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Your new company

A luxury wholesaler is looking for a Finance Analyst to join their FP&A team. They are a fast-growing scale-up company whose products are currently present and highly regarded globally. The culture is progressive and fast-paced, with change and innovation on the horizon every day.

Your new role

Reporting to the FP&A Manager, your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the FP&A Team with month end and budgeting
• Business plans and wholesale reports
• Update and maintain reporting dashboards to enable data-driven decision-making
• Weekly sales reporting
• Variance analysis & providing explanations
• Financial modelling on Excel
• Drive process & system improvement within the FP&A functions
• Supporting both the FP&A and commercial finance team with any ad-hoc requests

What you'll need to succeed

You will need to be a fully qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) accountant with financial analysis experience, ideally with either retail, consumer, eCommerce or wholesale sector experience.
Large company exposure will stand you in good stead, since this company is set to grow, whilst SME experience will lend itself to implementation at this critical time of growth and scale-up.

What you'll get in return

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing business who is consistently expanding their portfolio with well-known global brands. You will get the chance to join a team with impressive finance leaders who will help support your further development.
You will receive a competitive salary of £65,000 - £70,000 plus a 10% discretionary bonus.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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Main Duties and Responsibilities Leadership For their specified business area. Lead and be the Trusts expert in financial reporting business information and general financial management accounting transactions ensuring adherence to current accounting standards and policies implementing changes to these policies/ standards as necessary. To be a role model for their team in how to provide a customer focused, high quality service to managers/directors/clinicians in the Trust. To set high standards and lead/motivate and manage the team to meet them and the expectations of internal/external colleagues/customers. To develop expertise within the team and contribute to the development of financial/business skills within the broader finance team and managers/clinicians in the Trust. To work with colleagues in Contracting, Income, Costing and information/performance management to ensure the Trust has coherent integrated information, analysis and plans. To develop, actively promote and implement standard operating procedures in relation to all internal and external financial management reports. To develop and maintain comprehensive knowledge of the Trusts accounting processes and procedures and financial systems. To implement actions in response to recommendations from Internal Audit for the enhancement of internal controls and procedures in own areas of responsibility. To have a comprehensive knowledge of national accounting standards and a good understanding of financial and other NHS legislation, NHS finance policies and initiatives relating to the NHS financial regime. To provide robust, accurate and timely core financial reports to meet internal and external month end/ year end deadlines. To ensure strong relationships and regular communications with all Trust finance managers to ensure they are informed of any data quality issues relating to the financial position of the Trust, new national guidance and policy issues, etc and to provide them with clear guidance as appropriate. Please refer to the attached job description for full details. We welcome/encourage secondments.

Finance Officer
Alternative Learning Trust
Sutton West Site, Robin Hood Lane, Sutton SM1 2SD
Required as soon as possible
Salary: £34,491 - £36,567 per annum
Hours: 36 hours per week, full time (flexibility may be considered for the right candidate – minimum of 32 hours per week).
The Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced Finance Officer who will have a sound knowledge of the financial workings of a school including budget monitoring, accounting techniques and production of reports. The successful candidate will support the Chief Finance Officer in maintaining the Trust’s accounting systems so the ability to maintain computer-based and paper-based information with speed and accuracy is essential to this role.
Applicants must have a good knowledge of Microsoft Office packages which will be tested at interview. Experience of working with SIMS and in the education sector is desirable.
This role requires a committed and efficient administrator who has proven accounting experience and the ability to communicate with a range of employees, suppliers and agencies.
The ideal candidate will have:
• Been educated to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent;
• Experience of working within a busy finance office environment;
• Strong working knowledge of a range of IT programs;
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to deal with a variety of people;
• Understanding of the relevant financial policies, codes of practice and legislation for school finances.
The Trust can offer you:
• Local Government Pension Scheme;
• An organisation with a clear moral purpose to change young people’s lives;
• A commitment to support you, in developing new skills through a wide range of professional development opportunities and experiences;
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme;
• Staff who are supportive towards each other;
• An opportunity to be part of a dynamic team and growing Trust;
• Free access to an onsite gym.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date, subject to a high response from candidates; therefore, do not hesitate in submitting your application.
For further information about Alternative Learning Trust, please visit our website. Visits are welcome by arrangement.
Closing Date: Wednesday 2 October 2024 at Midday
Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 7 October 2024

The Finance Officer is responsible for the continuing effective delivery of financial and administrative support and services to the Leadership Team. The post holder will be responsible for the management of all various incoming and outgoing funding streams and is the main finance point of contact for staff and external organisations. The post holder will keep accurate books of account reflecting the financial affairs of the Practice, and will support and be responsible to the Practice Manager by: supporting the financial management of the running of the practice providing financial administrative support and services to all members of the practice team supporting the effective delivery of all financial matters There will; on occasion, be a need to be prepared to deal with the unscripted and the unexpected. Job Responsibilities: Operational Delivery Support the Practice Manager in the day-to-day financial management of the Practice Manage payment of all supplier invoices in a timely manner Ensure all supplier and customer details remain up-to-date on the accounting system Review and raise BACS payments for all supplier invoices, ready for checking and approval Raise necessary invoices for relevant income streams and post onto the accounting system Reconcile income received against claims submitted for all money-related activities, in coordination with the Leadership Team Maintain a knowledge of the income streams of the Practice under the GMS contract and ensure that the Practice receives all income due to it Enter onto the accounts all income into the Practice this is to include the Monthly Statement of Income from all income sources as received Reconciliation of all bank accounts (main account, savings account, credit card account) and petty cash account Enter all cash and cheques received into the Practice accounting system and make sure all the cash and cheques are banked weekly/monthly including monies collected by the reception team Manage aged receivables Monitor practice expenditure on consumables Check and process ad hoc locum payments and timesheets for verification and approval Reconcile COVID Vaccinator invoices with relevant timesheets and pay vaccinators weekly Link with the PCN finance team and ascertain accurate accounts and incoming money streams Ensure the indemnity tracker is kept up-to-date with all indemnity payments and ensure reimbursements are processed in a timely manner Ensure practice-related PCSE information is accurate and updated for GPs where required Liaise with the Primary Care Commissioning & Contracting Team, local Public Health teams and NHS England/Improvement central finance teams to ensure that all queries/discrepancies relating to the income and expenditure of the practice are resolved Track all private work carried out by GPs and reimburse accordingly Manage bank accounts, cash flow, and optimise the investment of surplus funds Participate in the planning, development and implementation of new services where there is a financial bearing Implement new financial control measures as required Assist and support in the preparation of the Year End accounts; ensuring that the year-end drug stock is completed on time Undertake any other reasonable duties as required of the post Payroll and Pensions Complete all new starter/leaver details relating to payroll and submit to IRIS Bureau Responsible for the day-to-day management of payroll, to include collating monthly payroll information for processing by the external payroll provider (IRIS Bureau) with the monthly spreadsheet for the staff payroll to include a record of all overtime and sickness information Liaise regularly with the Practice Manager in respect of any changes for payroll Review the monthly payroll ready for sign off by the Practice Manager Support the Practice Manager with the payment of staff wages Maintain an up-to-date, good working knowledge of statutory payments, such as SMP, SPP and SSP Ensure that all payroll deductions are paid over on a monthly basis and in a timely manner Pension Contributions, PAYE Work with the Leadership Team to produce and distribute annual salary correspondence to all staff Assist staff with any payroll queries Administer and manage all staff pension schemes Assess, auto-enrol new members to the pension scheme. Ensure compliance with auto enrolment and recording opt out requests and forms. Ensure that re-enrolment is individually assessed and processed every thee years. Support staff with NHS pension queries To administer and assist staff with other staff benefits as required Financial Management, Audit and Reporting Production and analysis of monthly financial reports using the ledger system and report writing packages in particular, a Profit & loss report and a Balance Sheet Monitor the financial performance of the Practice and where needed, investigate variances and provide analysis on financial data Produce financial forecasts (where needed liaise with the practices accountants) and feedback to the Leadership Team on a regular basis Provide financial management support to the Leadership Team Report to the Leadership Team on the financial affairs of the Practice Maintain a close working relationship with the practices accountants Contracts/Purchasing Supporting the Practice Manager to: Manage the contracting process in accordance with current best practice Maintain the contracts register to include: contract details; fees; termination dates; notice required; terms & conditions Ensure that all contracts are competed for, to establish value for money (VfM) Regularly review and audit all contracts Ensure that best Value for Money (VfM) is at the heart of all purchasing decisions Assist the Leadership Team in pursuing new business opportunities within the public and private sector Services/Other Ad Hoc Tasks Support the Practice Manager in liaising with the practices insurers at annual renewal and in the event of any practice claims Maintain routine, effective communication with the Leadership Team Develop and assist in the development of protocols, standard procedures and performance standards relating to best financial practices and ensure that these are implemented and followed General Deal with general administrative issues related to finance Attend regular and ad hoc staff meetings as required Undertake other relevant duties assigned by Leadership Team from time to time, in order to ensure the smooth running of the practice

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Your new company

A leading consultancy firm that operates globally across 140 countries. They partner with over 200,000 organisations across the globe and offer trusted insight and advice to their clients. They pride themselves on their strong, value-driven culture and aim to create an inclusive environment where individuals can thrive in their career.

Your new role

You will be coming in as a Programme Manager to work on the design and implementation of SAP S4 HANA Finance Solutions to key clients. You will have responsibility for running client design workshops and overseeing the end-to-end implementation of the SAP solution focusing on Central Finance, Group Reporting and Group Consolidation.

You will be working closely with the client in shaping their future finance roadmap, which may involve redesigning and building their existing business processes. Also, you will be responsible for supporting business development and sales initiatives, including the bid and proposal support.

What you'll need to succeed

You will have strong experience of delivering end-to-end SAP S4 HANA Finance Transformation Programmes in a consulting environment. You will also require strong knowledge of Central Finance, Group Reporting of Group Consolidation activities and areas.

You must be able to demonstrate experience in running and supporting pre-sales activities - RFPs, demos and client engagement. You will also have experience producing project deliverables including business requirements, functional specs, configuration documents and process flows.

Experience of facilitating design workshops and translating these requirements into design is also essential.

What you'll get in return
Competitive basic salary alongside strong benefits package and bonus options available

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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This is an exciting opportunity to join our finance team at a pivotal time. As a Finance Manager, you will play a crucial role in leading and supporting a team of five, working closely with the Head of Financial Reporting. You will be responsible for coordinating and delivering key financial processes, including monthly accounting returns, key balance sheet reconciliations and maintaining robust financial controls.

In this role, you will collaborate with key stakeholders both within and outside the Trust to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting. You will also take the lead in the preparation and analysis of the statutory accounts, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and be a key contact in the external audit process.

Your responsibilities will include overseeing the reconciliation, production and prompt clearing of balance sheet accounts and aligning financial reporting processes with the Trust’s reporting timetable. You will drive the monthly reporting process, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of financial data within the agreed timescales.

This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment with hybrid and flexible working options. It provides ample opportunities for professional development and growth within the Trust.We look forward to receiving your application


Key date : Panel & Stakeholder Meetings: From 17thOctober 2024
• To deliver high quality financial reporting services which achieve targets for timeliness accuracy and financial control
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting systems within the Trust. Develop and implement robust financial policies and procedures to enhance reporting practices. Collaborate closely with internal and external auditors and counter-fraud teams
• To lead the month end process for financial accounts and reporting to external agencies, and to assist in the production of the Trust Annual Accounts and the external audit process

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.



The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.


This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Oct 2024

Your new business
A fast growth media and tech brand based in central London is hiring a recently qualified ACA practice trained Accountant to join their growing and high performing team as a Project Finance Accountant. You will be working for a vibrant and growing company combining large scale iconic global projects with an intimate and energetic working environment. If you are a recently qualified ACA with audit and accounts preparation experience please apply to show interest in the role.

Your new role
You will be required to take responsibility for the financial performance and control of a portfolio of projects. You key duties will include:

• Day-to-day financial operations
• Quarterly management reporting and annual statutory reporting
• Ownership for the production and presentation of financial results to the Board
• Consolidations of companies clusters
• Key stakeholder engagements

What you'll need to succeed

• ACA / ACCA practice trained
• Audit and Accounts prep
• Listed clients exposure preferred
• IFRS / UK GAAP / FRS 102
• Group consolidation

What you'll get in return
The role is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking for a wider remit of responsibilities and has scope beyond its basic responsibilities. You will be working alongside a team of project finance accountants and managers reporting into the Senor Financial Controller. The business focuses heavily on employee development and career progression and has created a youthful and dynamic team!

To apply for this role please contact Nicolette Solomou either by email or on 020 3465 0012.

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Finance Business Partner who is an ACA / ACCA / CIMA fully qualified accountant with accounting experience within a multi-company environment for a housing association, property management or real estate related company, is required to join a well-established housing association.


SALARY: £79,603 - £83,688 pro rata + Generous Benefits (see below)

LOCATION: Hybrid working – 1 to 2 days per week from the Ealing office and the remaining time from home

JOB TYPE: Full-Time, 12 Month Fixed Term Contact

WORKING HOURS: 35 hours per week


JOB OVERVIEW

We have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Finance Business Partner who is ACA / ACCA / CIMA fully qualified accountant with accounting experience within a multi-company environment for a housing association, property management or real estate related company.

The organisation is looking for a Finance Business Partner to join their fantastic Finance division. This is a new role within organisation and will be working alongside the wider financial reporting team and Property leadership team to review and challenge financial and performance information within the Property business area.

As the Finance Business Partner, you will also influence operational and strategic decision making and provide analysis of financial and non-financial data to provide greater insight on value for money and efficiencies, as well as enhancing commercial awareness and performance.


DUTIES

Your duties as a Finance Business Partner will include:

• Partner with the Property leadership, including senior managers, to ensure the financial information provided is relevant and enables the business to make informed strategic decisions and to deliver the performance targets across the multiple business areas within the Property team including the repairs joint venture operation

• Use financial information to inform business decisions and challenge managers at all levels on costs including overheads, assumptions, and process to ensure the business is operating in a professional and commercial manner and delivering value for money for customers

• Participate in and contribute to senior management meetings, including the Pyramid joint venture meetings, on the presentation and provocation of financial and business performance

• Promote and embed a value for money culture across the business by systematically benchmarking across the best in class within and outside sector

• Work with the Financial Planning & analysis team to understand the relationship between the longer-term plan for property investment vs the cost of responsive repairs in the short term

• Play the role of independent, critical friend to ensure accurate budgeting and forecasting of performance, ensuring consistent and justifiable assumptions as a result of strong business partnering relationships and supportive challenge

• Ensure risks and opportunities to performance and budget/latest forecast are well understood and raised in a timely manner with identification of interventions and risks are accompanied by robust recommendations to get back to target

• Carry out analytical reviews of the budget and forecast of specific business areas and identify and mitigate risks to the budget and forecast

• Working with the business to maintain active involvement in the financial and operational performance to draw out insights and intelligence to inform strategic decisions relating to value for money and the aspiration to improve the customer experience


CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math’s and English (Grades A*- C)

• Fully qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA and educated to degree level

• Previous significant experience in a senior role for a housing association, property management or real estate related company

• Demonstrable finance experience within a multi-company environment carrying out extensive business partnering with senior management

• Comfortable analysing and assessing data to draw insights, assess performance and identity required interventions

• Understands how Finance strategies and interventions support overall Business Strategies and Goals and able to drive effective financial performance through brokering the services of the wider Finance team where necessary

• Significant experience of service delivery to non-finance personnel at a senior level


BENEFITS

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Flexible working
• Investment in your learning and development
• Cycle to Work Scheme


The organisation recognises that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, they’d still encourage you to apply should you not feel you meet the criteria 100%.


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Morgan Hunt are currently recruiting for a Finance Analyst full time 12 Month FTC with a reputable Housing Association on a hybrid basis. This Finance analyst role is paying up to £46,000 per annum.

The Finance Analyst will be providing support with budgeting and forecasting as well as managing the monthly management accounts whilst working in collaboration with Finance Business Partners. A great role for someone looking to develop on their existing knowledge and have a positive step in their career progression.

Main Responsibilities of the Finance Analyst:

• Oversee the monthly management accounts process to ensure financial reports are completed accurately and on time.
• Provide analysis and assistance for budgeting and forecasting efforts.
• Work closely with finance teams and other departments to gather and streamline financial data.
• Evaluate financial data to spot trends, issues, and opportunities for improvement, aiding internal decision-making.
• Manage and maintain large data sets in Excel and internal systems, ensuring data accuracy and reliability.

Person Specification of the Finance Analyst:

• Pursuing or holding a CCAB-recognised accounting qualification with ongoing professional development.
• Experienced in management reporting and budgeting within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong communicator with skills to engage diverse audiences and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker, adept at analysing complex data to create solutions and drive data-informed decisions.
• Proven ability to influence operational activities at both tactical and strategic levels across the business.
• Skilled in Excel; knowledge of D365 and Power BI is a plus.

Benefits and Package

• £46,000
• 35 hours per week
• Hybrid working
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

JOB TITLE: Customer Support

SALARY: £29,099

LOCATION(S): Hammersmith, covering our friendly Hammersmith King Street branch
HOURS: 35 hours a week, including Saturdays

WORKING PATTERN: Full-time

About this opportunity
Do you want to be part of a team that makes a genuine difference to customers, businesses and communities?

As one of our Customer Support colleagues, you'll learn, grow and develop within an inclusive organisation with genuine values focussed on putting people first.

You could be in one of our branches helping our customers side by side, or working from home, doing your best to help the person at the other end of the line (we also connect via social media, web-chat and remote advice video calls).

You'll learn to make the most of your best talent - helping people. You'll show you care and understand what matters to them and if you don't know the answer then you'll have access to a supportive team that do.

From Day 1 we'll provide all the training and support you'll need. Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, potential hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you'll find them all here.

About us
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need

• Crucially, you're a people person - to be honest and genuine, caring about helping people with their finances (no previous financial services experience required)
• The ability to quickly build relationships to give customers a fantastic experience.
• The passion to put yourself in the customers' shoes, show empathy, acting with care and integrity - taking time to resolve queries and giving our customers confidence in the service you're providing.
• The commitment to deliver on your promises and going above and beyond for your customer.
• A genuine teammate - collaborating closely with colleagues to ensure your customers' needs are met.
• If located in in one of our hybrid locations, you will need to meet our Homeworking criteria, for example, a quiet, private room at home, stable internet connection.
  
  

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 22 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more. (Please note our roles can generate a considerable amount of interest and close early so don't miss out on this opportunity to apply today.)

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Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: East London
Hours: 36 hours, 52 weeks per year
Salary range: £39,588 – £43,099 per year
Waltham Forest College has been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted following its most recent inspection and has distinguished itself as one of only 15 General Further Education Colleges across the country to achieve the prestigious ‘Outstanding’ rating. As an Anchor Institution, Waltham Forest College serves its local and regional communities across North and East London exceptionally well and has been successful in driving aspiration and achievements for its students and wider communities.
We believe that our employees are the heart of the organisation and having the right people in the right place, with the right skills is the key to our success. We are looking for committed individuals who are passionate about working in an aspirational and high performing college and dedicated to contributing to an outstanding experience for our learners
This person will be responsible for delivering a finance business partnering service to the College under the guidance of the Senior Accountant. You will prepare, review and analyse financial information and reports every month. You will work closely with budget holders, helping them to understand, monitor and plan their budgets. The successful applicant will be responsible for reviewing monthly spending against budget, investigating variances, and identifying corrective actions. You will also be accountable for forecasting income, pay and non-pay and will participate in the other financial planning exercises throughout the year. The role is integral to improving the financial management and performance of the College.
You will be a Part/ Qualified accountant with three years of relevant experience in a busy finance environment. You will be used to contributing to strategic and operational plans and have significant experience in producing management accounts, variance analysis and financial reporting, including writing draft commentaries. You will have an inquisitive mind, with good attention to detail and used to working to tight deadlines. You will be a team player, ready to help colleagues to achieve the departmental goals.
What’s in it for you?
We offer the opportunity to help develop your skills and knowledge in a friendly team environment, plus a range of benefits including a career average pension scheme, employee assistance programme, enhanced sick pay, NUS Employee discount, free onsite parking, cycle to work scheme and Sodexo benefits scheme.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to creating and promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce that better reflects the wider community we support.
Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of our students and expect everybody working for the College to share this commitment. We actively seek DBS clearance checks for applications of employment as part of our safeguarding procedures. In line with KCSIE 2024 and Safer Recruitment principles the college reserves the right to conduct online searches of shortlisted candidate.
Closing Date: 29 September 2024
Interview Date: w/c 7 October 2024
*Please apply as soon as possible as applications will be considered upon receipt; we reserve the right to interview before the closing date*.

JOB TITLE: Behavioural Scientist

SALARY: £84,186 - £93,540

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office location.

About this opportunity
Our Behavioural Science group are a small but diverse team embedded within the bank's Data Science team. We focus on decision-making and behaviours, knowledge of state-of-the art behavioural insights and rigorous quantitative research methods, to add customer value and resolve business problems.

We're creating vast data lakes to understand how our customers behave and what they demand and are establishing environments to refine our solutions through live experiments. All of this enables us to meet the personalised banking needs of an increasingly digital society. We've set up a dedicated multi-disciplinary team of Behavioural Scientists that combines behavioural insights with data, to create entirely new opportunities for our customers and colleagues.

What you'll work on.

While you'll be able to shape the role according to your core expertise, strengths and interests, your role will involve the following:

• You'll provide thought leadership and champion behavioural insights to help different business areas improve their understanding of our customers' activity and decision-making - especially in support of new digital and offline customer experiences.

• Working across various products and services, you'll design and test behaviourally-informed solutions to major challenges based by the bank, in order to transform experiences and deliver tangible benefits to our customers and colleagues.

• You'll contribute to building reusable knowledge, processes and methodologies within the Behavioural Science team to help drive the team's efficiency, scope and growth.

• As an advisor to a wide range of colleagues, you'll lead on the presentation of a diverse range of behavioural research and findings to support key business decision-makers.

• You'll partner with academic collaborators from leading global institutions to help build the team's profile and demonstrate the impact of our Behavioural Science work in and beyond the bank

• You'll work as a part of a diverse team, with colleagues from different backgrounds and wide areas of expertise. You'll be able to understand other people's perspectives and weigh a diverse range of opinions to achieve the best outcomes.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need

You'll need to have practical experience of applying Behavioural Science approaches in a commercial or government organisation or be PhD qualified in a research discipline with an interest in applying your experience within a commercial setting.

Additionally, we'll expect you to bring:

• A creative and entrepreneurial mind-set.

• Strong understanding of the behavioural science literature based on professional exposure or academic study, for example psychology, behavioural economics, judgement and decision-making or consumer behaviour.

• Proven and relevant experience applying behavioural insights and testing solutions to solve real-world problems, in business, public sector or academia.

• The ability to clearly explain behavioural science concepts to non-specialist audiences.

• Strong knowledge of quantitative research methods and statistical techniques as applied in the social sciences.

• An understanding of ethical and regulatory expectations in financial markets and an awareness of previous examples where these expectations have not been successfully met.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience working within retail financial services, or alternatively another market with a substantial focus on retail customer behaviours.

• Practical experience running large and impactful quantitative experiments, such as using digital A/B testing, personalisation and analytics platforms.

• Experience affecting organisation change around a new finding, idea or initiative, building customer support and driving awareness amongst colleagues.

• Personal resilience, problem solving and business development skills in a large, matrix commercial environment.

• Strong presentation skills.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer - Payments Services Platform

SALARY: £53,613 - £60,000

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS: [Full-time]

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London Office

About this opportunity…

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Payments Platform for a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer in our Instant Payments lab, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing, and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions.

A DevOps is not a "thing you do" but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate.

About us…

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

Here's where you'll make a difference…

You have can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You'll be presented with technical challenges on a scale unmatched in other industry sectors, but with this also the satisfaction of knowing your expertise will be making a difference to millions of customers. It's a very hands-on role, with your time spread among short term support-related tasks, longer-term initiatives and personal development. You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

Tools we commonly used to build automated release pipelines in LBG…

• Jenkins, Groovy, GitHub, Harness, ArgoCD, GitOps

• NexusIQ, Aquasec, SonarQube

• Docker & Kubernetes.

• CI/CD pipelines to both public and private Cloud - Google Cloud and Open Shift Cloud

• Programming experience (Java, Spring boot)

• Istio service mesh

What you'll need…

We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you amazing!

As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated core, hands-on experience the below:

Cloud/DevOps experience:

• Public cloud experience (utilising Terraform)

• Experience in DevOps practices in the Cloud

• Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation.

Containerisation:

• Kubernetes and Docker

• Containerised Microservices

Programming/Scripting in:

• Java, Spring Boot

• Bash, Groovy

Source code repositories:

• Particularly Git

Software Development Life Cycle:

• Full project life cycle experience (from inception through to production) and including: Continuous integration, Automated deployments, Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven)

In addition, any of the below, would also be beneficial:

• Knowledge of fundamentals cloud architecture and security concepts

• Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage, e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef

• Event based architecture knowledge of Kafka, Global K tables, KStreams

About working for us…

Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes…

* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

* An annual performance-related bonus

* Share schemes including free shares.

* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

* 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

Join our journey.

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