loans, energy) and identifying opportunities to extend our distribution through partnership, ensuring the development of both existing and new relationships in order to maximise revenue growth, improve profitability and enhance our reputation in the market.”

Responsibilities

• Create appointments, meet with product provider partners (banks, credit card companies, media agencies, affiliate partners, loan businesses), promote Monva as a valued distribution channel, and build long term relationships
• Focus on day-to-day performance delivering positive trading activity through commercial partnerships. You will have a keen eye on market dynamics and new product launches to identify commercial opportunities and have tenacity to win budget share of these products
• Ensure that Monva has the best possible coverage of available products to present to customers in each of the categories Monva serves
• Demonstrate excellent business development and relationship building skills
• Manage and report on Monva’s commercial pipeline using CRM software, creating regular partner performance reports for both internal and external consumption.
• Work closely with the board to deliver the commercial plan
• Handle commercial negotiations with partners
• Understand market trading conditions and industry developments and communicate to board
• Identify development opportunities with existing partners and emerging market entrants.
• Close collaboration with Product, Technology, Marketing, and Operations, amongst other departments
• Identify and recommend optimisation of our channels, influencing within a product labs environment to influence commercial change
• Operate within the values and mannerisms of the company

Apply on the Monva website here

Monva – Product Manager

Company – Monva

Job Title – Product Manager

Location – Wrexham

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Available

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “We’re looking for a commercially aware, customer and data-driven, results and outcome-oriented Product Manager who will help grow our business with a passion for building customer led solutions and creating and maintaining positive relationships.

You’re a T-shaped person who can adapt to the varying demands that a start-up brings. You will primarily have a passion for customer led b2c product management and owning the management and delivery of our roadmap, be equally at home with business analysis and mapping, comfortable playing a role within our daily scrum meetings, love diving into performance analytics and be willing to jump on a bit of testing when required.”

Responsibilities

• Lead on the delivery of Monva’s product roadmap, working with technology to deliver features
• Assist with creating and driving the product vision, roadmap and goals, all of which support the overall product strategy.
• Assist with the development of business cases and analysis for product investment
• Identify new opportunities that support product vision and strategy
• Focus on creating product specifications (requirements, user stories), working with others to deliver projects, wireframes, UI/UX, A/B test and defining product rollout strategies
• Collaborate with customers and partners to define the vision of the product and product roadmap
• Manage our customer development and product labs environment
• Conduct user acceptance testing
• Maintain a positive relationship with partners and internal stakeholders
• Review and interpret qualitative and quantitative data on customer usage patterns to uncover new insights to drive new product improvements
• Maintain a view on market trends and competitive best practices
• Operate within the values and mannerisms of the company

Apply on the Monva website here

Admiral – Test Automation Engineer

Company – Admiral

Job Title – Test Automation Engineer

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Experience Dependant

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “We have an opportunity for an experienced Test Automation Engineer to develop and manage test automation frameworks for a variety of applications within our Data and Analytics tribe.

You will work within the Data and Analytics tribe comprised of Developers, Engineers, Analysts and Data Scientists whose primary focus is to design and develop innovative technology solutions for a variety of internal stakeholders.”

Responsibilities

• Defining tools and frameworks to develop and maintain test automation
• Identification of test automation opportunities
• Work closely with the development team to define strategy and best practices
• Looking for opportunities to “Shift left” of testing and test automation
• Providing clear and accurate documentation for the tests and test automation
• Contributing towards the continuous improvement of testing and test automation practices
• Integrating automated tests with the CI/CD pipeline
• You will also be expected to keep your skills up to date by following advancements in testing and test automation.

Apply on the Admiral website here

ActiveQuote – Marketing Manager

Company – ActiveQuote

Job Title – Marketing Manager

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “We have an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Manager to join our team in Cardiff Bay. ActiveQuote provides Life, Health and Income Protection insurance advice to customers via a wide range of insurers, including Aviva, AXA, Bupa, Vitality, AIG, L&G to name but a few.”

Responsibilities

• Establish, develop, implement and manage the vision and strategy for the marketing function to support the overall objectives
• Production of the marketing content and communications strategies that align with the marketing goals and objectives
• Leading the Company’s online presence via the website and social media
• Own and develop email as a key marketing channel for both new and existing customers
• Provide reporting and analysis on ROI
• Development and execution of sales lead generation campaigns and existing customer cross sell opportunites
• Identifying new routes to market by collaborating with wider business teams to ensure we are optimising our digital presence for optimal product marketing.
• To constantly display and encourage ActiveQuote company values of Integrity, unity, innovation and passion

Apply on the ActiveQuote website here

Principality Building Society – Business Intelligence Developer

Company – Principality Building Society

Job Title – Business Intelligence Developer

Location – Cardiff

Salary – £35,000

Contract – Full-Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “The purpose of this role is to undertake development including projects, small changes, product maintenance and CI or Support. The role demands good working relationships with colleagues both in IT and Business Change, a strong customer focus and good communication skills.”

Responsibilities

• Play an active role in grouping product backlog items as part of delivery planning
• Provide warranty support for releases
• To work as part of a team of developers, ensuring team deliverables are on time and fit for purpose.
• To provide development support and to liaise with both colleagues and third parties to deliver on Society objectives to timescales and/or Service Level Agreements (SLA) agreements

• To ensure high quality of software, ensuring the team adhere to required standards. Ensure that code and peer reviews are undertaken.

• To act to resolve issues which are flagged, in order that few and only critical issues are escalated to line management
• Promote Principality Building Society (PBS) Agile and ensure best practices are employed by the team with a view to continuous improvement.
• Provide realistic story/task estimates based on 3-point estimation with improved accuracy.
• Set and meet sprint commitment based on resource availability of PBS Agile delivery team
• Work efficiently and effectively with Business Change (BA/QA) as part of each sprint.
• Attend sprint retrospectives to discuss issues with a view to continuous improvement via agreed actions.

Apply on the Principality Building Society website here

Acquis Insurance Management – Customer Service Advisor – Spanish / Portuguese / Norwegian/ French/German speakers

Company – Acquis Insurance Management

Job Title – Customer Service Advisor – Spanish / Portuguese / Norwegian/ French/German speakers

Location – Newport

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Available

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – “As a Customer Service Advisor, you will be the primary contact and service provider for our clients and their customers within the UK and Europe. You will be responsible for ensuring quality operational services are delivered to all our business partners and associates.“ 

Responsibilities

The Customer Service Advisor will evaluate and settle insurance claims within the delegated limits of authority, ensuring that customers receive an exceptional service and ensuring that FCA, Programme Insurers and Acquis complaints procedures are followed.

Apply on the Acquis website here

Currencycloud – Compliance Analyst

Company – Currencycloud

Job Title – Compliance Analyst

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Unspecified

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Remote Working – Yes

Perks – Yes

Description – “As a Compliance Analyst you will assist with the day-to-day running of the Transaction Monitoring systems, ensuring that Compliance risks are adequately identified, assessed, monitored, controlled and reported as required.”

Responsibilities

• Responsible for day to day transaction monitoring, identifying any potentially fraudulent or suspicious activity
• Analyse payment and compliance data from multiple sources to identify trends and patterns
• Proactively escalate urgent cases to the MLRO/DMLRO for further review
• Conduct screening on PEPs and sanctioned entities and investigate potential hits
• Support data-protection compliance
• Work across teams and departments to proactively identify and resolve operational compliance queries
• Complete Compliance administration (such as keeping client records up to date) as required
• Review effectiveness of current monitoring rules and settings and provide feedback on ways to optimise
• Continuously review current processes and suggest improvements to the processes as well as systems used
• 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

Apply on the Currencycloud 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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