Your new company
A Fintech business based in central West London is hiring a qualified Accountant to join the Group finance team. You will be working for a business which has is fast growing and is changing the way the industry works. The business has grown via acquisition and offers a vibrant and fast paced working environment.

Your new role
As a Group Financial Accountant you will contribute towards the preparation of the Group's consolidated accounts and will have significant involvement in financial analysis of he Group's results and review of the Group's subsidiaries. The role will report up to the Group Reporting Director and will work alongside three other Accountants.

What you'll need to succeed

• ACA / ACCA qualified
• Practice trained
• 0-3 years pqe
• Good analytical skills
• Confident communicator

What you'll get in return
This is a great step for someone looking to make a move from practice into industry. The role reports into the Group Finance Director and will require you to liaise with key stakeholders on a day to day basis. Working in the Group team will develop your reporting experience and offer you the chance to apply your practice experience and the theory learn in ACA / ACCA.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Nicolette now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Your new company
A Fintech business based in central West London is hiring a qualified Accountant to join the Group finance team. You will be working for a business which has is fast growing and is changing the way the industry works. The business has grown via acquisition and offers a vibrant and fast paced working environment.

Your new role
As a Group Financial Accountant you will contribute towards the preparation of the Group's consolidated accounts and will have significant involvement in financial analysis of he Group's results and review of the Group's subsidiaries. The role will report up to the Group Reporting Director and will work alongside three other Accountants.

What you'll need to succeed

• ACA / ACCA qualified
• Practice trained
• 0-3 years pqe
• Good analytical skills
• Confident communicator

What you'll get in return
This is a great step for someone looking to make a move from practice into industry. The role reports into the Group Finance Director and will require you to liaise with key stakeholders on a day to day basis. Working in the Group team will develop your reporting experience and offer you the chance to apply your practice experience and the theory learn in ACA / ACCA.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Nicolette now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

I am currently recruiting for an Application Support Analyst for a successful organisation based in Wednesbury. The Application Support Analyst will provide support to the business with ERP, CRM, Warehousing, EDI and finance systems.

The Application Support Analyst will implement product updates, complete end to end Process Documentation and train new users on internal applications. You will support the business in finding ways for the business systems to improve and assist in testing of new software developments, liaising with product suppliers and customers.

Someone with a "can do" attitude and has an interest in Software Development or Application Support.

what you will need;

• Ability to handle third party vendors
• Identify repeat issues (root cause analysis)
• Documentation for reference and support.
• Passionate about software and system development and support.
• Understanding of SQL, and SQL script writing(essential)
• Linux/ Unix

If you have the required skill set and you are ready for an exciting new challenge, please apply online today.

I am currently recruiting for an Application Support Analyst for a successful organisation based in Wednesbury. The Application Support Analyst will provide support to the business with ERP, CRM, Warehousing, EDI and finance systems.

The Application Support Analyst will implement product updates, complete end to end Process Documentation and train new users on internal applications. You will support the business in finding ways for the business systems to improve and assist in testing of new software developments, liaising with product suppliers and customers.

Someone with a "can do" attitude and has an interest in Software Development or Application Support.

what you will need;

• Ability to handle third party vendors
• Identify repeat issues (root cause analysis)
• Documentation for reference and support.
• Passionate about software and system development and support.
• Understanding of SQL, and SQL script writing(essential)
• Linux/ Unix

If you have the required skill set and you are ready for an exciting new challenge, please apply online today.

Your new company
This company is a Japanese-HQ'd robotics company at the forefront of current and future AI and robotics technology. Their mandate is to use their robotic solutions to improve society and the way that we work.

Your new role
This company is looking to a hire a talented financial modeller to join their London team. You will report into the EMEA FD and you will be entrusted to provide timely and accurate forecasts and financial reports, as well as using your commercial acumen to assist both finance and non-finance.

What you'll need to succeed
This company cares about talent not background, so qualified accountants from all types of industries, tech or non-tech, can succeed. What is essential, however, is that you will be to have strong forecast and reporting skills.

What you'll get in return
You will work in an international leader in robotic engineering that has the resources and the ambition to fuel and grow your career. In addition to this you will receive a competitive salary and benefits package

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Your new company
This company is a Japanese-HQ'd robotics company at the forefront of current and future AI and robotics technology. Their mandate is to use their robotic solutions to improve society and the way that we work.

Your new role
This company is looking to a hire a talented financial modeller to join their London team. You will report into the EMEA FD and you will be entrusted to provide timely and accurate forecasts and financial reports, as well as using your commercial acumen to assist both finance and non-finance.

What you'll need to succeed
This company cares about talent not background, so qualified accountants from all types of industries, tech or non-tech, can succeed. What is essential, however, is that you will be to have strong forecast and reporting skills.

What you'll get in return
You will work in an international leader in robotic engineering that has the resources and the ambition to fuel and grow your career. In addition to this you will receive a competitive salary and benefits package

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

The Business
Sea/ is the world’s first end-to-end digital shipping platform. It’s made up of a suite of tools for trade that connect to create efficiencies and digitise workflows. We’re bringing true digital transformation to the global shipping industry by designing, developing and bringing to market, technology that enhances the way shipping professionals work. This is Smarter Shipping. This is Sea/.
We have an incredible team in London at St Katharine Dock’s and are growing fast with a new office in Birmingham City Centre, where we are building a new tech and development hub to further expand and grow the Sea/ platform. This is a truly exciting time to join us and work on industry changing technology solutions and be part of a team where innovation never stops. Are You Ready?

The Culture
We are building a world class team of motivated and passionate multi discipline technologists who all share the vision to continuously improve and share an eagerness to learn, support one another, operate as a high functioning and performing team, and drive the product development through effective technology and innovation. We operate in a very supportive and team-based environment, where we use a lean and agile environment and apply DevOps philosophies and practises to deliver a continuous delivery approach with a fail fast, learn fast mentality.

The Role
We are looking for a Senior BA to join our new team we are building in central Birmingham and work on cutting edge web/cloud development projects. If you are a great communicator, well organised and passionate about technology, as well as eager to develop your existing skills and experience within a fast-paced environment, then this role could be for you.

You will be providing leadership for a small team and undertake analysis work relating to business/systems requirement analysis on both new and existing systems, for various departments from broking to operations and finance. This may include some testing and training on the solutions developed in-house or externally. The role will also include an element of project management and self-organisation.

This is a great opportunity for someone with business analysis experience in an agile applications development environment. You will be managing several more junior BAs, alongside a development team, QA and product owner. Ideally, you will be educated to degree level in a technical or science related discipline or have suitable knowledge/experience and initiative to analyse and write effective and efficient requirement specifications. You will have experience interfacing with senior stakeholders up to C- level and represent the team in requirements and prioritisation sessions with the business teams. On occasions you will act as the product owner to set the strategy and delivery scope of releases based on business priority and ensure we are working on the priorities that the business require.

Key Responsibilities
Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver any artefacts as needed, including the following:

• Lead the Business Analysis function and act as Product Owner when required;
• Functional specification documents, User stories, change requests, screen and interface designs;
• Engage in multiple projects simultaneously;
• Work with stakeholders up to C-level on prioritisation and product strategy and ensure these are effectively communicated to;
• Serve as the conduit between the customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow;
• Collaborate with the development team, product owner and subject matter experts to ensure business and systems requirements are understood and effectively transitioned into robust technical designs;
• Propose solutions to problems and considers timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing client needs;
• Proactively carry out project support /administrative functions;
• Effectively manage and prioritise own workload, providing regular status updates as required;
• Where required, plan and participate in system testing activity and facilitate UAT and system training;
• Write or provide guidance to others for the completion of support documentation, including user help documentation, guides and manuals and updates to the internal applications wiki;
• Manage and organise development sprints, which includes scheduling of resources;
• Create project plans for delivery of software development projects.

Skills & Experience
Core Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst/Senior BA covering the full project lifecycle
• Effective leadership skills to motivate and drive the Business Analysis team
• Strong communication & interpersonal skills
• Ideal experience acting as a product owner to drive a product roadmap and product strategy forward interface effectively with the stakeholders
• Ability to effectively represent the team with senior stakeholders and hold your own related to prioritise and workload
• Good attention to detail in both analysis and written work
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels across both the business and IT
• Ability to work within tight deadlines
• Experience of project management disciplines including waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Ability to plan and schedule development backlog into sprints in an Agile environment
• Demonstrable experience in producing project plans
• Ability to lead a development team in delivery of a project
• Analytical and process-based skills, i.e. process flow diagrams, business & process modelling, data analysis
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)
• Experience of using JIRA and Confluence, or Azure Dev Ops a distinct advantage

Desirable:

• Experience of training users on software applications
• Some familiarity of the financial services industry
• Some experience of testing or analysing mathematical/analytical scenarios
• Degree educated in a technical or science related subject

What you can expect from us
We will provide you with a fantastic, fun working environment, which offers support and coaching and is exceptionally team focused.
We offer an excellent package, comprising of a competitive salary, annual bonus opportunity and amazing benefits including:

25 days holiday per annum (in addition to UK bank holidays)

An additional day off on your birthday

Option to buy and sell an extra 5 days holiday

Exceptional pension scheme, with Company contribution at 10%

Investment in you and your career with an individual training budget offered towards your training

Opportunity to use and work on cutting edge technology including Azure Cloud, Devops, Microservices

Opportunity for a sabbatical after 5 years’ service

Stay healthy with a cycle to work scheme

Life assurance & private medical scheme

Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Annual Flu Jab

Free teas & coffees!

For more detailed information, or to view other vacancies with this organisation, please visit our dedicated recruitment website https://webmicrosites.hays.co.uk/web/sea

The Business
Sea/ is the world’s first end-to-end digital shipping platform. It’s made up of a suite of tools for trade that connect to create efficiencies and digitise workflows. We’re bringing true digital transformation to the global shipping industry by designing, developing and bringing to market, technology that enhances the way shipping professionals work. This is Smarter Shipping. This is Sea/.
We have an incredible team in London at St Katharine Dock’s and are growing fast with a new office in Birmingham City Centre, where we are building a new tech and development hub to further expand and grow the Sea/ platform. This is a truly exciting time to join us and work on industry changing technology solutions and be part of a team where innovation never stops. Are You Ready?

The Culture
We are building a world class team of motivated and passionate multi discipline technologists who all share the vision to continuously improve and share an eagerness to learn, support one another, operate as a high functioning and performing team, and drive the product development through effective technology and innovation. We operate in a very supportive and team-based environment, where we use a lean and agile environment and apply DevOps philosophies and practises to deliver a continuous delivery approach with a fail fast, learn fast mentality.

The Role
We are looking for a Senior BA to join our new team we are building in central Birmingham and work on cutting edge web/cloud development projects. If you are a great communicator, well organised and passionate about technology, as well as eager to develop your existing skills and experience within a fast-paced environment, then this role could be for you.

You will be providing leadership for a small team and undertake analysis work relating to business/systems requirement analysis on both new and existing systems, for various departments from broking to operations and finance. This may include some testing and training on the solutions developed in-house or externally. The role will also include an element of project management and self-organisation.

This is a great opportunity for someone with business analysis experience in an agile applications development environment. You will be managing several more junior BAs, alongside a development team, QA and product owner. Ideally, you will be educated to degree level in a technical or science related discipline or have suitable knowledge/experience and initiative to analyse and write effective and efficient requirement specifications. You will have experience interfacing with senior stakeholders up to C- level and represent the team in requirements and prioritisation sessions with the business teams. On occasions you will act as the product owner to set the strategy and delivery scope of releases based on business priority and ensure we are working on the priorities that the business require.

Key Responsibilities
Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver any artefacts as needed, including the following:

• Lead the Business Analysis function and act as Product Owner when required;
• Functional specification documents, User stories, change requests, screen and interface designs;
• Engage in multiple projects simultaneously;
• Work with stakeholders up to C-level on prioritisation and product strategy and ensure these are effectively communicated to;
• Serve as the conduit between the customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow;
• Collaborate with the development team, product owner and subject matter experts to ensure business and systems requirements are understood and effectively transitioned into robust technical designs;
• Propose solutions to problems and considers timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing client needs;
• Proactively carry out project support /administrative functions;
• Effectively manage and prioritise own workload, providing regular status updates as required;
• Where required, plan and participate in system testing activity and facilitate UAT and system training;
• Write or provide guidance to others for the completion of support documentation, including user help documentation, guides and manuals and updates to the internal applications wiki;
• Manage and organise development sprints, which includes scheduling of resources;
• Create project plans for delivery of software development projects.

Skills & Experience
Core Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst/Senior BA covering the full project lifecycle
• Effective leadership skills to motivate and drive the Business Analysis team
• Strong communication & interpersonal skills
• Ideal experience acting as a product owner to drive a product roadmap and product strategy forward interface effectively with the stakeholders
• Ability to effectively represent the team with senior stakeholders and hold your own related to prioritise and workload
• Good attention to detail in both analysis and written work
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels across both the business and IT
• Ability to work within tight deadlines
• Experience of project management disciplines including waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Ability to plan and schedule development backlog into sprints in an Agile environment
• Demonstrable experience in producing project plans
• Ability to lead a development team in delivery of a project
• Analytical and process-based skills, i.e. process flow diagrams, business & process modelling, data analysis
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)
• Experience of using JIRA and Confluence, or Azure Dev Ops a distinct advantage

Desirable:

• Experience of training users on software applications
• Some familiarity of the financial services industry
• Some experience of testing or analysing mathematical/analytical scenarios
• Degree educated in a technical or science related subject

What you can expect from us
We will provide you with a fantastic, fun working environment, which offers support and coaching and is exceptionally team focused.
We offer an excellent package, comprising of a competitive salary, annual bonus opportunity and amazing benefits including:

25 days holiday per annum (in addition to UK bank holidays)

An additional day off on your birthday

Option to buy and sell an extra 5 days holiday

Exceptional pension scheme, with Company contribution at 10%

Investment in you and your career with an individual training budget offered towards your training

Opportunity to use and work on cutting edge technology including Azure Cloud, Devops, Microservices

Opportunity for a sabbatical after 5 years’ service

Stay healthy with a cycle to work scheme

Life assurance & private medical scheme

Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Annual Flu Jab

Free teas & coffees!

For more detailed information, or to view other vacancies with this organisation, please visit our dedicated recruitment website https://webmicrosites.hays.co.uk/web/sea

Your new company

One of the largest Public Transport Organisations in the UK

Your new role

Cyber Security Tier 3 Analyst

What you'll need to succeed

As cyber threats continue to diversify and grow, so too does the client’s need to develop our cyber security culture and capabilities to ensure we continue to protect the services and systems which keep London moving.

Cyber security professionals play a critical and ever-increasing role in protecting these services and systems, safeguarding our customers as they travel across the capital’s network, and ultimately helping to realise the Government’s ambition to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online and do business.

The ideal candidate would have experience working with Information Technology and be able to demonstrate their ability to rise to new challenges and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. Prior experience in cyber security is essential.

This role is for a Tier 3 SOC Analyst therefore candidates must have strong experience undertaking this type of role, be able to undertake those responsibilities described below and demonstrate the desired skills and qualifications. Candidates who are unable to meet the responsibilities of the role will not be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Dealing with escalation from Tier 2
• Incident Management / Escalation
• Advisory to business regarding Cyber Security
• Purple team use cases defined by Tiers 1 & 2
• Implement advanced detection capabilities through threat hunting
• Required to be on-call according to a roster

Skills:

• A demonstrable passion for Cyber Security
• A detailed and proven understanding of network infrastructure, system and application architecture and associated security controls within highly complex environments
• Experience in public cloud application hosting, mobile and web application security
• Proven understanding of current best practise approach to security assurance and the application of security frameworks (E.g. NCSC 10 Steps to Security, CIS 20 Critical Controls, NIST, ISO27001)
• Capable of making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how decisions have been reached and the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk
• Highly effective written and verbal communications skills

Qualifications:

Qualification and certifications, such as:

• ISA Certification
• GIAC Certification
• CompTIA Certification
• ISACA Certification
• (ISC)2 Certification
• Any other cyber security-related certifications

What you'll get in return

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Cyber Security Candidate to assist the client across a large-scale Cyber Project.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Your new company

One of the largest Public Transport Organisations in the UK

Your new role

Cyber Security Tier 3 Analyst

What you'll need to succeed

As cyber threats continue to diversify and grow, so too does the client’s need to develop our cyber security culture and capabilities to ensure we continue to protect the services and systems which keep London moving.

Cyber security professionals play a critical and ever-increasing role in protecting these services and systems, safeguarding our customers as they travel across the capital’s network, and ultimately helping to realise the Government’s ambition to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online and do business.

The ideal candidate would have experience working with Information Technology and be able to demonstrate their ability to rise to new challenges and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. Prior experience in cyber security is essential.

This role is for a Tier 3 SOC Analyst therefore candidates must have strong experience undertaking this type of role, be able to undertake those responsibilities described below and demonstrate the desired skills and qualifications. Candidates who are unable to meet the responsibilities of the role will not be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Dealing with escalation from Tier 2
• Incident Management / Escalation
• Advisory to business regarding Cyber Security
• Purple team use cases defined by Tiers 1 & 2
• Implement advanced detection capabilities through threat hunting
• Required to be on-call according to a roster

Skills:

• A demonstrable passion for Cyber Security
• A detailed and proven understanding of network infrastructure, system and application architecture and associated security controls within highly complex environments
• Experience in public cloud application hosting, mobile and web application security
• Proven understanding of current best practise approach to security assurance and the application of security frameworks (E.g. NCSC 10 Steps to Security, CIS 20 Critical Controls, NIST, ISO27001)
• Capable of making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how decisions have been reached and the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk
• Highly effective written and verbal communications skills

Qualifications:

Qualification and certifications, such as:

• ISA Certification
• GIAC Certification
• CompTIA Certification
• ISACA Certification
• (ISC)2 Certification
• Any other cyber security-related certifications

What you'll get in return

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Cyber Security Candidate to assist the client across a large-scale Cyber Project.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.