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Financial Systems Reporting Analyst Salary: £55,000 p.a. Contract: Six months fixed term Department: Finance We are supporting a not-for-profit organisation in the recruitment of a qualified and confident finance professional to join their finance team on a six-month fixed term contract. This role will provide critical analytical support to the Director of Finance on a project to enhance financial systems, streamline reporting, and strengthen planning analysis. As part of a small, dedicated team of three staff supporting the Director of Finance, the successful candidate will play a key role in eliminating inefficient manual processes, strengthening reporting structures, and improving the quality of financial analysis that underpins decision-making. The organisation s finance system is SAGE 200 , and the project focuses on maximising integration opportunities and enhancing the reporting functionality offered by the SAGE package. Key Responsibilities Lead the implementation of SAGE purchase ordering and invoice recognition modules, invoice and journal approval workflows, and the integration of Ivvy CRM with SAGE, working with the organisation s SAGE partner. Work with the Director of Finance and SAGE partner to develop in-house use of the SAGE Data Analytics module, strengthening monthly reporting outputs, reconciliation controls, and supporting annual budgeting and forward-planning. Support the development of reporting outputs from the CRM system to enable pricing, cost-benefit analysis, and scenario planning for a trading subsidiary. Candidate Profile Qualifications & Training Qualified CCAB accountant with at least 2 years post-qualification experience. Skills & Knowledge Strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Advanced Excel modelling capabilities. Experience of SAGE 200 or similar financial systems. Proven track record in delivering process improvements and clear financial analysis. Personal Attributes Self-motivated, solutions-oriented, and highly organised. Excellent communication and relationship-building skills. Collaborative team player with a strong service ethos.

Exposure Management Analyst Location: London (Hybrid 3 days in office per week) Salary: £60,000 + 15% bonus + full benefits package A rare opportunity has arisen for an analytically minded and technically confident Exposure Management Analyst to join a specialist reinsurer with a focused class of business and a national-level remit. This is not a traditional catastrophe modelling role instead, you ll be central to a highly strategic exposure team supporting data collection, validation, analysis, and internal modelling for one of the UK s most important risk pools. This role offers a unique blend of technical exposure management , project-based process enhancement , and client-facing engagement with over 100 insurer and reinsurer members. It s ideal for someone looking to develop both depth and breadth from SQL and Power BI automation to external relationship-building and high-impact internal reporting. Key Responsibilities: Support the full cycle of exposure data collection and validation, including annual returns Liaise directly with market members to resolve data issues and improve submissions Maintain and enhance internal exposure enrichment processes (e.g. geocoding, policy matching) Produce internal MI reports and dashboards for actuarial, executive and underwriting teams Support retrocession and cat bond placement through robust exposure insights Contribute to projects improving the team s analytics, reporting and operational processes Work cross-functionally with consulting and analytical teams on broader exposure initiatives What makes this role different: No reliance on third-party vendor models exposure data is modelled in-house High visibility across the UK insurance market Blend of hands-on data work and external-facing responsibility Tight-knit, collaborative team with room to influence and grow Opportunity to build your external profile in the exposure space Who we re looking for: Strong technical skills in SQL, VBA and Excel Experience with Power BI (or another MI/reporting tool) Understanding of exposure management principles (not necessarily terrorism-specific) Strong communication skills and stakeholder confidence Highly organised with an eye for data quality, governance and process improvement Ideally degree-educated in a quantitative, technical or risk-related subject The Offer: £60,000 base salary 15% target bonus 25 days annual leave (plus an extra day every 5 years) 5 days volunteering leave Hybrid working: 3 days per week in office (including one Monday and one Friday per month) Core hours 10 00 with flexible start and finish times

Job Advert: Senior UI Designer - Shape the Future of Design Systems! Position Overview: Join our transformative journey at a well-known publishing and educational firm. Are you ready to revolutionize the end-to-end customer experience? We're seeking an exceptional Senior UI Designer to be a driving force in our digital product team. As we craft cutting-edge digital solutions for the global education sector, your expertise will help us shape a remarkable future. Your Role: Take the reins in sculpting our new design system. Your creative prowess will mould guidelines, patterns, and components that harmonize with our brand identity. Empower our teams to craft extraordinary user experiences that resonate with our diverse user base. With the freedom to excel, your contributions will redefine design excellence. Key Responsibilities: Design System Evolution: Be the architect of our new design system, orchestrating guidelines, patterns, and data visualizations. Forge a system that echoes our brand and supports versatile user interactions. Polished UI Designs: Collaborate seamlessly with UX designers to transform wireframes and prototypes into captivating, userfriendly UI designs. Continuous Refinement: Elevate the design system using user feedback, data insights, and emerging trends. Advocate for its adoption and maintain comprehensive documentation. Inclusivity Champion: Uphold accessibility best practices, ensuring our products resonate with all users. Collaboration Extraordinaire: Partner closely with diverse teams, conveying design decisions with clarity. Enhance design quality by offering constructive feedback during design reviews. Your Skills: A mastery of UI design principles, color theory, typography, and layout design. Proven experience crafting and maintaining design systems, style guides, and component libraries, including data visualizations. A solid foundation in user-centered design principles and best practices. Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and their integration into UI designs. Proficiency in Figma and design system tools like Storybook. Basic understanding of front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for effective collaboration. A collaborative spirit, thriving in partnerships with UX designers, product managers, and developers. A keen eye for detail, meticulously preserving consistency and pixel-perfection throughout the design system. Innovative mindset, driven to explore new design trends, techniques, and tools to elevate the design system and overall product experience. Additional Information and Compensation: Pay: £430 - £480 per day (Umbrella) Contract: Initial 4-month contract Location: Central London office presence required once a week In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.

My client, an innovative and dynamic investment bank, is looking to hire a Data Manager to maintain and interpret client interactions data and some CRM development work. Main tasks Take significant responsibility in improving and maintaining client records in the CRM system, including classification of all clients receiving Research Take significant responsibility in ensuring Research aggregator permissioning is confined to those who should be receiving research and that this correlates with the inbound research readership reports Responsibility for compiling, checking and submitting Research and Corporate Access interaction data to institutional clients, where required Keep abreast of emerging technologies and assess key functionality, in line with the business goals and strategy Work closely with the Technology department to migrate the interaction data to automated submission via aggregators, while retaining and documenting the manual checking process Provide reports and work continually to improve reporting effectiveness and efficiencies across the account management function Assistance to Head of Account Management and Head of Research on ad hoc project work relating to Account Management; representative for the equities business when working on technological improvements, especially to the CRM system Regulatory responsibilities Maintain a high standard of conduct, ethical standards, and values Adhere to and proactively enhance the firm's compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and codes of conduct in all jurisdictions Work to identify risks and enhance control across the business Report control weaknesses, illegal, suspicious, or unusual activity Maintain an appropriate level of competence through ongoing training, making requests for updates or development as required About the organisation They place long-term partnership at the heart of their mission and strive to become the best investment bank of a generation. They have a large client base and operate at the forefront of the industry with expertise in the UK market. Any experience in financial markets in a complex and highly regulated environment is going to be beneficial to this role.

An investment bank in central London are recruiting for a data integration engineer. This is a hands-on role responsible for designing, developing, testing, releasing and third line support of in-house system integrations. The data integration engineer will come with a sound understanding of the SDLC for system integrations. Key responsibilities and duties As a data integration engineer you will be developing integration jobs using Talend Data Integration platform and Talend Studio, T-SQL, Azure DevOps, SQL Services, and Service Bus The data integration engineer will be a key engineer on all projects related to the data warehouse, MI, or fast-moving financial data You will be supporting and promoting integration platform across the engineering teams As a data integration engineer you will also be migrating the remaining legacy integrations and data processing applications to Talend Data Integration platform You'll work closely with other data integration engineers, software engineers, DBAs, and infrastructure engineers to design systems and solutions Data integration engineers are responsible for ensuring that code is written to the highest standards with an appropriate level of test coverage including unit, system, and integration tests As well as this you will also be working alongside business analysts and business stakeholders to identify the best solutions and technologies to solve current and future problems As a data integration engineer you will support existing applications as third line support when necessary What do you need to apply to this role? Cloud: Azure Storage, Azure App service, SQL Database Platforms: Talend Data Integration, Salesforce, Fidessa, BlueMatrix, Dealogic, Symphony messaging Tools: Talend Studio, MSSMS, TFS 2017/Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Jira, Confluence Languages: Java 8 and 11, T-SQL, SOQL DB: Azure SQL Database, SQL Server 2016, MySQL, PostgreSQL Methodologies: Agile, DevOps Concepts: ELT/ETL, DWH, APIs (RESTful), FTP protocols, ESB, Unit and Integration testing

I am working with an exciting organisation who are looking to step up their technology and make major investments and they are hiring a data engineer to come in and take responsibility for the development and maintenance of the Data Lake and ETL jobs to make their processes and operations robust, scalable, and efficient, as well as support self-service initiatives within the business. Your focus will be on ensuring all business critical data is stored in the data lake, is easibly accessible and available on time. The data is used for reporting, analytics, and other processes. Whilst moving to the new target infrastructure, you will support the legacy data infrastructure which mainly consists of SQL databases using stored procedures and SSIS packages to move data around. Key responsibilities Work with new Big Data technologies for data lake Maintain legacy data infrastructure CI/CD Work with the business and communicate with people directly to ensure their needs are met Provide the business with clear and easy-to-understand data Data validation to ensure the quality matches high standards Work with the team to provide pragmatic data solutions to business users Contribute to tech stack using ideas and trends from the industry Review code, architecture, and lead the team in providing the highest quality solutions Technology stack includes: NiFi Airflow Python for ETL jobs to Hadoop data lake For easy access to data in Hadoop, they use Hive They believe in picking the best tool for the job. The stack consists of a vatiety of technologies that can best solve problems. You will have a voice, in using, reducing, or expanding that stack. What will you need to apply for this role? Curiosity and an intrinsic desire to investigate and understand a problem A willingness to try out technologies that you may be unfamiliar with Good communication skills A good understanding of architecture and code Knowledge of big data technologies; for example but not necessarily, Hadoop, Hive, NiFi, SQL, Python

JAVA DEVELOPER - JAVA, FINTECH One of the fastest growing FinTech companies in the world are building a high preforming engineering team. Already recognised as a global leader in this space, they are looking to continually grow and want passionate and inquisitive Java Developers at mid-level and senior level to join at this exciting time. You will build high quality software while solving the most interesting and challenging technical problems around while working with a close knit, collaborative and supportive team. Location: London Salary: up to £115k Skills: Technically strong developers with extensive hands-on Java experience Ability to write good quality code - read/comprehend code as well as write it Willingness to help & support others Perks: Flexible working Professional development & training/conference budget Friday afternoons to work on your own projects Tech outreach - support for: presenting, blogging Open source projects Clear career progression If you are interested, please send me a copy of your CV as soon as possible.

Validation of quant models, initially in IRB Credit Ratings and FRTB IMA space. Quantitative analysis and review of model frameworks, assumptions, data, and results Designing, modelling and prototyping challenger models when required Testing models numerical implementations and reviewing documentations Checking the adherence to governance requirements Documentation of findings in validation reports, including raising recommendations for model improvements Ensuring models are validated in line with regulatory requirements and industry best practice Tracking remediation of validation recommendations Experience required: Experience in risk-modelling (model development or validation) Knowledge of IRB credit risk models Knowledge of Market risk modelling and of FRTB Experience with other risk models (Economic Capital, Stress Testing, etc.) Experience with Derivatives pricing models Competencies: Strong background in Math and Probability theory - applied to finance Good knowledge of Data Science and Statistical inference techniques Good programming level in Python or R or equivalent Good understanding of financial products Computer simulations and numerical approximation methods Awareness of latest technical developments in financial mathematics, pricing, and risk modelling Modelling and pricing of financial derivatives Experience with C++ or C# or equivalent Up-to-date knowledge of regulatory capital requirements for market and credit risk

A HealthTech start-up that I've partnered with is looking to bring on a VP of Engineering to grow and develop the engineering team through their next phase of growth! They use virtual reality to create simulations that provide deep data insights and knowledge, harnessing the very latest AI techniques. Looking for an experienced engineering manager who is passionate about motivating and inspiring teams. You will be working closely with the CTO to co-developer technical strategy, collaborating with development leadership teams and coordinate work between engineering functions. You will be recruiting and on-boarding new engineers while maintaining an open culture that values learning from failures as importantly as successes. - You will need to have experience managing multiple teams, as well as line management experience to senior engineers and managers - You will need to have strong knowledge and experience of 3D development and cloud computing (AWS is their cloud platform provider) The engineering team is fully remote throughout Europe with the head office based in London. This opportunity is open to candidates based in all countries within Europe! If the idea of being a part of a start-up excites and motivates you, then please get in touch! You can email me directly at .

Our client, a leading Housing Association, is seeking an experienced Business Intelligence and Data Analyst to join them on their Digital Transformation journey. You will be instrumental in developing and delivering the company's vision to improve customer experience, through technology solutions. What will you be doing in this role? Assisting with the migration of data from an on premise system to the Cloud Creating and maintaining a SQL data Warehouse Responding to staff helpdesk enquiries Analysing data to identify poor data to support data cleansing Analysing data to confirm its integrity, statistical validity and compliance with regulatory guidance Identifying and addressing areas of weakness in information systems in relation to data in general (this could include the deployment of new analytic and data reporting tools) Collecting, interpreting, and presenting data in new and insightful ways to help the business understand and improve performance You'll also be developing detailed knowledge of business processes, KPIs, and information systems to position yourself as an internal authority on reporting integrity and KPI design What do you need to apply for this role? Demonstrable strong skills in SQL and database reporting tools Must have a good understanding of Data Warehouse development and ETL concepts MS Excel Advanced level Experience developing PowerBI dashboards desired Experience working with large data sets including identification and correction of inconsistencies Management information reporting experience Microsoft Business Intelligence suite specifically SSIS and SSMS Ability to build relationships with stakeholders Business Intelligence - Data Analyst - Housing