About Us

Established in 1880, PFG is one of the UK's leading suppliers of personal credit products to the non-standard lending market. We are a FTSE 250 company that provide a portfolio of credit products designed to meet the particular needs of those who are not well serviced by mainstream lenders. The Provident Financial Group is made up of Provident Home Credit, Satsuma Loans, Vanquis Bank, Cheque Exchange and Moneybarn.

About the Role

In this role you will work directly with technical delivery teams to drive a culture of continuous improvement in how they deliver consistently and regularly with shippable products released on a regular basis. The Scrum Master acts as the facilitator for the agile development team and supports them in organising themselves in a way that enables them to make changes quickly, in accordance with agile principles.

Key Responsibilities

• It is the duty of the Scrum Master to use their agile delivery skills to mentor and coach the delivery teams and squad members to define and achieve sprint goals/objectives
• Their focus is on continuously improving the development lifecycle and ultimately, being a key support for the management teams to ensure they continue to evolve their agile delivery capability
• An agent of change across a number of technical delivery squads.
• Lead in the driving of collaboration within delivery squads to foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Responsible for the facilitation of all agile ceremonies - daily scrum / stand-up, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint review
• Coach in agile practices and ideas/concepts for continual improvement
• Accountable for forecasting of deliverables across delivery sprint cycles
• Lead in the estimation and planning of technical deliverables across sprint iterations
• Responsible for the correct use and application of the Scrum framework
• Support the building of capability within the squads by supporting and coaching through effective performance management practices
• Work closely with Product Owners to ensure product backlogs are in shape to deliver features into sprint backlogs

About You

We would like you to have skills and experience in some of the following:

• Previous experience within an agile delivery team or similar environments
• Ability to influence and challenge constructively, particularly at Head of Function level
• Knowledge of Scrum methodology and agile frameworks
• Coaching and mentoring of technical delivery teams
• Agile techniques - User Stories, Continuous Integration, BDD/TDD, Pairing, Automated Testing
• Servant leadership working with delivery squads to drive a continual improvement mentality
• Metrics in sprint delivery - burndown / burnup, incremental delivery, story points, cumulative flow

Desirable

• Understand the requirements of an FCA regulated business and/ or Financial Services exposure
• A Degree in an IT related subject or equivalent
• Development and/or testing experience

Qualifications

Essential

• CSM Certification

Desirable

• Prince2
• DSDM (or agile related project management technique)
• PMI-ACP

The Benefits

The satisfaction of working for a successful and ethical business who are here to help people is a big benefit of joining us, but it is not the only one. We will invest in your development, giving you the support and training to become better and better at your job. We take the work/life balance seriously, with plenty of flexible working options. Working in a bright and refreshingly relaxed environment, you will find your opinions are valued and listened to.

On top of all this, we will give you a package including:

• 25 days annual leave increasing with service.
• Car Allowance
• Up to 10% annual profit bonus.
• Pension (with employer contributions up to 10.6%)
• Private Health Insurance (when in PFG Pension Scheme)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Onsite Gym - Provident have partnered with Nuffield Health. Weekly classes are held throughout the day and pre 09:00 and post 17:00, you can attend anything from Spinning to Pilates to Boxercise.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

Provident is one of a select group of forward thinking organisations that have signed up for the National Equality Standard NES. The NES provides a cultural assessment through the lens of diversity. It looks across all 9 protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010 to ensure true inclusion in the workplace. The NES adopts a pragmatic & holistic approach to EDI and achieving it will enable Provident to showcase our business as leaders in this field.

About Us

Established in 1880, PFG is one of the UK's leading suppliers of personal credit products to the non-standard lending market. We are a FTSE 250 company that provide a portfolio of credit products designed to meet the particular needs of those who are not well serviced by mainstream lenders. The Provident Financial Group is made up of Provident Home Credit, Satsuma Loans, Vanquis Bank, Cheque Exchange and Moneybarn.

About the Role

In this role you will work directly with technical delivery teams to drive a culture of continuous improvement in how they deliver consistently and regularly with shippable products released on a regular basis. The Scrum Master acts as the facilitator for the agile development team and supports them in organising themselves in a way that enables them to make changes quickly, in accordance with agile principles.

Key Responsibilities

• It is the duty of the Scrum Master to use their agile delivery skills to mentor and coach the delivery teams and squad members to define and achieve sprint goals/objectives
• Their focus is on continuously improving the development lifecycle and ultimately, being a key support for the management teams to ensure they continue to evolve their agile delivery capability
• An agent of change across a number of technical delivery squads.
• Lead in the driving of collaboration within delivery squads to foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Responsible for the facilitation of all agile ceremonies - daily scrum / stand-up, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint review
• Coach in agile practices and ideas/concepts for continual improvement
• Accountable for forecasting of deliverables across delivery sprint cycles
• Lead in the estimation and planning of technical deliverables across sprint iterations
• Responsible for the correct use and application of the Scrum framework
• Support the building of capability within the squads by supporting and coaching through effective performance management practices
• Work closely with Product Owners to ensure product backlogs are in shape to deliver features into sprint backlogs

About You

We would like you to have skills and experience in some of the following:

• Previous experience within an agile delivery team or similar environments
• Ability to influence and challenge constructively, particularly at Head of Function level
• Knowledge of Scrum methodology and agile frameworks
• Coaching and mentoring of technical delivery teams
• Agile techniques - User Stories, Continuous Integration, BDD/TDD, Pairing, Automated Testing
• Servant leadership working with delivery squads to drive a continual improvement mentality
• Metrics in sprint delivery - burndown / burnup, incremental delivery, story points, cumulative flow

Desirable

• Understand the requirements of an FCA regulated business and/ or Financial Services exposure
• A Degree in an IT related subject or equivalent
• Development and/or testing experience

Qualifications

Essential

• CSM Certification

Desirable

• Prince2
• DSDM (or agile related project management technique)
• PMI-ACP

The Benefits

The satisfaction of working for a successful and ethical business who are here to help people is a big benefit of joining us, but it is not the only one. We will invest in your development, giving you the support and training to become better and better at your job. We take the work/life balance seriously, with plenty of flexible working options. Working in a bright and refreshingly relaxed environment, you will find your opinions are valued and listened to.

On top of all this, we will give you a package including:

• 25 days annual leave increasing with service.
• Car Allowance
• Up to 10% annual profit bonus.
• Pension (with employer contributions up to 10.6%)
• Private Health Insurance (when in PFG Pension Scheme)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Onsite Gym - Provident have partnered with Nuffield Health. Weekly classes are held throughout the day and pre 09:00 and post 17:00, you can attend anything from Spinning to Pilates to Boxercise.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

Provident is one of a select group of forward thinking organisations that have signed up for the National Equality Standard NES. The NES provides a cultural assessment through the lens of diversity. It looks across all 9 protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010 to ensure true inclusion in the workplace. The NES adopts a pragmatic & holistic approach to EDI and achieving it will enable Provident to showcase our business as leaders in this field.

A new Product Manager positionis available for our Berkshire based client; a growing and globally successful software company. The role Product Manager is an exciting and agile role and will focus on championing the needs of the customer/user and working with the development team to strive to make the product better. The ideal Product Manager / Owner will be someone who has SaaS (cloud based) software product experience and someone who has worked within software teams to build out requirements and take part in research with customers/users.

Our client will provide the new Product Manager with an ideal environment that includes all the tools, support and attitude to be successful. The company culture is excellent and makes for a really enjoyable place to work. Flexibility is provided to help team members maintain a good work-life balance and the office is brand new and full of cool technology, gadgets and break away areas.

As a Person, you will be:

• Someone who loves to discuss technology,
• A strategic thinker,
• Someone who can provide a high level of attention to detail,
• A quick learner with an analytical mind.

You might have just started as a Product Manager and are looking for a chance to develop your skills further, in an innovative tech company. Or maybe you previously worked in a different technology role within a product company, especially if you have experience of IT operations and DevOps, and want to move into product management.

Your will ideally have experience with the following:

• Maintaining and prioritizing your product area backlog in line with the wider Product and Portfolio Roadmap
• Acting as the domain expert for your product area by developing an in-depth knowledge of your product, and the customer/user problems being solved
• Identifying and articulating requirements in the form of user stories and functional specifications
• Supporting development of product strategy and the product (and/or portfolio) Roadmap
• Previous DevOps Engineer / site reliability experience (desired).
• Understanding of the product lifecycle and Agile methodologies
• Experience of cloud technology platforms; AWS, Azure, etc.

This role is based in Berkshire and is commutable from Reading, Bracknell, Slough, Maidenhead, Wokingham, Fleet, Newbury, Oxford, Abingdon, Didcot, Thame, West London and many more locations besides. - There is also free parking!

So, if you’re looking to join a growing successful technology company, and are seeking a new challenge then please apply today for immediate consideration!

Product Manager - Software Product, DevOps, Agile, Cloud, AWS,

Referral Scheme: If this role isn’t for you then perhaps you could recommend a friend or colleague to Haybrook IT. If we go on to place that person in a permanent or temporary capacity then you could be rewarded with £500!! Please see our website for terms and conditions.

Haybrook IT Resourcing is Oxford’s leading IT recruitment agency. With exclusive access to some of the region’s most successful companies, send in your CV today to secure your next IT position.

Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd acts as an employment agency and an employment business.

We value diversity and always appoint on merit.

A new Product Manager positionis available for our Berkshire based client; a growing and globally successful software company. The role Product Manager is an exciting and agile role and will focus on championing the needs of the customer/user and working with the development team to strive to make the product better. The ideal Product Manager / Owner will be someone who has SaaS (cloud based) software product experience and someone who has worked within software teams to build out requirements and take part in research with customers/users.

Our client will provide the new Product Manager with an ideal environment that includes all the tools, support and attitude to be successful. The company culture is excellent and makes for a really enjoyable place to work. Flexibility is provided to help team members maintain a good work-life balance and the office is brand new and full of cool technology, gadgets and break away areas.

As a Person, you will be:

• Someone who loves to discuss technology,
• A strategic thinker,
• Someone who can provide a high level of attention to detail,
• A quick learner with an analytical mind.

You might have just started as a Product Manager and are looking for a chance to develop your skills further, in an innovative tech company. Or maybe you previously worked in a different technology role within a product company, especially if you have experience of IT operations and DevOps, and want to move into product management.

Your will ideally have experience with the following:

• Maintaining and prioritizing your product area backlog in line with the wider Product and Portfolio Roadmap
• Acting as the domain expert for your product area by developing an in-depth knowledge of your product, and the customer/user problems being solved
• Identifying and articulating requirements in the form of user stories and functional specifications
• Supporting development of product strategy and the product (and/or portfolio) Roadmap
• Previous DevOps Engineer / site reliability experience (desired).
• Understanding of the product lifecycle and Agile methodologies
• Experience of cloud technology platforms; AWS, Azure, etc.

This role is based in Berkshire and is commutable from Reading, Bracknell, Slough, Maidenhead, Wokingham, Fleet, Newbury, Oxford, Abingdon, Didcot, Thame, West London and many more locations besides. - There is also free parking!

So, if you’re looking to join a growing successful technology company, and are seeking a new challenge then please apply today for immediate consideration!

Product Manager - Software Product, DevOps, Agile, Cloud, AWS,

Referral Scheme: If this role isn’t for you then perhaps you could recommend a friend or colleague to Haybrook IT. If we go on to place that person in a permanent or temporary capacity then you could be rewarded with £500!! Please see our website for terms and conditions.

Haybrook IT Resourcing is Oxford’s leading IT recruitment agency. With exclusive access to some of the region’s most successful companies, send in your CV today to secure your next IT position.

Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd acts as an employment agency and an employment business.

We value diversity and always appoint on merit.

BUSINESS ANALYST - CHELTENHAM - 50K - FTE - PERMANENT - CWBACHELTS

Sanderson's, the leading South West recruiter are proud and delighted to be working with a large FTSE 100 company in Gloucestershire.

The ideal candidate will ideally be a hands on and 'ready to hit the ground running' passionate Business Analyst able to use a wide variety of technologies. The post will suit someone who has been a Business Analyst recently and has worked on customer focused projects. Being a self-starter and visionary would really be attractive to our client.

Responsibilities:

• Leading customer needs analysis to shape an initial idea into a viable product through effective collaboration with the Product Owners and customers
• Providing agile business analysis across a range of digital projects
• Be aligned with the Product Owners, understand the vision and strategy for the product and communicate the needs, vision and priorities to the engineering team
• Define product backlogs, epics, MVP features, sprint backlogs, user stories, functional/non-functional requirements, workflows and acceptance criteria
• Build and maintain relationships with both product and engineering teams to facilitate communications and encourage collaboration
• Work with the product and engineering teams to assess requirements and ensure optimal software delivery pipeline is in operation
• Pro-actively prioritise user stories to ensure required functionality is delivered on time
• Manage changes to the scope and ensure correct level of business challenge to business requirements

Experience required

• Demonstrable experience in a Business Analyst role with end to end project delivery, in an Agile environment
• Previous experience in delivering customer facing business systems solutions, ecommerce portals, IoT solutions and Mobile Apps using a range of modern technologies
• Experience in agile techniques such as product backlog, backlog refinement, sprint planning, scrum master, sprint estimation, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Previous experience supporting the creation of test scripts, scenario and cases including facilitating testing
• Experience in creating a proof of concept, wireframes or prototyping exercise to demonstrate or evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a technology, product or toolset to meet a customer need

The position comes with many benefits including 27 days holiday, pension plan, healthcare and free parking to name a few.

Interested? Please submit your recent CV through to Charlie Wilkinson on or call

BUSINESS ANALYST - CHELTENHAM - 50K - FTE - PERMANENT - CWBACHELTS

Sanderson's, the leading South West recruiter are proud and delighted to be working with a large FTSE 100 company in Gloucestershire.

The ideal candidate will ideally be a hands on and 'ready to hit the ground running' passionate Business Analyst able to use a wide variety of technologies. The post will suit someone who has been a Business Analyst recently and has worked on customer focused projects. Being a self-starter and visionary would really be attractive to our client.

Responsibilities:

• Leading customer needs analysis to shape an initial idea into a viable product through effective collaboration with the Product Owners and customers
• Providing agile business analysis across a range of digital projects
• Be aligned with the Product Owners, understand the vision and strategy for the product and communicate the needs, vision and priorities to the engineering team
• Define product backlogs, epics, MVP features, sprint backlogs, user stories, functional/non-functional requirements, workflows and acceptance criteria
• Build and maintain relationships with both product and engineering teams to facilitate communications and encourage collaboration
• Work with the product and engineering teams to assess requirements and ensure optimal software delivery pipeline is in operation
• Pro-actively prioritise user stories to ensure required functionality is delivered on time
• Manage changes to the scope and ensure correct level of business challenge to business requirements

Experience required

• Demonstrable experience in a Business Analyst role with end to end project delivery, in an Agile environment
• Previous experience in delivering customer facing business systems solutions, ecommerce portals, IoT solutions and Mobile Apps using a range of modern technologies
• Experience in agile techniques such as product backlog, backlog refinement, sprint planning, scrum master, sprint estimation, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Previous experience supporting the creation of test scripts, scenario and cases including facilitating testing
• Experience in creating a proof of concept, wireframes or prototyping exercise to demonstrate or evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a technology, product or toolset to meet a customer need

The position comes with many benefits including 27 days holiday, pension plan, healthcare and free parking to name a few.

Interested? Please submit your recent CV through to Charlie Wilkinson on or call