The FinTech Wales Recruitment Roundup – June 16th 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.

Active Quote – Business Analyst

Company – ActiveQuote

Job Title – Business Analyst

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – Working as a Business Analyst within the DevOps Department, you will manage the delivery of our IT Development Roadmap. You will provide BA support on projects and act as a liaison between the business and IT, gathering requirements, mapping processes and implementing change.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and outline challenges, opportunities and solutions for the business
• Owning the Development Roadmap, collaborating with the Senior Management Team to ensuring it aligns with the business’ strategy
• Gathering business requirements for projects, creating compelling user experiences, detailed user stories, process maps and non-functional requirements
• Responsible for delivering concurrent projects to a high standard and on time
• Championing best practices in the software development lifecycle, governance and business analysis activities
• To aspire to the company values of Integrity, Unity, Innovation and Passion

Apply on the Active Quote website here

Wealthify – Automation Tester 

Company – Wealthify

Job Title – Automation Tester

Location – Penarth

Salary – Competitive salary up to £45,000

Flexible Working – Yes, remote working

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

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.

Attributes 

• 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

Trust Payments – Middle IT Technician 

Company – Trust Payments

Job Title – Middle IT Technician

Location – Bangor

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Yes

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – Working as part of the IT Helpdesk team, who are the primary point of contact for staff seeking assistance with company IT systems and services as well as being responsible for the installation and configuration of computer hardware and software within the company.

Responsibilities 

• Providing support to users and being the first point of contact for error reporting
• Installing and configuring hardware and software components to ensure usability
• Troubleshoot and repair or replace computer systems, hardware, and computer peripherals. This will include liaising with third party suppliers
• Upgrading the entire PC system to enable compatible software on all computers
• Installing and upgrading anti-virus software to ensure security at the user level
• Performing tests and evaluations of new software and hardware
• Undertaking training of staff for new systems or procedures. Writing training materials and self-help guides
• Promoting the Helpdesk Self Help portal and ensuring its content is relevant and current
• Assist the training of Junior IT Technicians, sharing best practices and approach to give excellent customer support
• Championing excellent relationships with all departments and colleagues
• Managing technical documentation
• Serve as the first point of contact for staff seeking technical assistance over the phone or email.
• Maintain hardware inventory data and system
• Server room organisation and maintenance work (server rack mounting, UPS installation, network and power cable runs etc.) including generator and air conditioning maintenance.

Apply on the Trust Payments website here 

Coincover – Head of Commercial 

Company – Coincover

Job Title – Product Marketing Manager

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Available

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – As Head of Commercial you’ll be a driving force at Coincover and their growth plans for Crypto Currency Safety. You’ll be responsible for Sales, Customer Success and Marketing and will accelerate Coincover’s aspirations to introduce their products and services to new audiences and expand existing portfolios and relationships.

Responsibilities

• Defining and Implementing the sales strategy to meet Coincover’s commercial targets and business growth plans
• Supporting and leading Sales, Marketing and Customer Success to meet and exceed Coincover’s sales targets
• Working with a broad range of prospective cryptocurrency partners and an internal team
• Working with the Head of Product to identify new markets and products and present commercial strategies to develop commercial performance
• Refining Coincover’s existing sales focussed processes ensuring they are being used effectively, including their CRM
• Identifying ways to align Coincover’s sales strategy with their Customer Success Strategy in order to achieve mutually beneficial results for both Coincover and their customers
• Working with the Operations and leading the Customer Success team to ensure a seamless transition for the customer from the sales stages through to the onboarding process and beyond
• Working with Data and Insights Analyst and Head of Product to understand Coincover’s sales data, trends and future opportunities
• Working with the Operations and leading the Customer Success team to ensure existing partner relationships are nurtured and supporting in identifying business development opportunities
• Tailoring support and communication to prospective clients to help them understand the potential and benefits of our products and services and in turn, how they can support their business and sales aspirations
• Leading the Marketing team to support our customers’ sales and retention targets
• A Key player on the Senior Leadership Team providing insights and knowledge of the market and customers

Apply on the Coincover website here 

Currencycloud – Data Analyst

Company – Currencycloud

Job Title – Data Analyst

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Full Time

Perks – Yes

Description – As a Data Analyst, you will support the Compliance Team in becoming a truly data-led department. Currencycloud are looking for someone who is self-driven, highly analytical, enjoys problem-solving, and is comfortable working on concurrent projects. This role reports to the Insights Manager.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and communicate reports and dashboards to track the Compliance department’s key performance indicators against objectives/targets
• Doing deep-dive analysis of data to both test specific hypothesis and generate new business insights
• Present data to stakeholders & management in a clear and easy to comprehend manner, by using the appropriate visualisation tools
• Continuously seek ways to enhance and/or automate existing reporting and processes to fit with evolving business needs
• Work with stakeholders to scope & prioritise ad hoc data requests

Apply on the Currencycloud website here

Hodge Bank – MI Reporting Lead 

Company – Hodge Bank

Job Title – MI Reporting Lead

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Permanent, Full Time

Perks – Yes

Description – As MI Reporting Lead you will be developing MI and reporting solutions to support our third-party relationships and internal committees and forums. You will be using your proven experience in this area to develop several key reports using Hodge Bank’s existing BI suite of data services and tools. The outputs you will be developing will streamline and improve their current report suite to ensure that Hodge Bank are providing continuous first-class reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and evolve the group monthly Management Information suite of reporting to support the performance and risk management of the organisation
• Ensure that SLAs are met for providing regular reports and ensure that accuracy and data quality of output is maintained
• Work closely with our Third-Party Manager to ensure that Hodge Bank’s high service level is maintained when providing regular MI reporting and automated data feeds to their third parties
• Design automated mechanisms to produce reports, minimising manual effort where possible
• Provide technical expertise and support to the report owners across the business
• Work with the wider BI team to ensure reporting outputs are consistent with other data services (Power BI Analytics & Data Extracts)
• Work with key stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, and work with the wider BI team to build datasets to support the production of reports
• Conduct testing and troubleshooting
• Develop and update appropriate supporting documentation

Apply on the Hodge Bank website here

Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group (RSG) – Full Stack Junior Software Engineer

Company – Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group (RSG)

Job Title – Full Stack Junior Software Engineer

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Permanent, Full Time

Perks – Yes

Description – LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a full stack Junior Software Engineer with a background in PHP to join their Cardiff-based development team. This position will work within an agile development team delivering solutions based on a diverse range of technologies such as Docker, PHP 7, Laravel, Vuejs and our distributed data solution (HPCC).

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the design of new features and solutions
• Developing and delivering features across the full stack (including use of modern PHP frameworks, front-end frameworks, HPCC and other tools)
• Contributing to the quality assurance effort, particularly through use of test automation tools (such as Cypress, Cucumber and Postman) and Continuous Integration tools (such as GitLab and Jenkins)
• Working closely with the product owner and project management to deliver timely products and enhancements

Apply on the website Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group (RSG) website here

Monva – Product Manager

Company – Monva

Job Title – Product Manager

Location – Chester

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Available

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – Monva are looking for a commercially aware, customer and data-driven, results and outcome-oriented Product Manager who will help grow their business with a passion for building customer led solutions and creating and maintaining positive relationships. As Product Manager you will be responsible for maintaining the roadmap and helping to shape the product vision with success based on growth in key Customer KPI’s.

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 

If any of these roles are of interest to you then don’t hesitate to contact these outstanding companies and apply for an exciting position. These are just a selection of the employment opportunities in Wales’ budding FinTech sector, so be sure to tune into our weekly roundups as more vacancies become available.

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