Business Unit / Team: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £39,200 - £54,800 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: Remote UK with occasional travel to office or Hub
Contract Type: Permanent

Get out of your comfort zone. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team
We’re at our best when we have something to drive us forward, a belief that underlines who we are and what we do. Our Purpose. We want to make people happier about money – and that idea starts with every single one of us here at Virgin Money. Feeling Insatiably Curious about your next adventure? You might have just found it.

We need the Decisioning Systems Assurance team to keep our Purpose, Strategic Aims and Values & Behaviours at the heart of everything they do, to make sure that we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.

This is an exciting time to join the team as it plays a key role in numerous system implementations, upgrades, enhancements and continues to validate and build out our validation of the existing lending systems. We are looking for someone who can help us continue this journey and enhance our capabilities.

What you’ll be doing
• Leading the development of new assurance processes for both heritages, across all products
• Updating, streamlining, and automating existing assurance processes
• Ensuring timely execution and delivery of existing assurance results
• Providing SME knowledge for data, SAS, assurance and Testing for numerous system enhancements and implementations
• Support Systems management team and provide mentoring and coaching for junior team members
• Design and maintain controls for ensuring the processes are robust and fit for purpose
• Liaise with System owners, Risk policy owners and third parties to ensure the timely implementation of code and resolution of issues

We need you to have
• Experience in banking, lending systems and data management
• Extensive experience with data mining tools e.g. SAS, SQL etc.
• Expert understanding of data manipulation and ETL processes
• A high-level qualification in a numerical or coding-based discipline, or equivalent technical experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in building trusted relationships with key stakeholder, both internally and externally including conflict and challenge management.
• Logical approach to problem-solving in relation to both technical and business issues.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
• Strong knowledge of data management and development processes, including industry-wide approaches
• Experience in provision of consultation and subject matter expertise to projects.
• Experience of reporting tools such as Power BI
• Experience of the wider SAS toolset such as DI Studio, Viya

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money’, underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.