Total 122 Finance / Banking / Insurance job vacancies in Edinburgh, EH1 3AD

Connect Appointments are seeking a Purchasing & Finance Assistant for work with our established client in Edinburgh on a temporary-to-permanent basis!

Pay rate: £13.50 per hour

Working within an established team in a newly-refurbished office, the successful Purchasing & Finance Assistant will have previous experience, ideally within a construction/window fabrication business.

The role will require the successful candidate to be experience with Xero accounting package and have an excellent telephone manner and customer care skills.

You will also be taking care of orders from clients and suppliers and placing them on the system so solid administrative and IT skills are required.

Does this sound like the opportunity for you? Get Connected and apply now by submitting your most up-to-date CV, or call our team for a friendly chat on 01324 464 951.

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JOB TITLE: Audit Analyst

SALARY: From £45,954 +

LOCATION(S): Bristol or Edinburgh

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 one of our location hubs (Bristol or Edinburgh)

About this opportunity

As an Audit Analyst, you'll join a team of experienced auditors where you'll support the delivery of our strategy and be a proactive team member. You will work within a leading audit function and gain exposure to a wide range of risk modelling, capital assessment and other analytical techniques across our banking and insurance businesses. You'll have a growth mindset and positively contribute to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of our Audit function.

You'll Assist the Engagement Lead in the delivery of Audits or lead evaluation of controls and completion of testing applying proficient knowledge of audit methodology and assigned business / risk area.

• Delivers specified outcomes and/or provides support services within a designated area of audit control by working within established systems.
• Supports internal customers to ensure their needs are met and/or helps senior colleagues manage client relationships.
• Highlights shortcomings and suggests improvements in current compliance processes, systems and procedures within assigned unit and/or discipline.
• Delivers prescribed outcomes by working as directed within established data management systems and procedures.
• Conducts research using primary data sources and selects relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends.
• Develops personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities, while also coaching others as required.

About us

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

We're looking for team players - Who trust each other, act as one team to achieve the best outcomes and make a positive difference to the Group and its customers.

We want colleagues who are bold and take action - Confidently innovate, share exceptional insights, deliver difficult messages and drive action that leaves a legacy of significantly improved governance, risk management and control.

• Knowledge of the generic elements of a model life cycle, and their associated risks, as well as an understanding of effective model risk management and governance;
• Knowledge of regulatory capital requirements in Insurance or Banking;
• Practical experience developing, using or monitoring models measuring Credit, Market or Actuarial Risks;
• The ability to deliver risk and control assurance activity that is timely, impactful, insightful and valued by stakeholders;
• Experience using statistical analysis and qualitative techniques to validate models;
• The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and to use data to drive effective audit outcomes.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

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

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

JOB TITLE: Workplace Experience Co-ordinator

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh/ Glasgow / Dunfermline/ Belfast/ Chester/ London

SALARY: £28,329 to £36,822 depending on location.

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: This role involves spending up to five days a week, or 100% of your time at one of our office location.

We're building a trailblazing workplace experience team, and we'll completely transform how we manage our buildings.

We're looking for customer centric people, that'll take ownership of LBG workplace experiences. You'll need to have passion for customer service and be a workplace role model driving LBG culture within our workplaces.

It's our goal to ensure our buildings are safe, secure, have a sense of community and are places that colleagues love to work.

What you'll get from us

• The chance to be part of an industry leading business area with a great team culture.

• Exposure to senior leadership across the group and opportunities to grow your network

• The opportunity to have a real positive impact on the lives of our people

Day to day, you'll:

• Co-ordinate the colleague experience within your site including being the first point of contact for colleagues, supporting colleagues with day-to-day queries, listening to colleague feedback, working with our Workplace Experience Assistant Manager to ensuring our buildings are safe, secure, have a sense of community and places that colleagues love to work from

• Ensure our buildings are safe and secure through regular operational checks including fire doors, fire risk assessment and hygiene checks - feeding in findings to the Workplace Experience Assistant Manager.

• Support our communities, drive employee engagement overseeing events and communications including in-house or off-site activities, socials and celebrations for employee engagement, marketing, and talent attraction, coordinating all details from inception to execution

• You'll empower colleagues on site to use our spaces, tech & tools in line with our design standards through onboarding tours and tech showcases, and then challenging our colleague behaviours to embed our workplace habits and bring to life our design.

• Co-ordinating and sending communications for the local workplace including leaders and colleague messaging and updating community on any incidents and repairs and interact with local colleagues and leaders through online communications, digital signage and regular forums including running our local workplace council and supporting our local leadership group, including fulfilling actions from forums to enhance the overall workplace.

• Ensuring the office runs smoothly, is safe, and is clean and tidy - checking on meeting room set up, IT first fix triage, removing old equipment, furniture, or appliances. Proactively spotting faults. Providing event support for business units, restocking stationery and printer hubs, supporting colleagues with DSE equipment, locker management, lost property, and meeting room technology

We will be holding a find out more call on Wednesday 20th November at 10am. If you would be interested in attending please reach out to jess.randell-

What we're looking for:

• You love working at Lloyds Banking Group and have a passion for your local workplace.

• You care about colleagues and want to make a difference to their working day and how they feel about their workplaces.

• You have good stakeholder management skills and have the ability to build relationships with those around you quickly - understanding needs and putting others at ease.

• You have an ability to think creatively and facilitate group ideation.

• You can produce engaging, and clear communications intended for colleagues.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• You have existing experience supporting the running of our workplace.

• You have knowledge of Health & Safety in the workplace.

• You have experience running both large and small-scale events - preferably within Lloyds Banking Group

• You can show strong evidence of pro-active networking, including engagement with external organisations and events.

• You think differently to others - Able to demonstrate an entrepreneurial and innovative approach to your role.

• You have experience listening to colleagues through a variety of methods

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.

If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, 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

• 24 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A variety of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today!

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager, SME

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for several motivated individuals to join the Strategic Ledger team as a Subject Matter Expert (SME). The core purpose of the role is to support Finance with the adoption of Strategic Oracle tooling.

This role requires a strong finance systems background and the ability to establish effective relationships as you work closely with key stakeholders across all areas of the business. Your ability to provide insightful advice and appropriate challenge to these stakeholders is central to the role and helps ensure that any changes required to finance applications are supported and implemented in a controlled way.

This is an exciting and varied role, which will enable you to thrive in a supportive, diverse & dynamic team with prospects to really develop your capabilities and career.

Day to day you'll be;

• Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across Finance and the Business.
• Assessing and managing the impact of operational, quarterly releases and project change on the relevant systems and business processes.
• Providing support for live implementations.
• Supporting BAU through the investigation and resolution of system incidents and issues impacting the finance applications.
• Making use of Industry Best practice to suggests improvements to existing processes, systems, and procedures.

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

• Experience in supporting Finance teams/function with the adoption of Strategic Oracle tooling.
• Ability to identify key issues, break down problems and establish facts.
• Energetic, tenacious in the achievement of goals and operates at pace. Has a 'can / will do' approach and must be prepared to be hands on.
• Possesses the flexibility and drive to support a changing, dynamic business. Looks for opportunities to simplify and improve within a changing environment. Communicates and explains change effectively.
• Experience in complex finance systems and change methodology preferred. Exhibits high level of curiosity around technology, markets, and the business area.
• A qualified accountant or qualified by experience in a Finance environment.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager Group Finance Support (Commercial Banking)

SALARY: £80,206 - £103,796

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

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 one of our office sites

About this opportunity

You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a key function within the Finance community of LBG. We're a team of c.300 colleagues, with responsibilities including financial reporting and control, people and culture initiatives and strategy implementation.

The team is at the start of a significant Transformation journey, and you'll be part of influencing, designing and implementing Finance Transformation over the next 5 years, both within GFS and beyond!

What you'll be doing

You'll lead and develop a team of approximately 12 colleagues responsible for financial control and reporting for LBG Commercial Banking division. As a Senior Manager you'll role model strong financial control behaviours; influence key senior partners and contribute to broader strategic direction and business decision making by providing insight, control and thought leadership.

Accountabilities will include:

• Leading the operations of the team, including managing capacity, ensuring monthly and quarterly control and reporting deadlines are met;
• Establishing effective relationships with partners within Commercial Banking Finance and Business teams, including presenting at senior level meetings and supporting Commercial Banking strategic aims;
• Establishing and driving a strong financial control & risk framework with completion of monthly reporting, both internally and externally;
• Leading on issue management, communicating and facilitating resolution
• Leading a development focused team and demonstrating continuous learning and self-development.
• Actively contribute to the GFS extended leadership team by driving activity on one of our people pillars.

About us

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

A qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or have alternatively gained a similar level of expertise acquired through substantial experience in a finance function.

• Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues, building strong diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group
• Passion for Financial control and reporting and questioning mindset;
• Experience of leading and developing a team
• Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement against a constantly evolving landscape
• Bring a problem-solving approach with the ability to challenge and constructively debate key issues. Works collaboratively with a diverse group of partners, utilising well-developed relationship skills
• Ability to assess the impact of change on products, systems, processes and people.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

JOB TITLE: Workplace Experience Co-ordinator

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh/ Glasgow / Dunfermline/ Belfast/ Chester/ London

SALARY: £28,329 - £29,820

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: This role involves spending up to five days a week, or 100% of your time at one of our office location.

We're building a trailblazing workplace experience team, and we'll completely transform how we manage our buildings.

We're looking for customer centric people, that'll take ownership of LBG workplace experiences. You'll need to have passion for customer service and be a workplace role model driving LBG culture within our workplaces.

It's our goal to ensure our buildings are safe, secure, have a sense of community and are places that colleagues love to work.

What you'll get from us

• The chance to be part of an industry leading business area with a great team culture.

• Exposure to senior leadership across the group and opportunities to grow your network

• The opportunity to have a real positive impact on the lives of our people

Day to day, you'll:

• Co-ordinate the colleague experience within your site including being the first point of contact for colleagues, supporting colleagues with day-to-day queries, listening to colleague feedback, working with our Workplace Experience Assistant Manager to ensuring our buildings are safe, secure, have a sense of community and places that colleagues love to work from

• Ensure our buildings are safe and secure through regular operational checks including fire doors, fire risk assessment and hygiene checks - feeding in findings to the Workplace Experience Assistant Manager.

• Support our communities, drive employee engagement overseeing events and communications including in-house or off-site activities, socials and celebrations for employee engagement, marketing, and talent attraction, coordinating all details from inception to execution

• You'll empower colleagues on site to use our spaces, tech & tools in line with our design standards through onboarding tours and tech showcases, and then challenging our colleague behaviours to embed our workplace habits and bring to life our design.

• Co-ordinating and sending communications for the local workplace including leaders and colleague messaging and updating community on any incidents and repairs and interact with local colleagues and leaders through online communications, digital signage and regular forums including running our local workplace council and supporting our local leadership group, including fulfilling actions from forums to enhance the overall workplace.

• Ensuring the office runs smoothly, is safe, and is clean and tidy - checking on meeting room set up, IT first fix triage, removing old equipment, furniture, or appliances. Proactively spotting faults. Providing event support for business units, restocking stationery and printer hubs, supporting colleagues with DSE equipment, locker management, lost property, and meeting room technology

We will be holding a find out more call on Wednesday 20th November at 10am. If you would be interested in attending please reach out to jess.randell-

What we're looking for:

• You love working at Lloyds Banking Group and have a passion for your local workplace.

• You care about colleagues and want to make a difference to their working day and how they feel about their workplaces.

• You have good stakeholder management skills and have the ability to build relationships with those around you quickly - understanding needs and putting others at ease.

• You have an ability to think creatively and facilitate group ideation.

• You can produce engaging, and clear communications intended for colleagues.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• You have existing experience supporting the running of our workplace.

• You have knowledge of Health & Safety in the workplace.

• You have experience running both large and small-scale events - preferably within Lloyds Banking Group

• You can show strong evidence of pro-active networking, including engagement with external organisations and events.

• You think differently to others - Able to demonstrate an entrepreneurial and innovative approach to your role.

• You have experience listening to colleagues through a variety of methods

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.

If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, 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

• 24 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A variety of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today!

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Search Recruitment are partnering with an Edinburgh based business to recruit a Finance Manager to provide strategic financial guidance and support the senior leadership team.

Within the role, you'll be responsible for delivering insightful financial analysis, managing cash flow, overseeing regulatory compliance, and leading the budgeting and financial planning processes.

If you're a Qualified or Qualified by Experience Accountant looking to join a supportive, dynamic team and are comfortable engaging with key stakeholders at all levels of business, you'd be encouraged to apply.

Your key responsibilities will include:
* Support senior management with data-driven financial insights to help achieve strategic and financial objectives.
* Prepare and present accurate monthly management accounts and cash flow forecasts.
* Manage and streamline accounting processes to maximise efficiency.
* Oversee cash flow management.
* Produce year-end statutory accounts.
* Ensure compliance with UK and international regulations, including VAT.
* Lead the annual budget process and maintain updated financial forecasts.
* Develop key performance metrics and recommend actions to address variances.
* Identify financial risks and deliver effective mitigation.

Key skills and experience you'll ideally have:
* A Qualified or Qualified by Experience Accountant
* Strong IT and analytical skills.
* Strong strategic finance background.
* Exceptional attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate reporting on time.
* Effective communicator with a collaborative approach.
* Confident delivering strategic analysis and hands-on accounting tasks.

What's in it for you:
* Flexible hybrid working options.
* Opportunities for career progression and personal development.
* Private health insurance.
* A salary range of circa 50k- 60k, depending on experience.

If you'd like to apply or find out more, please submit your CV via the advert at the earliest opportunity or get in touch at fergus.wade@search.co.uk.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

SALARY: £68,202 - 75,780 per annum

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Halifax or Leeds

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our offices in either Edinburgh, Halifax or Leeds. Unfortunately, we can't consider applications that can't come into one of the above specified offices at this time.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Identity & Authentication Platform (ID&Auth), which is responsible for delivering capabilities to enable secure client and digital authentication and identity across all the bank's digital channels.

We are looking for a software engineer with experience in back-end development using Java to join our growing engineering team. You'll be responsible for developing high-quality, scalable services as part of our microservices-based architecture, while continuing to build your skills with the latest tools and frameworks.

In this role, you'll get the chance to work with modern technologies, including microservices architectures, cloud-based infrastructure, and containerized environments.

You'll play a key role in developing, testing, and optimizing back-end services that support seamless user experiences and integrate with various front-end and external systems.

What will you be doing with us?

• Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality back-end services using Java and related technologies. 

• Develop containerized applications using Docker and deploy them in Kubernetes environments. 
  Implement Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to create well-structured, domain-focused systems that reflect business requirements. 

• Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD), ensuring that code is thoroughly tested and of the highest quality. 

• Collaborate closely with the Tech Lead and other engineers to define and prioritize back-end services and APIs. 

• Integrate with front-end components and third-party APIs, ensuring smooth and efficient communication between systems. 

• Optimize and refactor existing codebases for performance, scalability, and maintainability. 

• Implement best practices for security, error handling, logging, and monitoring. 
  Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to improve code quality and team performance.

•  Work closely with the DevOps team to deploy and manage services in cloud environments. 
  Continuously evaluate and implement new tools, technologies, and processes to improve the back-end architecture. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on project goals and timelines. 

ABOUT US

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

We're keeping an open mind for the recruitment of this role. However, as a minimum, you'll be able to demonstrate experience in the below skills:

Essential:

Software Engineering experience - Java

• Strong back-end development experience using Java, with expertise in microservices architecture and Spring Boot

• A passion for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code. 

ID & Authorisation

Understanding of authentication/authorization mechanisms, such as OAuth2, JWT, or IAM.

Containerisation

Experience with containerized applications (Docker) and deploying in Kubernetes environments.

Cloud experience

Familiarity with cloud platforms, such as GCP or Azure.

Agile experience

• Experience working in Agile environments, particularly within Scrum teams.

Communication skills

• Solid communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team.

Desirable:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices.

• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and real-world application.

• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools.

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're committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and creativity.

We're actively seeking to build a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and thinking approaches and would like to encourage applications from under-represented groups from candidates of all ethnicities, cultures and identities, and from candidates that identify as neurodiverse.

As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to support you in showcasing your best self; 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance

• 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

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

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

The role of Service Designer is to support this type of complex change by bringing energy, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation projects.



In this role you will be responsible for realigning end-to-end services across care pathways, providing a sustainable foundation for the future and helping realise a revolution of the service through new clinical technologies.


As a service designer you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team to design services for donors, families, the patients of North West London. This will include services and products across both digital and offline channels.



The role also includes active participation in the development and culture of ICHP as an organisation, sharing responsibility for making ICHP a great place to work, and taking a specific managerial responsibility for the development of colleagues.
• • Simultaneously lead on several external projects and provide input / advice to several others.
• Play a significant role in clarifying the problem that our work is trying to solve from a design perspective. Support partners to reflect productively on what they are wanting to address and why.
• Responsible for: • Ensuring services align with service strategic direction, design principles and user needs
• Leading the co-creation and iteration of design artefacts
• Developing service proposition(s) and service maps to align the delivery team
• Championing the use and value of human centred design tools and techniques throughout the organisation (including but not limited to user research, service mapping, ideation, co-design, prototyping and storyboarding)
• Designing, leading, and facilitating co-design workshops with wide range of stakeholders including end users


Essential requirements
• Experience of applying service design methodologies
• Extensive further experience gained through on the job training in user-centred design disciplines
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office products
• Strong understanding of how digital economy is changing user behaviour and public sector landscape
• Experience applying technical knowledge and experience to create or design workable prototypes, both programs and physical outputs
• Ability to understand users, identify who they are and what their needs are and use these to design approaches or services to meet these needs.

Imperial College Health Partners is a partnership organisation bringing together NHS providers of healthcare services, clinical commissioning groups and leading universities across North West London. We have been designated by NHS England as the Health Innovation (HIN) for North West London, and we are one of 15 HINs across England which make up The Health Innovation Network.

We were created by the NHS to support complex change across the health and care sector – innovating and collaborating for a healthier population.

The NWL Research & Innovation Board has established that, to have more impact through innovation, the work we undertake together needs to focus on a smaller number of priorities. This defined and deliberate portfolio of innovation projects are known as the NWL Missions. These have been identified as:
• Optimising care of long-term conditions (starting with CVD)
• Ensuring the right care setting to reduce harm (starting with the acute pathway)
• Supporting children and young people’s mental health.

As the innovation arm of the NW London ICS, ICHP has been commissioned to facilitate the coordination and collaboration of this Mission-led model.

For more information please visitwww.imperialcollegehealthpartners.com
Scoping and planning
• You play a lead role in the development of project plans, ensuring that the work we do is directly related to solving / resolving the problem we are trying to address, within the available timeframe and resource envelop.
• You proactively look within the organisation for examples of similar projects we have undertaken, and involve colleagues (and external specialists) who have expertise in this area of work; and you consider the range of skills in the organisation to make proposals about the team resources required to undertake the work successfully.
• You determine the planning of appropriate tasks within the project, giving consideration to a wide range of complex activities, including stakeholder management, clinical expert groups and project governance groups; and you make informed judgements about the phasing and feasibility of tasks given decision-points, governance meetings and project resources
• You apply recognised methods of project planning and documentation, providing support to others; and you regularly check back to see that the scope and plan remains relevant for the work being undertaken, proposing options where this needs to be reviewed.
Research and analysis
• You are responsible for selecting appropriate methods of research to address the defined problem / client need, giving consideration to qualitative and quantitative methods; and making recommendations about the most suitable and feasible approach given practical constraints of time and resources. You will involve domain experts from within ICHP’s various skills centres.
• You are responsible for ensuring that research approaches are appropriately rigorous and systematic (i.e. proportionate to the scope of the task), and that it incorporates processes to review best practice and horizon scanning where relevant
• You will ensure that research and analysis findings and conclusions undergo relevant quality checks and quality assurance, finding collaborative and constructive ways to help build conversations about the interpretation of evidence within a project (e.g. by setting up and participating in internal review sessions).
• You are responsible for finding clear and compelling ways to present analysis to a wide variety of stakeholders (and supporting others to do the same) – using appropriate formats, such as written documents or graphical representations. Your analysis will ensure that what is described is directly and explicitly relevant to the project problem definition, and able to inform action.
Delivery, project management and resource management

• You are responsible for the delivery of several defined areas within a project or programme, coordinating your own work and that of others, and ensuring quality standards are met and that work is delivered in a cost-effective way, working with colleagues to adjust plans as required
• You are responsible for keeping an overview of the project and ensuring that progress on your own tasks, and those of others, are visible and on track; and that appropriate team conversations happen, and action is taken, where the project is off-track.
• You are responsible for the development of systems to manage and report on the progress of the project to key groups (such as a programme board), supporting colleagues to keep plans up to date; and you will ensure that timely and clear updates are available to members / clients, as required.
• You seek to apply recognised methods of project management and documentation, providing support to others; and you actively consider project risks and issues, taking action to mitigate and escalate, as required.
• You support in providing guidance and management on the procurement of identified products, equipment, services and facilities – relevant to a project – placing orders and signing invoices where mandated, keeping mindful of budget limitations; and you act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities.
Reflecting and learning

• You participate in structured processes of learning and skills development through the core skills centre teaching sessions, and you actively seek to put these into practice in project work.
• You participate in formal and informal processes of reflection and learning at the end of projects; and you recognise and celebrate successes as well as identifying opportunities for improvement.
• You play a significant role in documenting and sharing lessons learnt related to your specialism, and actively contribute to the development / refinement of methods of practice, showing thought leadership in some defined areas.
Communications and stakeholder engagement

· You are responsible for engaging constructively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of complex issues. You will be able to build key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally to ensure the delivery of projects.

· You are able to convey and discuss complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations, and you are persuasive in putting forward your own view, and that of the organisation

· You will be able to confidently employ a variety of styles of written and verbal communication (including email, written reports, meetings, presentations); and you can exercise good judgement to ensure that the content of communications are relevant, proportionate, and communicated in a style that is appropriate for the situation.

· You can identify the impact of contextual factors on communication, and adapts communication to take account of others’ culture, background and preferred way of communicating

· You ensure that your communication exhibits the highest standards of integrity and respectfulness; and that the form and style that you use is suitable, understandable and professional.

· You encourage and support effective communication between all involved, anticipating barriers to communication

· You develop and maintain respectful and clear communication with people


Personal and people
• You will be responsible for updating the organisation’s tools to make visible the time you have spent on projects, and to give a ‘forward look’ about your availability
• You will seek feedback from others about your work to help identify positive practices and development needs
• You will work with your manager to identify development needs in relation to current and emerging work demands, and your future career aspirations
• You will be responsible for a combination of direct line management and project-based team management.
• You will support others to develop by providing specific and actionable feedback, delivered in a constructive and respectful manner; you will offer help and guidance to others, where appropriate, to support their development or to help them complete their work requirements effectively; and you will proactively identify opportunities for line reports to build and apply their skills in emerging projects that align with their capabilities and development objectives.
• You actively support a culture of learning and development in the organisation, and provide direct support to line reports to reflect on performance and development needs.
• Line management of up to two senior staff (Band 8a)
Quality and improvement
• You are responsible for delivering high quality consistently, and encouraging others to do so, applying and refining recognised methods as set out within the organisation’s skills centres.
• You will work with self-direction and autonomy demonstrating an ability to prioritise your own workload and manage your time to ensure priorities are met and quality is not compromised; and you act within the limits of your own competence and area of responsibility and accountability, seeking help and advice where needed.
• You will work to support the team and the organisation overall, being supportive when people ask for help or support, within reasonable expectations of your capacity and capability.
• You actively contribute to improving quality by developing and refining skills centre methods and approaches, sharing and promoting these approaches across the organisation, and taking action where there is a persistent problem with quality.
Relationship management

• You support good relationship management across a project team, and across the organisation; and you are proactive about forging links within ICHP to understand the spectrum of work that we undertake, and the range of capabilities within the organisation.
• You take responsibility for understanding the stakeholder’s context and challenges, and for developing and maintaining complex relationships across a portfolio of work.
• You can navigate significant ambiguity and can form judgements about action based on reasoned assessment of the context, with direction where required; and you can develop more strategic and recurrent relationships
• You will work with external stakeholders to establish clear and realistic expectations about projects (including milestones, risks and issues); and you can engage productively with project stakeholders when risks or issues arise.
Organisational leadership
• You show leadership by example, taking ownership of your responsibilities, and being willing to be held to accountable for delivery; and you lead across teams, making a felt contribution to the culture of leadership, team work and collaboration.
• You role-model ethical behaviours, developing and communicating standards and expected levels of performance
• You take an interest in the development of the organisation overall, you are prepared to share views about the ICHP constructively, and you play an active role in corporate improvement projects.


This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024

ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Bank Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve. You'll assist with daily living, providing support and companionship and sharing great moments and memories too. It's a chance to bring your dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment. Every day will be different, so you can expect to undertake work that's as varied as it is rewarding. As a Bank Care Assistant, you could be doing anything from supporting residents with their food and drink and following care plans to ensuring that each of our residents has one-to-one time. It's an opportunity to put your skills to meaningful use and develop your career. ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Bank Care Assistant you'll need to have some experience of caring for older people, a can-do approach and excellent communication skills. Your empathy and warm-hearted approach will shine through, but above all, you'll have the compassion needed to deliver the highest standard of care and support for all our residents. In return we'll provide all the training you need to thrive. REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take the growth of everyone who works for us seriously. As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary. If you'd like to use your people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be. tag 5432

ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Bank Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve. You'll assist with daily living, providing support and companionship and sharing great moments and memories too. It's a chance to bring your dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment. Every day will be different, so you can expect to undertake work that's as varied as it is rewarding. As a Bank Care Assistant, you could be doing anything from supporting residents with their food and drink and following care plans to ensuring that each of our residents has one-to-one time. It's an opportunity to put your skills to meaningful use and develop your career. ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Bank Care Assistant you'll need to have some experience of caring for older people, a can-do approach and excellent communication skills. Your empathy and warm-hearted approach will shine through, but above all, you'll have the compassion needed to deliver the highest standard of care and support for all our residents. In return we'll provide all the training you need to thrive. REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take the growth of everyone who works for us seriously. As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary. If you'd like to use your people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be. tag 5432

Grade UE04: £25,433 to £28,081 per annum
Department: Finance - Finance Operations - Accounts Payable
Full time: 35 hours per week
Open-ended: Permanent
Vacancies available: 3

Further exciting opportunities in transforming our Finance Services at The University of Edinburgh!

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Finance Assistant to join our Finance Operations team structure, supporting our Accounts Payable team using our Oracle Fusion "People & Money" system. This position is based at 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week). We are offering hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis). following a successful induction, that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

If you are looking for a new challenge in a great team and have Finance Operations experience (particularly in, Cash, Purchase and Sales Ledger) we’d love to hear from you.

Your skills and attributes for success:

· A professional approach teamed with a passion for exemplar customer service;

· Experience in a Finance role or a relevant qualification;

· Team player mentality; and

· A desire to learn new skills and gain valuable experience.

Make a positive difference in someone’s life by joining The Richmond Fellowship Scotland in our Edinburgh services and helping support the people who need it most in our communities!You will be provided with full training by our excellent and award-winning learning & development team prior to starting. This training initially consists of classroom-based sessions and e-learning as well as the opportunity to shadow current Support Practitioners in their day-to-day role and meet the people you will be supporting.On top of this training we will also finance and support you to achieve your SVQ Level 2 Health and Social Care in-house!About the Role:Your responsibilities will depend on the needs of the individuals that you support and can include:Social Support- Assisting individuals to engage with their communities by planning and attending outings to various clubs and leisure activities such as day centres, bowling, cinema, swimming etc.Medical Support- Administering and monitoring medication.Personal Care- Assist people to maintain their wellbeing by promoting their personal care which would include assistance with showering/bathing, dressing, arranging visits with professionals such as dentists, doctors or opticians, assisting with incontinence care.Practical Support- Helping people to maintain their tenancy by encouraging daily household tasks such as general housework, laundry, ironing, cooking, shopping.About Us:The Richmond Fellowship Scotland provides personalised and outcome-focused support to over 2800 individuals in their own homes across Scotland, making us the country`s largest provider of social care. We support individuals with a variety of different needs such as physical and/or learning disabilities, ongoing mental health issues, alcohol or substance abuse and autism. Some of the people we support can present challenging behaviour or require a high level of personal care.We are Living Wage Accredited with the Living Wage Foundation, and have Gold in Investors in People.Benefits:TRFS rewards scheme (which includes cash-back and discounts at a variety of high street and online retailers)Continuous in-house training opportunities and chances to further your career in social care.Refer a Friend scheme- £150 reward for successfully referring a friend, family member or colleague.Free Membership of Glasgow Credit Union.HSF Health Care plan.Counselling & Life Works service.On top of these excellent practical benefits the biggest benefit of all is the immense job satisfaction you will gain by making a positive difference in someone`s life.How to Apply:If you would be interested in applying then please click on the link at the bottom of the page and submit your application there!If you have any difficulties whilst applying then please get in touch with our Regional Resourcing Consultant by emailing Claire at cmack@trfs.org.ukAll successful Support Practitioner applicants will be given a conditional offer- this is subject to the receipt of satisfactory references, and PVG: having a conviction will not necessarily debar you from working in this sector.All new staff members will be required to register with the SSSC within 3 months of their start date.We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications irrespective of race, ethnicity or national origin, religion, gender, disability, age, marital, parental status or sexual orientation. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate difference and encourage everyone to join us.Closing Date: 28.11.2024 (We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time)

TSB Bank Plc


Job Title: Product Manager Open BankingFunction: Customer BankingLocation: Bristol, Edinburgh, London – Hybrid workingSalary: Competitive plus excellent benefits Closing Date: 7 November 24

At TSB we’re all here to give money confidence to our customers and communities. Wherever you work in TSB you can make a real difference to your career, our business, and the wider community.
How you’ll make a differenceThe Open Banking Product Manager is responsible for helping to define the evolving strategy for Open Banking and informing & influencing the organisation on the areas & opportunities where Open Banking can drive significant benefit to our customers and TSB. You will also be our key lead for Innovation and responsible for delivering our Innovation programme ‘TSB Labs’, in partnership with Fintech Scotland. The key stakeholders for the Open Banking Product Manager are across the organisation in CIO & Customer Banking but also externally with the regulator, TPPs and Fintech Innovators such as FinTech Scotland. You will make a difference in your role by helping to bring commercially driven Open Finance/FinTech opportunities to life for the organisation.
What you’ll bring
- Be a subject matter expert for Open Banking/Open Finance and Innovation across the industry.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management experience at all levels.
- Experience of launching a proposition from Business case through to design and implementation.
- Collaboration is a key part of the role, as you’ll be bringing a number of people on the journey across the subjects of Open Banking/Open Finance & FinTech Innovation.
- A commercially focussed and data led mindset to everything Open Banking/Open Finance and aware of the future regulatory roadmap and wider opportunities of Open Banking & Open Finance for TSB and our customers.
- Good stakeholder management with internal and external stakeholders to help drive engagement of the banks Open Banking/FinTech strategy and pathway for our customers in the years to come. This includes joining regulatory working groups representing TSB to understand developments in the market.What we offer in return
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work/life balance
- An attractive reward and benefits package through myTSB, giving you more of what matters to you.
- A diverse, energising, and collaborative working environment
- A career that’s enriching and full of opportunities. So if this sounds up your street, come join our team, we make things happen! We are TSB. Life Made More.

Connect Appointments are seeking a Purchasing & Finance Assistant for work with our established client in Edinburgh on a temporary-to-permanent basis!

Pay rate: £13.50 per hour

Working within an established team in a newly-refurbished office, the successful Purchasing & Finance Assistant will have previous experience, ideally within a construction/window fabrication business.

The role will require the successful candidate to be experience with Xero accounting package and have an excellent telephone manner and customer care skills.

You will also be taking care of orders from clients and suppliers and placing them on the system so solid administrative and IT skills are required.

Does this sound like the opportunity for you? Get Connected and apply now by submitting your most up-to-date CV, or call our team for a friendly chat on 01324 464 951.

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