Recruitment Roundup – June 23rd 2021

Welcome 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.

Hodge Bank – Compliance Officer 

Company – Hodge Bank 

Job Title – Compliance Officer 

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Closing date – 2nd July 2021 

Description:

The role holder will be responsible for a full range of activities, including – monitoring and reviewing business activity, policies and procedures, acting in an advisory capacity, horizon scanning (new regulatory requirements) and change development projects.

This role reports directly to the Compliance Manager and is positioned in the organisations second line of defence Risk & Compliance team.

Responsibilities: 

• To review, update and maintain second line compliance policies and procedures to ensure that they reflect current regulatory requirements and are communicated clearly to all staff.
• To keep up to date with all regulatory and industry best practice developments and changes to appropriately support and inform the business of the necessary change.
• To monitor all aspects of the business regulatory obligations and adherence to these through the effective delivery and completion of the Compliance Assurance Plan (CAP).
• To support and influence colleagues in relation to their direct compliance responsibilities.
• To provide guidance on regulation and key policy controls to ensure that Hodge are doing the right thing and consistently treating customers fairly.
• To work with others to identify areas for improvement and simplify processes to use fewer resources and add greater value as well as be flexible to changing priorities.
• To collate, analyse and prepare compliance data for Internal Board committees and following up on any issues identified.
• To play an active part in the delivery and promotion of all Compliance Awareness training to all Hodge staff.
• To provide support to the Compliance Manager and HR function, with the administration of the Senior Management & Certification Regime (SM&CR).
• To respond quickly and appropriately to warning signs of things going wrong and provide a decisive response to challenges.

For more information on this role or to apply on Hodge Bank’s website, click here 

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group (RSG) – Software Engineer Lead 

Company – Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions 

Job Title – Software Engineer Lead

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time

Perks – Yes

Description:

LexisNexis Risk Solutions are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Lead with a strong development background, to lead a new development team based at their office in Cardiff Bay (remote start, due to current conditions).

This role requires a strong technologist with excellent leadership skills. The focus will be on quickly establishing and nurturing a new team as they launch development delivering exciting new features, with opportunity to contribute technical expertise and to step in and get hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Leading a development team as they efficiently deliver features and exciting capabilities (teams are roughly 4 – 8 members in size)
• Working closely with the Product Owner to ensure that the teams remain closely synchronised and upcoming features are well prepared for
• Contributing to the strong design of new features and solutions
• Guiding development and delivery of features across the full stack – including use of cloud services, modern PHP frameworks, front-end frameworks, HPCC (our big data platform, training provided) and other tools
• Mentoring and development of team members, ensuring they have the support required to achieve their full potential
• Contributing to the development of a diverse and talented team, identifying and supporting initiatives to grow our team and support the progression of team members
• Promoting strong collaboration between teams, sharing best practice and helping clear potential blockers as you see them

Apply on the LexisNexis Risk Solutions website here 

Principality Building Society – Executive Pa to CEO and Chair

Company – Principality Building Society

Job Title – Executive PA to CEO and Chair

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – £28,000 +

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Closing Date – 28 June 2021

Description:

Reporting directly to Julie-Ann Haines, our CEO, the Executive Personal Assistant will work closely with Julie- Ann and The Chair to provide administrative and organisational support with discretion and confidentiality, acting as the initial point of contact both internally and externally. Ensuring Julie-Ann and the Chair make the best use of their time when in the office, and when away from the office ensure all queries are responded to as necessary.

This is a broad role where duties and responsibilities span a wide spectrum, from administration right the way through to supporting strategy through research and supporting effective presentations and communication.

Responsibilities:

• Support projects and initiatives at the highest level with confidentiality and discretion, including drafting reports, presentations and communications – working closely with functional areas of the business to convey the style and messaging of the CEO.
• Attend meetings with and for the CEO, following up on agreed actions and decisions.
• Maintain and update the Action Log for Boards and Committees that the CEO attends, organising any follow up activity required to enable timely closure of actions.
• Extensive diary management including organisation and coordination of a number of internal and external set-piece meetings/events throughout the year.
• Email and correspondence management, including complaints, liaison for all Director level complaints from receipt to closure.
• Coordinate and provide cover for the Executive PA team where appropriate/required, ensuring minimal business disruption for the Executive team.
• Mentoring & Support of both internal and external PAs, developing trust, teamwork and reliability.
• Chair the PA team huddles, holding regular meetings to ensure effective communication and share knowledge and best practice.
• Contribute to the function as a member of the leadership team, communicating with the Key stakeholders to provide support as and when required.

Apply on the Principality Building Society’s website here

Sonovate – Operations Data Analyst 

Company – Sonovate

Job Title – Operations Data Analyst 

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time

Perks – Yes (Cyclescheme, Bupa Health Insurance & more)

Description:

The main purpose of this role will be to create and maintain an end-to-end operational planning and performance capability enabling Sonovate to manage its operational resources in the most efficient and effective manner, ensuring supply and demand are balanced in the short, medium and long term. Additionally, you will be working closely with the Operational Support Manager and team managers across multiple departments to ensure that Sonovate have the right number of the right people, in the right place, doing the right thing at the right time.

Responsibilities:

• You will be expected to use trend and seasonality information to create accurate short and medium-term forecasts (supply and demand) and performance outlook.
• Ensuring all sources of operational demand are understood and measured.
• Analysis of demand and creation of insightful management information to drive recommendations on how demand can be reduced and/or better managed.
• Evaluation of the impact of future changes (technology, process, policy, markets, regulation) on the amount and type of demand.
• Create capacity plan for operations based on demand, arrival profile, activity time, re-work and shrinkage that allows Sonovate to hit its agreed operational KPIs/SLAs within budget.
• Make recommendations about job design / team design / multi-skilling that enables the smoothing of demand/supply across all of Sonovate’s operational teams.
• Ensure that appropriate management information is available to show performance against Sonovate’s operational KPIs/SLAs
• Use continuous improvement techniques (run charts, control limits, trend analysis) to make recommendations to the Operations management on opportunities for performance improvement through reduction of variation.
• Analyse, interpret, monitor, and report service trends and adherence making recommendations to team managers to drive improvements.
• Make recommendations to the Operations management on the evolution of operational KPIs/SLAs ensuring that we “measure what matters” and act on the system.
• Ensuring that regular KPI reports are submitted on time.

For more information on this role or to apply click here 

Active Quote – Marketing Manager 

Company – Active Quote

Job Title – Marketing Manager

Location – Cardiff Bay

Salary – £40,000 – £45,000

Contract – Full Time

Perks – Yes 

Description:

As ActiveQuote’s Marketing Manager, you will have a hands-on role which is responsible for helping shape, build and deploy ActiveQuote’s marketing strategy. A key element to this role will be creating engaging and relevant customer content that supports different marketing projects such as; customer education, brand confidence, social campaigns, customer lifetime value as well as increasing Active Quote’s presence and awareness within the Personal Insurance industry. 

As Marketing Manager, you will lead strategic and operational decisions for key stakeholders whilst closely managing projects and campaigns to ensure successful delivery and demonstrable results. The right person will therefore have a strategic thought process along with a pragmatic “get things done” approach to their role.

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 opportunities
• 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 Active Quote’s website here 

Coincover – Head of Engineering

Company – Coincover

Job Title – Head of Engineering

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time

Perks – Yes (bonus scheme, flexible/remote work & more)

Description:

Coincover are looking for a Head of Engineering 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.  

Responsibilities:

• Taking responsibility for the Engineering team and its activities including development, testing, deployment and infrastructure 
• Leading technical design and implementations strategy and driving effective decision making 
• Owning the engineering practices, policies, guidelines and any associated documentation 
• Driving continual improvement and team excellence in an agile and collaborative environment 
• Supporting the sales and customer success teams in customer facing activities providing technical knowledge and support 
• Providing and managing support technical and engineering support for clients and services 
• Maintaining, monitoring and tracking systems, services and uptime, ensuring timely resolutions to issues 
• Managing backlogs or working with product owners to ensure work is clearly defined and aligned with business objectives and scoped with effective team estimation
• Managing technical delivery, code management and maintenance throughout the lifetime of the technical estate effectively controlling technical debt 
• Effectively working with the wider business and leadership teams ensuring that engineering activities and road maps are transparent and communicated effectively to the business as a whole 
• Preparing, managing and tracking the annual engineering budget and forecasts of all operational and capital expenditure, rolling these activities up to the Financial Controller 

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

Confused.com – ECRM Marketing Assistant

Company – Confused.com

Job Title – ECRM Marketing Assistant

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time

Perks – Yes

Description:

Confused.com has a very exciting entry-level role going in its award-winning marketing department.

You will need some digital marketing experience, and some experience in email marketing would be an advantage, but isn’t a requirement as confused.com are offering full training and support.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll be joining Confused.com’s dynamic and award-winning Marketing team of around 70 people. The ECRM team itself is currently 7.
• You’ll learn about the ECRM team strategy and how it’s used to build effective email, SMS, Push Notifications and Custom Audience campaigns.
• You’ll play a key role in planning and managing email campaigns.
• You will be digging into customer behavioural and performance data to find opportunities to improve campaigns.
• You’ll work with other teams within the marketing department to come up with new and creative ways of improving the performance of emails aimed at both new and existing customers.
• You’ll use data to identify opportunities to cross-sell our range of products, all the while taking into consideration your new knowledge of marketing preferences and best practice.
• You’ll optimise existing campaigns with frequent A/B testing of subject lines, time of send and content as well as reporting on email performance.
• You’ll create and test website landing pages that support our email campaigns.

Apply on Confused.com’s website here 

Wealthify – Automation Tester

Company – Wealthify 

Job Title – Automation tester

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – Competitive salary up to £45,000

Contract – Full Time

Perks – Yes (Annual bonus, Private Medical Insurance & more)

Description:

You’ll be working as a software tester in a cross-functional squad of designers, product, and engineers, to deliver both manual and automated tests to ensure quality and performance standards are maintained. Wealthify release frequently through continuous delivery, so automated tests are essential. You will be free to implement new tools and processes, and help to establish and develop a robust, modern test framework.

Ideally you will be familiar with cloud environments (we’re hosted on Azure), agile and DevOps practices, but if not, there is opportunity to learn.

Attributes (Wealthify encourage candidates to apply even if they don’t tick all of these boxes):

• Experience as a software tester with a solid understanding of test automation
• Good analysis and problem-solving skills
• Effective communicator
• Attention to detail
• Advocate of code quality, clean code, and best practice
• Familiarity with automation testing tools (including UI automation, API testing, Mocking, Performance testing etc.)
• Experience using test management tools (tracking, reporting)
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or cross functional teams
• Ability to review and interpret code (JavaScript, .NET C#)
• Understanding of DevOps practices (CI & CD)
• Familiarity of Cloud environments (e.g., Azure)

Apply on the Wealthify website here

Admiral – Senior Tax Accountant

Company – Admiral

Job Title – Senior Tax Accountant 

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time

Perks – Yes (flexible hours)

Description:

Based in the Group Tax team in Cardiff, the Senior Tax Accountant will support the Head of Tax and assist with UK, overseas and Group tax matters at Admiral. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to make a move to join a growing, dynamic in-house tax team and broaden their tax skill-set. The role is suitable for a 3-5 year post qualified Tax Adviser.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation, reconciliation and review of tax schedules, calculations and disclosure notes for year end Group reporting.
• Liaising with external advisors for the planning, preparation and timely submission of the corporate tax returns.
• Annual reconciliation and posting of corporate tax charges for the Group.
• Assistance with transfer pricing documentation and policies.
• Assistance with SAO documentation and submissions.
• Managing Corporate Criminal Offence legislation obligations.
• Preparation of UK VAT and IPT calculations and return submissions.
• Providing tax support to overseas business and other operational departments.
• Mentoring, coaching and liaising junior members of the tax and finance team.
• Supporting Head of Tax with other ad hoc advisory work.

Click here to apply for this role or here to discover more of the latest jobs from Admiral 

Backbase – IT Support Engineer

Company – Backbase

Job Title – IT Support Engineer

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description:

As an IT Support Engineer, you work in a team of motivated, driven, and fun IT professionals within a young, growing organisation and get a chance to provide the first line of support for our 1000+ end users globally.

Attributes:

• You have a minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role
• You have working knowledge of Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems
• You are able to troubleshoot, resolve and apply workarounds on different ICT hardware devices, laptops, cameras, printers, IP phones/PBX and meeting room equipment
• You have familiarity with Atlassian products (Jira/Confluence) and with Google workspaces
• You have a degree or professional recognition in a relevant discipline and equivalent experience
• Having working knowledge of scripting languages is a plus
• You have a good English level, written and spoken
• You have fundamental knowledge of Apple operating systems;
• You have a fundamental understanding of TCP/IP networking, proxies, SSL, LDAP
• You have experience with any ticketing system
• You have an innovative, strong problem-solving skills and adaptability to new processes and procedures quickly, while dealing with many varied technical support requests and challenges
• Extra awesome, but not a must: Experience with JAMF

Apply on Backbase’s website here

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