The Access group

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The Access group Telford, Shropshire
May 01, 2024
Full time
Partnership Manager, Public Sector - Payments SoftwareJoin the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about?At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit's to Construction, and many more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. Our Partnership and overall indirect strategy is integral to the growth and success of the Payments division. We have continuously adapted our position in the market to understand the rise of the ISV / Software platforms, PSPs, Banks, related technologies, key influencers and multiple other stakeholders to indirectly distribute our Payment technology solutions through our partners' network. We have a rich technology product stack and offer payment gateway, direct debit, acquiring and Payment Facilitator solutions across a multitude of exciting sectors.About you:We are looking for an exceptional Business Developer who will be responsible for continuing our considerable success in the Public Sector market, acting with an entrepreneurial spirit and quickly identify the technologies, influencers and market trends, leading to large revenue opportunities through our strategic partners.You will need tenured experience in selling payment technology solutions and establishing, implementing, and developing long term, multi-territory strategic sales and partnerships. Additionally, a solid network across Public Sector would be a considerable advantage, specifically in Local Government, Healthcare and Housing Software.In addition to your outreach, we will support you with demand gen resources to strengthen new engagement, such as a BDE, tools, Pre-Sales, Marketing and divisional leaders who will support multi-threaded Partner engagement.Day-to-day, you will:• Develop and execute a comprehensive go-to-market sales strategy and take ownership for all new business opportunities across Public Sector.• Build your pipeline and deliver new business revenue targets.• Sell Referral & Integrated partner models focussing on revenue priorities.• Spend a proportion of the working week segmenting the market and engaging with Public Sector Technologies and helping your BDE open the right doors.• Build deep, long term Win-Win partnerships, developing an extensive understanding of a partners' business, driving new innovative propositions and solutions to deliver long term revenue streams.• You will be a subject matter expert with a genuine passion for a specified vertical(s), maintaining an excellent knowledge of platforms, solution providers, distributors and aggregation points.• Lead full engagement for new business, from identification of the lead to live.• Understand and articulate the Access Group portfolio of Software solutions and cross sell into your partner network. (ERP, People, Legal, Financial Wellbeing, Hospitality etc).• Represent Access at industry events, become a brand ambassador, maintain a solid public profile.Your skills and experiences might also include: • High energy and dynamic professional with a strong work ethic.• Tenured experience selling payment technology to merchants or software platforms. • Have demonstrable experience and a history of achieving annual revenue goals.• Motivated to prospect and hunt.• Proven as a target oriented self-starter, with a high energy work ethic.• Strong articulation of the market's payment landscape, including trends, competition, growth areas, technologies, opportunities, and overall an in-depth knowledge of payment solutions.• Proactive, energetic, tenacious, accountable and a passionate individual with the ability to go above and beyond, always striving for success.• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.• A role model who possesses a strong industry reputation and excellent payment network.What does Access offer you?We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you. At Access we're all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't match perfectly, we'd still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for. We love the fact that we're all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it's just more fun!What's holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.
The Access group Loughborough, Leicestershire
May 01, 2024
Full time
Risk data analyst Hybrid Loughborough Office Please note only applications who are near the office can be considered Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about?At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit's to Construction, and many more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. About you:As a Risk data analyst, you will enjoy being part of a busy, friendly team that provides risk expertise and knowledge across the payments division. Passionate to learn, you will own the division's Risk Reporting and will provide risk oversight to support the growth of the business. Day-to-day, you will: Own executive risk reporting for the payments division. Monitor key risk metrics, highlighting trends and providing insights on the performance of the portfolio against set goals. Support the Risk team in creating and maintaining automated dashboards and operational reports. Develop analytical tools (alerts, models, strategies) to mitigate risk. Perform exploratory data analysis on emerging trends and communicate insights and recommendations. Work on risk related projects as assigned.Your skills and experiences might also include: Previous experience working in data analytics in the payments or financial technology industry. Advanced SQL Experience with Python or R a plus Experience using visualisation tools such as Tableau or PowerBi. Highly productive and self-motivated. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written with customer / stakeholder focus in mind. Extensive multi-tasking and prioritisation skills, able to excel in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing prioritiesWhat does Access offer you?We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you. At Access we're all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't match perfectly, we'd still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for. We love the fact that we're all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it's just more fun!What's holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.
The Access group Loughborough, Leicestershire
Apr 30, 2024
Full time
Communications and Change Advisor Please note this is a 9 month fixed term contract Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about?At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit's to Construction, and many more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. About youAs part of the Employee Success Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) team, your mission will be to help create a brilliant experience for colleagues at a global technology business that has recently been acquired by Access. Working across multiple business areas and geographies, you'll manage and deliver communications for colleagues in the US, UK, and Europe as they go through the complex, challenging, and rewarding experience of joining Access. Working closely with members of the Employee Success M&A team and other stakeholders across M&A, you'll help plan and deliver communications that inform, engage, equip and connect people as they take their first steps into our business. You'll be a team player with an eye for detail, excellent planning and presentation skills, and the ability to multi-task across different channels, audiences, plans and activities. You'll also understand the huge positive impact we can make with our communications. You'll be able to bring clarity where there is confusion, spark where there is indifference, and a cool calm head when things get hectic. This role reports into the Head of Employee Success M&A Communications. Day-to-day, you will: • Own and develop the full integration communication plan for the acquired business, working closely with the Employee Success M&A Project Lead and Programme Lead to make sure communications are fully in sync with the project plan. • Manage and deliver communications for acquired colleagues in the UK, US and Europe on key integration topics including IT and Systems Migration, and the process of switching to Access terms, conditions and benefits. • Attend regular M&A project meetings to provide updates on communication activity and milestones. • Prepare Access Integration Leads and acquired senior leaders for key communications through integration, for example virtual town halls, Q&As, and training sessions. • Design regular updates plus ad-hoc messages for acquired colleagues to help keep them informed on their integration journey. • Liaise with Integration Champions at each acquired business to gather feedback on communications and maintain the Integration Communications SharePoint site for their business • Provide insights and input to inform the Change Management plans for the acquired business. • Attend all-hands calls, helping to facilitate Q&As, record sessions where necessary and coordinate follow-ups. Your skills and experiences will include: • A passion for providing clear and compelling communications for colleagues going through a complex change in their lives at work. • Excellent copywriting skills. • Excellent presenting, planning and organising skills • A proactive mentality to getting things done with an ability to constructively challenge to get the best results • Multi-tasking - being able to prioritise tasks within a complex global comms plan with many different audiences. • The ability to build relationships and handle multiple stakeholders in a fast-moving, occasionally hectic environment • Working confidently and collaboratively in a team environment • An eye for detail • Excellent working knowledge of all Office 365 toolsWhat does Access offer you?We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you. At Access we're all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Be You. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't match perfectly, we'd still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for. We love the fact that we're all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it's just more fun!What's holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.
The Access group Loughborough, Leicestershire
Apr 27, 2024
Full time
Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about?At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit's to Construction, and many more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. About you:You know that technical excellence is at the heart of delivering the best possible outcomes for our clients and the customers that rely upon them and you always place what's best for the customer at the heart of what you do. You have very strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are a creative thinker, with strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the desire to share your knowledge and experience to develop your team so that they can rise to your exacting standards.You will have a strong grasp of PCI in all its forms and will have previously worked as a technical leader in a PCI environment.Day-to-day, you will:• Ensure that PCI compliance is first and foremost in all operational engineering processes.• Make sure that PCI mandated tasks are performed at the correct frequency to the required standard and that these tests are recorded correctly.• Oversee the deployment and configuration of servers, virtual machines, and application components, ensuring that any such change is PCI compliant and that the required documentation is updated, and any additional checks or tests are performed.• Keep up to date with changes in PCI standards and ensure that our operational processes are updated accordingly.• Respond to PCI security incidents, leading the troubleshooting efforts and coordinating with our teams to minimize impact and ensure any lessons are learned.• Ensure compliance with other security standards and best practices, regularly reviewing system configurations and access controls to protect sensitive data and maintain PCI-DSS, PCI-3DSv2 and PCI-P2PE compliance.• Provide leadership and mentorship to the technical team for all things PCI, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.• Ensure the team maintain comprehensive system documentation, including architecture diagrams, configuration details, and troubleshooting guides, to facilitate knowledge sharing and future system enhancements.Skills and Experiences likely include:• Extensive understanding of the specific issues that face payment processing systems in the payments domain, particularly PCI-DSS, PCI-3DSv2 and PCI-P2PE.• Extensive experience of working in a DevOps culture, embracing automation, promoting collaboration, and ensuring a customer-centric approach.• Excellent communication and leadership skills to guide the team and collaborate with other departments effectively.• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to help your team diagnose and resolve complex system issues efficiently.• Proven ability to create and maintain comprehensive processes and to encourage system documentation and knowledge sharing within the team to enhance overall system support.• Experience in leading technical projects, coordinating team efforts, and working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.• A willingness to stay updated with the latest trends, best practices, and emerging technologies and PCI requirements.What does Access offer you?We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you. At Access we're all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't match perfectly, we'd still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for. We love the fact that we're all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it's just more fun!What's holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.
The Access group Loughborough, Leicestershire
Apr 27, 2024
Full time
Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about?At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit's to Construction, and many more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. About you:We are seeking an ambitious Datacentre Team Manager to play a key role in leading an engineering team that is responsible for the operation of critical platforms supporting thousands of customers and millions of citizens. You will be at the heart of the team that designs, builds, and operates modern, secure, high availability and high-performance payments processing platforms and other key solutions that maximize the efficiency of operations for our customers These platforms are a mix of public and private cloud, using the latest technologies to ensure that they deliver excellent service to our customers.Day-to-day, you will:• Lead the infrastructure and software deployment teams for all payment processing and related systems, collaborating with the other members of the wider Product & Engineering and Customer facing teams to ensure scalability, security, and high availability based on comprehensive demand management and capacity planning.• Oversee the deployment and configuration of servers, virtual machines, and application components, ensuring the integration of software and hardware to maintain a robust system infrastructure.• Ensure system performance and resource utilization are monitored using various tools, and that your team are promptly identifying and resolving any performance bottlenecks or issues that may arise.• Respond to critical incidents and service outages, leading the troubleshooting efforts and coordinating with your team to minimize downtime and restore services efficiently.• Lead the team to Implement automation to enhance and standardise deployments and upgrades.• Ensure compliance with security standards and best practices, regularly reviewing system configurations and access controls to protect sensitive data and maintain PCI-DSS compliance.• Collaborate with external partners to ensure seamless integration with payment authorization and settlement services, ensuring the team resolve any technical issues that may arise during the integration process.• Provide leadership and mentorship to the technical team, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.• Work closely with other departments in a DevOps approach to align system operations with business requirements, identify improvements that can be made to existing systems, simplify and automate deployments, promote effective communication and collaboration.• Ensure the team maintain comprehensive system documentation, including architecture diagrams, configuration details, and troubleshooting guides, to facilitate knowledge sharing and future system enhancements.• Create and implement the most effective infrastructure, environment and application monitoring and alerting processes, maximizing the capabilities of the available tools to ensure delivery of a proactive monitoring and alerting solution.Your skills and experiences might also include: • Extensive experience in managing teams running complex, secure data centre based systems that are operating 24/7/365 at 99.99% uptime and processing high volumes of transactions.• Some understanding of the specific issues that face payment processing systems in the payments domain, particularly PCI would be helpful.• Extensive experience of working in a DevOps culture, embracing automation, promoting collaboration, and ensuring a customer-centric approach.• Excellent communication and leadership skills to guide the team and collaborate with other departments effectively.• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to help your team diagnose and resolve complex system issues efficiently.• Proven ability to create and maintain comprehensive processes and to encourage system documentation and knowledge sharing within the team to enhance overall system support.• Experience in leading technical projects, coordinating team efforts, and working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.• A willingness to stay updated with the latest trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in server based systems engineering.What does Access offer you?We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you.
The Access group Brentwood, Essex
Feb 05, 2022
Full time
About you: Reporting to the Operations Centre Manager, as a Operations Centre Engineer, you will play a key role administering and supporting infrastructure platforms (public, private and hybrid clouds) and BaaS/DRaaS services to support the business and Access customer base, ensuring that all systems remain available, operate efficiently and are service performant. Working closely with Senior Systems Engineers, you will be exposed to hands on, platform and hypervisor implementation, management and troubleshooting together associated systems support. You will need to apply your knowledge of compute, hypervisor, storage, backup and replication solutions to ensure best practice configuration, performance and security. This is a technical role but also carries a strong need for service and SLA orientated thinking with a customer first mentality. Day-to-day, you will: Proactively handle technical problems, incidents and service requests, change requests and their resolutions via tickets and calls in our ITIL compliant ITSM solution FreshService. Perform Datacentre / infrastructure platform installations i.e. physical hardware, cabling and power including its post-deployment administration, monitoring and ongoing support. The scope includes compute, storage, hypervisor systems, platform networking, backup and replication software that assure our services and the Windows and Linux infrastructure management servers that control them. Deploy system patches and upgrades based on vender supported matrices and recommendations, continually looking to optimise these BAU processes. Improve platform visibility and availability by ensuring systems, services and thresholds are correctly monitored and any issue alerted is resolved quickly and correctly. Work closely with Principal & Senior Systems engineers to ensure platforms remain optimised and performant, you will conduct log analysis and follow audit trails to understand root causes of issues and implement improvements. Innovate recommendations for operational efficiencies and working practices including automation. Carry out technical and operations standards and procedures, maintain and update technical documentation. Participate in the on-call rota. As a well-rounded Systems Engineer, your Skills and Experiences likely include: Good experience working with VMware vSphere 6.5 or higher, working towards VCP certification if not already certified Experience with enterprise server and associated hardware technology (Cisco blade compute technologies advantageous) Experience of Virtual environment backup systems (Veeam desirable) SAN administration experience (particularly NetApp / EqualLogic) Good understanding of network and firewall principles Load balancer awareness and/or experience Good Windows and/or Linux Server system administration skills Familiarity with good practice monitoring and patching activities Good written and oral communication skills Ability to work to Service SLAs and Support targets What does Access offer you? We are a growing technology company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your own personal success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday and a flexible benefits scheme which includes a matched contributory pension you will get: A Competitive Salary Giving Back/Charity days Quarterly Socials 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service) The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain or the option to take an extra two days holiday instead
The Access group
Nov 05, 2021
Full time
You are a Business Analyst or Product Owner looking for your next move, ideally with a hospitality background, who has a passion for product, a well-rounded knowledge of agile developments and an ability to communicate requirements and make decisions. Playing a key role in our dynamic Product Development team with support from our group-wide product function, you will play a vital role in executing the strategic product roadmap for the next generation of our Access Workspace platform, delivering exciting and engaging solutions for our customers. Job Role The Associate Product Manager fulfils the Product Owner role within an Agile Development (Scrum) Team, focusing on how best to execute the strategic roadmap defined by the Senior Product Manager as well as delivering customer change requests. You will act as the representative of the Product Manager in the Agile squad and, with sufficient understanding of the market, also the customer and business to make sound, informed decisions. Responsibilities: • Work with the Senior Product Managers and the Product Director to provide input to Product Strategies, Roadmaps and Business Cases which you will execute and manage. • Bring or gain an understanding and appreciation of the Market, customer problems and Competitive landscape along with research and metrics to inform decisions. • Fulfil the Agile Product Owner role: oClearly identify and describe product backlog items building a shared understanding of the problem and solution with the development team. oMake decisions regarding the priority of product backlog items in order to deliver maximum outcome with minimum output. oDetermine whether a product backlog item was satisfactorily delivered. oAssess and triage reported bugs and support cases and assist with their resolution. • Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of customers' business processes and requirements, becoming a product expert, able to do pre-sales demos of your products. • Contribute to the development, implementation and execution of Go To Market plans. • Supports sales and go to market initiatives for the existing products, owning the creation of sales and demo material, content for lead-generation, and presentations/content for user group meetings. • Work with colleagues to understand the overall portfolio and its interactions with your own products. • Contribute to engagement with clients through Special Interest Groups, Customer Forums and other events. Skills and Attributes • Able to communicate well with team members and stakeholders on deliverables and approach. Demonstrates ability to communicate and listen appropriately depending on the audience. Able to communicate and collaborate with other teams. • Can provide comprehensive requirements feedback, highlighting omissions, gaps and potential areas of confusion. • Commercially aware with a good understanding of market drivers and client needs. • Flexible and pragmatic, able to respond to shifting priorities, demands and timelines by using effective analytical and problem-solving skills. • Accredited to the agreed level for the role. • Ability to think creatively and exploit opportunities • Good communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible & consultative approach. • Proactive, works at pace, goal orientated with a strong delivery/milestone focus • Demonstrates sound judgement, able to make decisions independently whilst recognising when to escalate for more senior approval • Demonstrates good product knowledge able to clearly articulate value and works with marketing to define value proposition and competitive intelligence. • Regularly takes ownership for team retrospectives and goals. • Participates in customer meetings, able to talk clearly about product roadmaps and futures. • Along with wider product responsibilities can fulfil the role of Product Owner within an Agile Development (Scrum) Team.
The Access group Loughborough, Leicestershire
Nov 04, 2021
Full time
** Please note this role can be homebased anywhere in the UK ** What are we all about? At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It is this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more. We are passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That is why over 1 million users and over 35,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. About you: This is a process and data-oriented role, and you will be a self-motivated, target driven individual with an eye for detail, strong numerical and technical skills and a keen interest in process engineering, data analysis and reporting. You will enjoy being part of a team that drives Business Excellence and delivers transformational programmes of work, accelerating business performance. Day-to-day, you will: • Be responsible for defining and documenting new and existing functional processes • Work closely with a variety of internal teams to understand the key KPIs used to drive our business and create a visualisation of this data in a manner that can be easily interpreted by Senior Leadership. • Working with key project stakeholders to communicate and formulate the business vision for transformational projects, the scope of the project, and to map out initial requirements. • Strive to ensure that data collection processes are automated and documented where possible to maximise efficiency. • Work with large data sets, using Excel and other data visualisation tools to deliver on programme and divisional objectives • Work closely with Programme and Project Managers in the Business Excellence team to deliver analysis required to drive programme outcomes. • Work with other Data Analysts on the team to share knowledge, expertise, and best practice • Work with managers to ensure that the effort and timeline to deliver on a particular piece of analysis is understood • Be proactive and recommend process improvements or new tools with the overall goal of helping managers to gain greater business insight through the exposure of data or metrics. As a well-rounded Business Analyst, your Skills and Experiences likely include: • Previous experience working in a similar role within a Business Excellence team • High level of communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with a diverse range of internal stakeholders • Strong working knowledge of product lifecycles and sales processes • Highly analytical and data driven • Excellent Excel skills required • Excellent Powerpoint skills required • Experience with at least one data analytics tool such as PowerBI, Tableau, Databricks & Alteryx etc is essential. • Knowledge of Salesforce is an advantage • Ability to influence individuals/teams within Access to ensure that the goals of the team are delivered • Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and perform effectively under pressure • Ability to work on own initiative and drive tasks forward is essential • Strong team player who can contribute to the development of our strategy and flex as our team requirements change What does Access offer you? We are a growing software company, and we take the development of our people seriously. We will work with you to carve out your success plan and opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get: • A Competitive Salary • Giving Back/Charity days • Quarterly Socials • 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service) • The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain
The Access group Canterbury, Kent
Nov 04, 2021
Full time
What are we all about? At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. About you: You are focused on gaining your Level 3 Customer Service Specialist apprenticeship standard qualification. You are a tenacious and customer focussed individual who is interested in either making their first steps into professional services/consultancy/project management. You will strive to deliver excellent service to our customers whilst guiding them through their Onboarding journey as they implement their new software solutions. You are passionate about software and its potential to move organisations forward through innovation. You are an organised individual who is able to prioritise multiple projects at any one time and ensure project deadlines are met and documented in line with our FlightPath methodology. You are detail orientated with a thirst for process improvement. Day-to-day, you will: • Onboard and train customers in their new software solutions • Manage your implementation projects to successful conclusions • Manage the relationship with customers to a high standard ensuring expectations are always managed and the customer is clear on their project steps • Take responsibility of your product knowledge to maintain continual professional development • Produce high quality collateral including video tutorials and training documentation as required • Contribute to driving efficiencies in project delivery where opportunities arise • Ensure appropriate security policies are applied to tasks in line with Access requirements • Spend 20% of your time improving new skills that are aligned to the Level 3 Customer Service Specialist apprenticeship standard; generally, this might be one day a week or set time a month or built into the day to day learning of the role As a prospective Centre of Excellence Onboarding Apprentice, your Skills and Experiences may include: • The ability to develop a broad knowledge of our software • Possess a passion for delivering high quality customer service • An ability to grasp technical concepts and new product functionality quickly • Flexibility and pragmatism, an ability to self-plan and respond to shifting priorities • The ability to act as a role model for best practice and actively promote a positive working environment. You deliver value to the business, effectively, efficiently and to a high standard • Good communication skills. You are a confident, clear and warm communicator with a flexible and constructive approach to customers and the team alike • You work at pace, are goal orientated and have a strong delivery focus • You remain calm and professional when handling challenging queries • Have enthusiasm in busy periods and the ability to work in a team
The Access group Loughborough, Leicestershire
Sep 10, 2021
Full time
What are we all about? At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. Access Screening is a market leading cloud-based pre-employment and compliance product that has a rapidly expanding client base. Enabling customers to take control and manage their compliance process, Access Screening is the prerequisite of every employment hire. About you: You are a skilled and enthusiastic Python developer, who wants to work as part of a team on a variety of products and technologies using a range of frameworks, modern techniques, patterns, and practises. You take pride in your work and enjoy delivering quality software that will make a difference to our customers. Day-to-day, you will:Pro-actively participate in the full development lifecycle in a dynamic agile team.Write clean, self-documenting code that is well structured, well-named, simple, and easy to read.Work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team to deliver new features to our products.Actively contribute to requirements discussions and requirements analysis, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk, and complexity of changes.Support the team's sprint deliverables, through proactive contribution to planning, ownership of tasks, identification of dependencies and risk management.Be involved in the design, coding, testing, implementation, and documentation of solutions.Work using a range of frameworks, modern techniques, patterns, and practices in Python.Take pride in your work, be comfortable in a high-performance environment, and inspire others to succeed. Code review other developers; work, providing constructive feedback, advising on best practices. As a well-rounded developer, your Skills and Experiences likely include: Proven ability to deliver software in an Agile environment. Strong design, analytical and problem-solving skills. Committing to delivering and maintaining high standards, promoting quality focused development. Good understanding of QA best practices. Managing time efficiently and effectively. A quick learning capability, easily picking up new technical concepts. Open and collaborative style. Working with Python web frameworks, ideally Django, TypeScript, JavaScript, VueJs and MYSQL. Experience with CI/CD. What does Access offer you? We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get: A Competitive Salary Giving Back/Charity days Quarterly Socials 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service) The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain
The Access group Stockport, Cheshire
Apr 01, 2021
Full time
Support Agent Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality! Our core value of Love work, Love life' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day, to help us become a UK top 10 Software company. Are you ready for the challenge? What are we all about? At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. Day-to-day, you will: • Help our customers with questions and allow them to get the most out of our software by resolving their problems so they can focus on what is really important for their business • Provide high-level customer service via telephone and email • Take initiative and support continuous improvement of our customers experience by proactively identifying and researching potential challenges and creating solutions • Also proactively identify any risks to service and the consequences to Access. You will drive and escalate mitigation • The hours will be 09:00 to 17.30 when on core shift, early shift 07:30 to 16:00, late shift 12:30 to 21:00 and some weekend work. We are looking for a Support Agent who is passionate about software and its potential to move organisations forward through innovation. The successfully appointed candidate will be a role model for best practice and actively promote it. They will deliver value to the business, effectively, efficiently and to a high standard. Your Skills and Experiences likely include: • The ability to develop a broad knowledge of our software and its debugging tools • An ability to grasp technical concepts and new product functionality quickly • Customer focussed and providing excellent Customer Service • Flexibility and pragmatism, an ability to self-plan and respond to shifting priorities • Strong analytical and problem solving skills and are a creative thinker • A good communicator, confident, clear and warm with a flexible and constructive approach to customers and to the team alike. • MS SQL Server scripting experience and ability to identify and resolve issues within the data and data structure (desirable) What does Access offer you? We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get: •A Competitive Salary •Giving Back/Charity days •Quarterly Socials •The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain Become part of our amazing Access family!
The Access group Loughborough, Leicestershire
Mar 31, 2021
Full time
At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. Role-specific: • An exciting opportunity for a seasoned software Development Manager to join the Access Groups People Division to lead and manage highly successful HR Products, (mix of On-prem and SaaS) • Accountable for the strategic technical roadmap for the products, working with other teams to negotiate and influence product roadmaps to ensure continued success of the product. • Managing and partnering with a large offshore development team, working with UK /Romania based devops team, managing UK development teams. • Great people leader, able to ensure that the remote teams feel part of The Access Group, remaining loyal and engaged. This will include ensuring teams have the skills and behaviours to achieve their goals, coaching squad leaders and developing performance and talent. Day-to-day: • Manage resourcing and capacity against multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring considerations for code management, quality activities and customer commitments are included. • Create the project plan/forecast for project delivery against agreed scope and provides regular, transparent progress reports to the Divisional Head of Development, Programme Management and Divisional Management Team. • Lead & drive the software development team(s) to deliver their commitments on the project, highlighting any impediments/impairments in good time and forming resolution plans to bring projects back in line. • Collaborate with Product Owners, QA Leads and Divisional Head of Development to ensure alignment and delivery of collaborative projects (such as integration). • Lead, motivate, develop and manages the performance of the team to ensure that they have the skills and support to achieve their potential and meet the company's needs. • Use programming experience to provide technical guidance, clear thinking and commercially and pragmatic decision-making; leading & mentoring developers to make better decisions & credible delivery plans. About you: • You demonstrate motivational leadership and drives high performance teams, ensuring they are equipped to achieve success within their roles. Uses process, tooling and engagement techniques to get the best from teams. • You are an excellent communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible, pragmatic & consultative approach. Can deliver challenging messages in a positive and pragmatic approach. • You have a strong tactical delivery and planning focus, able to lead agile development teams and projects to the successful delivery of requirements. • You have a good understanding of various technologies, data structures, development best practice and Object-Oriented Design principles and their application to problem solving, with a background in .NET development. • You use metrics, analysis and engagement feedback to understand and improve operational efficiency. You pro-actively identify areas for improvement for the team(s) and prioritise according to risk and commercial factors. • You are able to guide development teams by asking right questions that helps them better understand the problem they need to solve. • You can make and own hard decisions when it's the right thing to do, showing courage and calmness in challenging circumstances. • You demonstrate pragmatism and a high level of flexibility. As a well-rounded Development Manager, you will: • Have experience of leading a technical team, with evidence of consistent successful delivery. • Have demonstrable experience working on several projects and technologies including building and designing a CI/CD solution, migrations of applications to services to cloud. • Demonstrate the ability to lead a team to deliver complex high quality software development projects, to bring commercial value • Have demonstrable experience managing offshore development teams and partners, including commercial experience associated to this. What does Access offer you? We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get: • A Competitive Salary • Giving Back/Charity days • Quarterly Socials • 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service) • The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain
The Access group Stockport, Cheshire
Mar 31, 2021
Full time
Support Agent Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality! Our core value of Love work, Love life' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day, to help us become a UK top 10 Software company. Are you ready for the challenge? What are we all about? At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. Day-to-day, you will: • Help our customers with questions and allow them to get the most out of our software by resolving their problems so they can focus on what is really important for their business • Provide high-level customer service via telephone and email • Take initiative and support continuous improvement of our customers experience by proactively identifying and researching potential challenges and creating solutions • Also proactively identify any risks to service and the consequences to Access. You will drive and escalate mitigation • The hours will be 09:00 to 17.30 when on core shift, early shift 07:30 to 16:00, late shift 12:30 to 21:00 and some weekend work. We are looking for a Support Agent who is passionate about software and its potential to move organisations forward through innovation. The successfully appointed candidate will be a role model for best practice and actively promote it. They will deliver value to the business, effectively, efficiently and to a high standard. Your Skills and Experiences likely include: • The ability to develop a broad knowledge of our software and its debugging tools • An ability to grasp technical concepts and new product functionality quickly • Customer focussed and providing excellent Customer Service • Flexibility and pragmatism, an ability to self-plan and respond to shifting priorities • Strong analytical and problem solving skills and are a creative thinker • A good communicator, confident, clear and warm with a flexible and constructive approach to customers and to the team alike. • MS SQL Server scripting experience and ability to identify and resolve issues within the data and data structure (desirable) What does Access offer you? We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get: •A Competitive Salary •Giving Back/Charity days •Quarterly Socials •The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain Become part of our amazing Access family!