Location: Bath/London/Edinburgh
Who are we?
At Seccl, we’re on a mission to rebuild the infrastructure of investments and advice. We provide the technology that allows people to access financial markets – buying and selling investments and holding them in tax wrappers like ISAs and pensions.
Our software allows ambitious fintechs to quickly get to market with innovative investment or advice products – and helps financial advisers and investment managers to build stronger, more valuable businesses, by operating their own investment platform.
Ultimately, we want to create a world where everybody can access the financial markets, or find the help they need, more easily and affordably than ever.
We are part of the Octopus Group – an innovative, £12.5bn+ group of companies that’s on a mission to breathe new life into energy and financial services and improve the lives of millions of people.
About the role
We’re looking for a Technical Lead to join our growing team. You’ll make a difference in this role with your extensive technical and actuarial experience gained from working with UK pension, platform and investment firms. You will play a key role in supporting the business making sure our solutions are at the cutting edge of the industry and built around our unwavering focus on creating simple digital journeys for our customers.
You will be part of our small propositions team, providing the wider Seccl business with support, domain experience and industry expertise. The team also support key business projects and initiatives, ensuring we are focused on our target market, understanding the needs of our customers as well as any relevant technical aspects.
What will you be doing?
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Illustration - taking on responsibility for data, assumptions and calculations required to power our illustration solution. This would include supporting day-to-day queries, research, competitor benchmarking, testing and implementing regular updates and new bespoke builds for each SIPP partnership.
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Product governance / commercial - as part of the product governance regular reviews process, you will create and continually assess the commercial viability of both new onboarding and existing firms. Enabling the business to validate and prioritise the attractiveness of firms in a fair and consistent way.
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Pricing models - working with our finance team to create a range of pricing models which enable us to continually offer flexible and bespoke modular fees, allowing us to flex our approach based on firm, functionality and proposition. You will be enabling Seccl to do this with confidence and will reflect the real-world actual costs and revenue involved. You will also be benchmarking these against industry competitors so that we can assess ‘value for money’ with both customer duty and competitive advance lenses.
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Analytics – taking all our data and creating value for the organisation, understanding our customers, our competitors and our business. From commercial viability, competitor pricing comparisons and trading trends, you will support the detailed assessment of our data to help us understand what matters.
Who are we looking for?
You’ll be someone who:
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Has significant experience in the UK platform, investment, and wealth management industry.
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Possesses the ability to analyse complex financial scenarios in the context of the UK regulated investment and pension environment.
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Can shape and refine strong commercial presentations and deliver them with impact to the team.
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Has the ability to model business cases with multiple underlying scenarios with the view to gaining competitive advantage.
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Has experience and ability to manage external suppliers as well as internal stakeholders.
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Demonstrates a passion for making financial models accessible with ability to become an advocate in this area across the business.
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Is working towards becoming qualified as an actuary (FIA / FFA).
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Is interested and literate in technology.
It would be nice to have…
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A qualification as an actuary (FIA / FFA).
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Familiarity with multiple investment platform technologies and systems.
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A good understanding of the regulatory environment and a broad knowledge of the commercial environment facing product and system providers within which Seccl operates.
Our culture and working environment
We’re a group of around 100 people on a purpose-driven mission to allow anyone to invest. We’re a regulated technology business with a mindset to shake things up, and the substance to not screw them up.
We are proud to cultivate a culture first, human environment and genuinely listen to our people about what matters to them most. As a result, we’re proud we’ve cultivated a transparent and inclusive environment that encourages diversity of thought, challenge and experimentation.
We have offices in Bath, London and (soon to be!) Edinburgh. We’re working as a hybrid team supporting each of our people to choose how they work best. We’ve always been supportive of flexible working that focuses on delivery and impact, rather than hours worked.
Don’t just take our word for it - check out our Glassdoor page for the latest reviews, or our Instagram and LinkedIn for company updates and insights from the team.
Our benefits
We offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including:
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays + day off on your birthday
- 6% employer pension contribution, private health cover, GP online and life assurance
- Enhanced parental leave and flexibility to integrate your home and work life in a trusted environment
- Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy, mental health support and time off, and access to the Outliers wellbeing community.
- Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Moneycoach, Octopus share investment plan and Seccl invest (our own platform for you to manage your investments)
- Perkbox – range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts
- Commitment to continuous learning with free access to over 10,000 on-line training courses
Like what you see?
Just send your CV to people@seccl.tech and Karoline or Janette from our people team will be in touch.