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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.

Acquis – Compliance Officer 

Company – Acquis Insurance

Job Title – Compliance Officer 

Location – Newport, South Wales and Home Based

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (Enhanced family leave, medical & life insurance & more)

Description: 

Acquis has a substantial client base, spread across fifteen European countries. Joining the Acquis team as a Compliance Officer, you will assist with regulatory compliance from an insurance intermediary perspective, in our existing territories as well as in new territories that we enter. 

This role will be varied, but the aim is to ensure that Acquis is conducting their regulated business correctly in all jurisdictions across Europe and keeping up to date with new and emerging compliance and regulatory issues.

If you have experience in insurance regulatory compliance required (preferably insurance intermediation) and knowledge of relevant European regulations, in particular IDD, then Acquis wants to hear from you.

Some of the main duties will include:

• building and maintaining relationships with our external compliance specialists,
•  ensuring that we have properly documented regulatory and compliance issues/queries/updates, 
• reporting on regulatory compliance to our group board of directors.

These are exciting times for Acquis. If you feel you have the skills, experience and drive that matches their ambitions, simply click here to complete their application form today!

Principality Building Society – Head of Financial Reporting & Control

Company – Principality Building Society

Job Title – Head of Financial Reporting & Control

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Up to £100,000 depending on experience

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (read about Principality’s employee rewards & benefits here)

Description:

Principality is a mutual building society, owned by and run for the benefit of their 500,000 Members.

As Principality’s Head of Financial Reporting & Control, you will need to be an experienced leader who is prepared to roll up their sleeves and support others to be the best they can be! You will take ownership of our Finance Operations team and play a key role in the change and development of the business.

Principality is looking for a Head of Financial Reporting & Control at a crucial time who can:

• Be a transformational leader with a strategic eye!
• Work with a business that has ambition, integrity and is willing to take calculated risks!
• Be part of a vibrant, forward-thinking team with a strong core strategy and impeccable reputation!

Key Criteria:

• Technical Skills – The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant with substantial post qualification experience in relevant roles and strong technical accounting skills. They will have knowledge of corporation, payroll and VAT taxes as well as substantial knowledge and understanding of IFRS9 impairment requirements, and experience of implementation in a financial services institution.
• Understanding and knowledge of securitisation structures and other forms of secured funding transaction is needed as is understanding of hedge accounting principles and the requirements of IAS32/39.
• The role holder will have knowledge and understanding of defined benefit pension schemes and understanding of the current regulatory environment including understanding of capital, liquidity and interest rate risk.
• Previous Experience – This senior role requires strong leadership and communication skills along with the ability to operate at both a technical functional level and at a strategic level. Experience of leading and managing a large team, including being a manager of managers is essential.

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Principality’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Principality. 

Confused.com – Senior Data Engineer 

Company – Confused.com

Job Title –  Senior Data Engineer

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (Discretionary cash bonus based on personal and business performance, 28 days holiday & more)

Description:

Confused.com is looking for a Senior Data Engineer, a role that has evolved from the traditional Senior SQL Developer role.

Working closely with colleagues from across the business, you’ll get the chance to expand your knowledge of different data technologies and explore new and exciting capabilities—including big data and artificial intelligence.

You’ll be working with a team of data experts tasked with fully automating a new cloud data platform as well as maintaining our existing solution.

Key competencies:

• Ability to work closely with our cross-functional product teams to identify and deliver projects that will drive value to customers of Confused.com.
• Experience of working in an agile environment.
• Experience of building robust solutions for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources, including third-party providers, API’s and our existing Azure platform.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Foster a self-service data culture; working closely with other data engineers, architects, and technologists to share knowledge, evaluate opportunities and proactively recommend improvements in architecture, pipelines, data models, tools and processes.
• Translate data into valuable insights that inform decisions. Involves teams in analytics and synthesis to increase consensus and challenge assumptions.
• Must be passionate about DevOps and have a resilient attitude in pushing the DevOps perspective within a Kanban team.
• Maintaining and creating continuous delivery pipelines in Azure DevOps.
• Positive outlook and desire to learn and help drive and instil technical excellence within the Confused.com IT department.
• Deliver projects to time, budget and quality in order to deliver business goals.

Essential skills:

• Experience of tools such as VSTS (Azure DevOps).
• Designs, writes and iterates code from prototype to production-ready. Understands security, accessibility and version control.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, including data warehouse technical architectures, infrastructure components, ETL/ELT and reporting/analytic tools.
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with data modelling and relational databases.
• A passion for data, cloud-based services and customer experience.
• Knowledge and experience of Kimball design.
• Ensures risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Confused.com’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Confused.com. 

Hodge – Savings Marketing Consultant

Company – Hodge 

Job Title –  Savings Marketing Consultant

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (Competitive Salary & Annual Bonus, generous pension scheme & more)

Description:

This is a new role within the Hodge Marketing Team and is an exciting opportunity to be an integral part of driving the savings business forward within a dynamic and evolving organisation. The successful candidate will work very closely with the wider MarComms and savings teams to define and deliver the savings marketing strategy.

This role is critical in supporting the growth strategy for the savings business and to genuinely be a part of Hodge’s ambitious growth plans.

Key role responsibilities:

• Develop the strategy and communications proposition for new and existing savings customers
• Create, deliver and optimise marketing activity in line with specified performance targets
• Develop plans and set campaign targets aligned to allocated budget
• Manage marketing budget against plan to ensure effective use of marketing spend
• Work with the wider communications team and external agency partners to develop best in class marketing communications
• Contribute to best practice and incorporate latest developments and thinking in the delivery of our communications
• Help to define the proposition and alignment of the savings offering to the Banks brand, value proposition and tone of voice
• Work across the savings and wider retail business and foster good collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders
• Measure the impact, ROI and effectiveness of all marketing activity delivered
• Challenge existing thinking and provide innovative marketing solutions
• Keep abreast of any existing or changes to, compliance, regulatory and company standards
• Ensure all campaigns meet the required brand guidelines, regulatory standards, and all Hodge specific requirements for compliance/ advertising approvals sign off

For more information on this role or to apply, click here. Click here to explore more openings with Hodge. 

Backbase – UX Designer 

Company – Backbase

Job Title –  UX Designer 

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes 

Description:

Join Backbase’s success and transform the face of banking for millions. Create beautiful, interactive experiences for their customers within Backbase’s Product Tribe.

About you:

• You have 2-5 years of experience in digital/interactive design roles, including design experience in high-complexity software;
• You have a Bachelor or Masters-level degree in one of the following; Graphic Design, Interactive Design, Digital Product Design, Human Factors;
• You have experience working through multiple product build and release cycles;
• You have experience creating elegant solutions to complex user experience problems;
• You have strong visual design skills evidenced by examples of where you’ve created pixel-perfect products (add a link to your online portfolio on your resume);
• You have experience in creating interactive prototypes and also knowledge of design and prototyping tools e.g Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, ProtoPie, Principle, InVision Studio;
• You have experience creating navigation and page layout/templates, functional design, iconography, look and feel and style guides; you have strong typographic layout skills;
• You have experience in creating wireframes, user flows through to asset generation;
• You are used to liaising with developers and QA testers to ensure designs are built and delivered to design specifications;
• You have solid communication skills and team-working capability;
• You are used to providing development teams with support and guidance to help follow our design standards and our UX best practices;
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset, you are proactive and happy to take initiative; you are also self-motivated with an ability to hit deadlines and work independently; you have an eye for detail.

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Backbase’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Backbase. 

Yoello – Marketing Executive 

Company – Yoello

Job Title –  Marketing Executive

Location – Cardiff

Contract – 6 months initially via Government’s Kickstart Scheme 

Perks – Yes (opportunity to gain experience with a fast-paced and high growth start-up)

Description:

This role is to support the Yoello marketing team as they are starting to build out international awareness of the brand in 2021.

This is an exciting opportunity to get some very hands-on experience with a young and hard working team with an opportunity to work on projects that have high impact for the business and are seen by a very large audience (great for the CV!).

Key Responsibilities:

• Copywriting – blogs, articles, guides
• Social media – creating content and managing channels such as Twitter, Instagram,Facebook and LinkedIn
• PR – speaking with journalists, finding opportunities for stories or interviews
• Research – finding opportunities for Yoello such as sponsorships, award entries,keynote/speaking slots on webinars or at events as well as general research into relevantindustry stats and trends and competitor activity
• Direct marketing – reach out to businesses with our great hospitality support guides orinformation around our products
• Graphic design – support with ad hoc design and building upon Yoello’s bank of designcollateral

‍Soft Skills & Work Experience required:

• Ideally experience in Marketing or an interest in marketing
• Team work, organisational skills and personable
• Creative thinking

For more information on this roleor to apply, visit Yoello’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Yoello. 

Wealthify – Mid-level Software Engineer

Company – Wealthify

Job Title – Mid-level Software Engineer

Location – Penarth, South Wales

Salary – Competitive salary up to £40,000

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes (flexible working, Annual bonus between 0-20% of your annual salary & more)

Description:

You’ll be working as a software engineer in a cross-functional squad of designers, product, engineers, and testers, to deliver new products and features. Squads develop and own features end-to-end, so you’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of technologies, across web, mobile apps, API, backend, and databases. We’re hosted in Microsoft Azure and take advantage of cloud technologies to ensure our platform is secure, fast, and scales to meet demand.

All team members participate in architecture and design choices, sprint planning and code reviewing; and tech leads are on hand to coach and mentor others. We write high quality, high performance, scalable code, and release small and often, using Git and Azure DevOps. Developers all contribute to code reviews, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.”

Attributes:

• Experience as a software developer with web or app experience, or both
• Good analysis and problem-solving skills
• Effective communicator
• Attention to detail
• Advocate of code quality, clean code, and best practice
• Microsoft stack (C#, .NET Core, SQL, Azure)
• Experience of test-driven development (unit testing, mocking, integration testing)
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or cross functional teams
• Understanding of DevOps practices (CI & CD)
• Familiarity of Cloud environments (e.g., Azure)
• Mentoring/coaching/team working

Apply on the Wealthify website here. Click here to explore more openings with Wealthify. 

Delio – Account Manager

Company – Delio

Job Title –  Account Manager 

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – £35-£45,000

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (25 days off + bank holidays, competitive pension contributions & more)

Description: 

​​Delio is transforming private markets. Through their technology and expertise, Delio helps the world’s most respected financial institutions to deliver private market transactions to their clients. 

As a Product Owner, you’ll be working with Delio’s customers and internal stakeholders – providing the vision and goals for Delio’s products and services in line with the company strategy. You’ll collaborate closely with Delio’s clients, the market and the wider business to understand and prioritise roadmap initiatives whilst working alongside the Development Team.

As part of the product team, you’ll collaborate with other product owners to keep dependencies coordinated, visualised and managed.  This role will manage the priority of the product backlog, keeping stakeholders involved and informed on progress towards goals, outcomes and objectives. 

Essential requirements:

• Experience of working within an agile environment (and can articulate the benefits of working in such a way)
• Experience within the fintech space
• Ability to lead or facilitate workshops aimed at identifying and prioritising value for our clients
• Experience working with AWS/Azure cloud technologies
• Ability to visualise and communicate the product roadmap
• Minimum of two years of experience as a PO working within an agile environment
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment with minimal supervision
• A proactive attitude to work with an ability to take initiative and lead from the front
• Can absorb complex information and articulate key messages clearly and professionally
• Able to build internal and external stakeholder relationships quickly and effectively
• Demonstrable experience of working effectively as part of a team but also comfortable working independently

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Delio’s website, here. Click here to explore moe openings with Delio. 

Admiral Pioneer – ​​CRM Manager

Company – Admiral Pioneer

Job Title –  CRM Manager 

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – £35-£45,000

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes

Description:

Admiral is looking for an experienced CRM Manager, a proactive team member who is passionate about solving full lifecycle marketing problems, working with cross-functional teams, creating business value and continuous improvement. You are confident working in a fast-paced environment and within multi-disciplinary teams, and you should be a quick and curious learner who can build trust and credibility quickly.

The CRM Manager is a new role In Veygo, focusing on commercially exploiting all insurance products and services, through Website and App products, marketing, sales, design, data and analytics, and A/B testing. You’ll be responsible for the CRM strategy, planning, activation and optimisation, performance reporting and continuous improvement. You will also work with other early stage Pioneer businesses to create commonality.  

You’ll be responsible for:

• Developing, upskilling, and mentoring the CRM Marketing competency area
• Lead the full customer lifecycle CRM strategy, planning, execution, and reporting
• Optimising LTV to deliver maximum revenue and reduce churn through CRM
• Delivering a 1:1 contact and campaign strategy to capture insurance premium and reduce churn
• Building a deep understanding of our customer base, their needs, and motivations, and aligning that with ways to acquire, retain and leverage CRM, across all channels [online and offline] and touchpoints [Web and App]
• Performance manage internal team and agencies to optimise the yield on any spend, via better planning, targeting, creative, execution, A/B testing, campaign types, etc.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders on CRM opportunities along product conversion journeys [on Website and App], in-use customers, drive retention and cross sell and fully leverage Salesforce technical and functional capability and develop events, automation to capture value

Your experience & skills:

• CRM Team – Set-up and managed a CRM Marketing team to prepare, plan, activate and optimise multiple existing and new products and new MVPs.
• Cross-functional Collaboration – used to prioritising opportunities [with commercial team], ensuring data is clean and can be segmented [with data team], systems ready [with IT], campaigns and A/B tests are planned and activated [with growth team], etc.
• Context – Relevant start-up/scale-up experience in a consumer market(s) shaping, planning, and executing growth activities in line with strategy
• Forecasting – Experience building bottom-up benefit forecasts to size and prioritise growth opportunities and allocation of resources, A/B test MVPs / launch campaigns.
• Tools, Touchpoints & Channels – Salesforce Marketing Cloud [i.e.., Email Studio, Journey Builder, and Mobile Studio] and comfortable with HTML, AMPScript, and familiar with SQL / SOQL.  Website and Mobile Apps, Email, SMS, etc.
• Working with Data – You’ll be doing a lot of analysis and data crunching to work out the effectiveness and direction of our work, so having a head for numbers is great. 
• Qualification – Minimum of a degree in Marketing or related area.

For more information on this role or to apply, visit Admiral’s website, here. Click here to explore more openings with Admiral. 

Currencycloud – Compliance Analyst 

Company – Currencycloud

Job Title –  Compliance Analyst 

Location – Cardiff 

Salary – Competitive

Contract – Permanent, full-time

Perks – Yes (individual learning and development budget, mental health days)

Description:

Currencycloud is somewhere where innovative thinking and the power of technology know no limits.

Currencycloud’s Compliance department is looking for a talented Compliance Analyst to join the Client Review Team to assist with day-to-day tasks and ad-hoc projects.

The Details:

• Conduct sanction/PEP screening and investigate potential hits
• Conduct monitoring of existing applications to ensure that documentation is up to date
• Carry out enhanced customer due diligence (ECDD) and know-your-customer (KYC) checks when required
• Analyse payment and compliance data to identify trends and patterns
• Proactively identify trends and potential platform issues and escalate when necessary
• Work cross-departmentally to proactively identify and resolve operational compliance queries
• Assist with various administrative tasks and ad-hoc projects
• Identification and reporting of suspicious activity to the relevant department
• Proactively escalate urgent cases to the TL/Manager for further review

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:

• Excellent analytical skills and ability to work in a methodical manner
• Ability to work independently on projects as required and communicate results effectively throughout the team
• Meet daily SLA objectives
• All duties carried out in the role are delivered to a high standard
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines
• Excellent team working skills, ability to manage own workload with tenacious attention to detail until completion
• Have an interest in having a career in Compliance within the payments, financial services, technology or FX industry
• Be articulate, numerate, organised, hardworking and able to build excellent relationships

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

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