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At Vida, we care and want to nurture a culture where colleagues feel supported and valued.
Our colleagues feel they belong in a diverse and collaborative environment where they are empowered to take responsibility for driving delivery; where transparency is valued, and challenge is welcomed; and where everyone is supported to grow and develop.
Through our core Vida Values, we encourage a progressive working environment where we learn by challenging old ways of doing things; we welcome everyone, valuing all backgrounds and experiences; we embrace change and take ownership to solve problems when things are not straightforward; and we build trust by being ourselves and always keeping our promises.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to join us.
Regulatory Reporting Accountant
About us
More than ever before, borrowers need a lender that will react and respond when they are faced with financial complexity. Vida is the mortgage lending specialist with a clear focus on helping more customers in their home ownership journey, unravelling complex situations, and making the process clear and simple.
Working exclusively with expert intermediary partners, Vida combines cutting-edge technology with skilled and caring people to deliver an efficient and differentiated customer experience. With over 11,000 customers we have lent over £2.1bn since our launch in 2015, but we want to do more. By continuing to invest in technology, people, and process to ensure we deliver a market leading proposition that helps more people with a wider range of home buying needs.
We are flexible and efficient; we cut through complexity and never accept second best.
At Vida, we always keep our promises, what you see is what you get, and it will never change. Put simply, Vida helps those who are typically ignored by high street banks to get life moving.
With three offices in Egham, London, and Skipton, we bring teams together regularly to collaborate but empower our colleagues to have more choice around when and where they work on the days they are not in the office, with colleagues working remotely in various locations across the UK.
Our Values
Our values lie at the heart of everything we do and provide a frame of reference for the behaviour we expect to see in our people every day. Refreshed in 2020, we look for these qualities when hiring new talent into the organisation, and they underpin our approach to personal development and performance management for all our people. We are:
Visionary - We innovate and break old habits, thinking big and pushing boundaries together as one team.
Inclusive - We value each other’s differences and work to see people for who they really are.
Dynamic - We are flexible and fast, cutting through complexity and never accepting second best.
Authentic - We are honest and genuine, what you see is what you get.
Role main purpose
The successful candidate will be able to hit the ground running and support with the testing and implementation of the regulatory reporting IT system whilst getting key controls in place ahead of the transition to a bank.
Once authorised, the role holder will play a key role in ensuring the Bank complies with its current and future reporting obligations as a part of a small Regulatory Reporting team. This role offers the right candidate the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills across the whole prudential framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Play a key role in the preparation of regulatory reporting including COREP, FINREP, Bank of England and PRA returns.
- Provide insight on key movements and trends by producing concise commentary to support return reviews.
- Assist with the identification and management of changes to reporting processes driven by the regulator and the business.
- Create and maintain procedures.
- Test and assess the effectiveness of key controls to ensure the regulatory reporting control framework remains robust and fit for purpose.
- Work closely with the bank's finance, risk, and compliance teams to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Identify and address potential regulatory issues and provide recommendations for resolution.
Requirements
- Experience of regulatory reporting ideally within a retail banking environment.
- Experience in creating and maintaining procedures for regulatory reporting.
- Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify and address potential regulatory issues.
- Desirable: Fully ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
Our Culture
As an equal opportunities employer, Belmont Green and Vida are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us. We believe diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
Benefits
Belmont Green and Vida offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees’ professional and personal needs.
Technical Support Specialist
About us
More than ever before, borrowers need a lender that will react and respond when they are faced with financial complexity. Vida is the mortgage lending specialist with a clear focus on helping more customers in their home ownership journey, unravelling complex situations, and making the process clear and simple.
Working exclusively with expert intermediary partners, Vida combines cutting-edge technology with skilled and caring people to deliver an efficient and differentiated customer experience. With over 11,000 customers we have lent over £2.1bn since our launch in 2015, but we want to do more. By continuing to invest in technology, people, and process to ensure we deliver a market leading proposition that helps more people with a wider range of home buying needs.
We are flexible and efficient; we cut through complexity and never accept second best.
At Vida, we always keep our promises, what you see is what you get, and it will never change. Put simply, Vida helps those who are typically ignored by high street banks to get life moving.
With three offices in Egham, London, and Skipton, we bring teams together regularly to collaborate but empower our colleagues to have more choice around when and where they work on the days they are not in the office, with colleagues working remotely in various locations across the UK.
Our Values
Our values lie at the heart of everything we do and provide a frame of reference for the behaviour we expect to see in our people every day. Refreshed in 2020, we look for these qualities when hiring new talent into the organisation, and they underpin our approach to personal development and performance management for all our people. We are:
Visionary - We innovate and break old habits, thinking big and pushing boundaries together as one team.
Inclusive - We value each other’s differences and work to see people for who they really are.
Dynamic - We are flexible and fast, cutting through complexity and never accepting second best.
Authentic - We are honest and genuine, what you see is what you get.
Role main purpose
The Technical Support Manager is a technical hands-on support role focussed predominantly on supporting MS office 365 services and various business application systems and services.
The ideal candidate will have 3+ years’ experience in technology with a particular focus on Microsoft Active Directory, Office 365, Azure Active Directory and MS Intune services. Experience with systems such as Mimecast, Exclaimer, Data Loss Prevention and Cisco Umbrella is preferred.
Vida is going through a significant period of change and growth alongside working towards becoming a Bank. The candidate will therefore need to be a initiative-taker who can operate in a fast-paced environment and has a proven track record in helping organisations build and embed capabilities and systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing hardware and software support, ensuring high quality of service, and using service management tools to facilitate resolution of incidents and requests.
- Provide hands on technical support within the London office (Head Office)
- Build devices for new starters / replacement hardware, using predefined build process, assist with moves & changes.
- Understanding and providing support to core platforms and integrated services, this includes working with other members of the technical team.
- Working with internal IT and suppliers to support deployments, upgrades, and configuration changes within the estate.
- Write clear technical knowledge base articles and troubleshooting guides for use by other support team members as required.
- Assist with routine security procedures including patch management and privileged access management systems.
- Assist with routine out of hours patch management as required.
- Occasional travel to our Staines office will be required.
Requirements
- Essential: Graduate or equivalent 3+ years’ experience within an IT support function.
- Essential: Strong troubleshooting skills on Windows OS, MS Office 365 including the Office suite of apps.
- Essential: Experience using Active Director, MS Intune and aspects of MS Azure.
- Essential: Experience using remote assistance tools like TeamViewer.
- Ideal: Strong experience with PowerShell scripting, Active Directory and Exchange administration.
- Ideal: Experience working with an ITSM ticket system, ensuring requests & issues are logged correctly and accurately.
- Ideal: A good understanding of the Financial Services industry and the regulations impacting it.
- Preferred: ITIL Foundation Qualification.
- Preferred: Experience in deploying configurations, scripts and conditional access policies remotely via MS Intune.
- Preferred: Knowledge of regulatory controls, customer conduct & successful outcomes, mortgage products.
- Preferred: Experience working in a hybrid in-house/outsourced IT environment.
Our Culture
As an equal opportunities employer, Belmont Green and Vida are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us. We believe diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
Benefits
Belmont Green and Vida offers comprehensive benefits package to support our employees’ professional and personal needs.
Head of Mortgage Product Management
About us
More than ever before, borrowers need a lender that will react and respond when they are faced with financial complexity. Vida is the mortgage lending specialist with a clear focus on helping more customers in their home ownership journey, unravelling complex situations, and making the process clear and simple.
Working exclusively with expert intermediary partners, Vida combines cutting-edge technology with skilled and caring people to deliver an efficient and differentiated customer experience. With over 11,000 customers we have lent over £2.1bn since our launch in 2015, but we want to do more. By continuing to invest in technology, people, and process to ensure we deliver a market leading proposition that helps more people with a wider range of home buying needs.
We are flexible and efficient; we cut through complexity and never accept second best.
At Vida, we always keep our promises, what you see is what you get, and it will never change. Put simply, Vida helps those who are typically ignored by high street banks to get life moving.
With three offices in Egham, London, and Skipton, we bring teams together regularly to collaborate but empower our colleagues to have more choice around when and where they work on the days they are not in the office, with colleagues working remotely in various locations across the UK.
Our Values
Our values lie at the heart of everything we do and provide a frame of reference for the behaviour we expect to see in our people every day. Refreshed in 2020, we look for these qualities when hiring new talent into the organisation, and they underpin our approach to personal development and performance management for all our people. We are:
Visionary - We innovate and break old habits, thinking big and pushing boundaries together as one team.
Inclusive - We value each other’s differences and work to see people for who they really are.
Dynamic - We are flexible and fast, cutting through complexity and never accepting second best.
Authentic - We are honest and genuine, what you see is what you get.
Role main purpose
The Head of Mortgage Product Management’s primary responsibility is to manage the end to end performance of our mortgage product set throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring we deliver great outcomes for customers and strong commercial performance for the business. Key success measures will include Trading Performance v Plan (notably volumes and mix); retention/redemption performance v Plan; the achievement of consistently high quality customer and broker outcomes and achieving full compliance with the relevant business risk policies and control standards, including conduct risk, product governance and adherence to RCSA requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership of day to day product management activities throughout the product lifecycle
- Develop and lead a programme of continuous improvement to the product range – within the enhancements being delivered through BAU or ‘small change’ activities.
- Lead the management of the ‘in-life’ and ‘at maturity’ stages of the product lifecycle, ensuring customers are treated fairly and commercial performance is optimised.
- In collaboration with the relevant internal stakeholders, ensure a robust control environment is in place to ensure suitability of product offering throughout the lifecycle.
- Work closely with operations and risk teams to ensure that customer requirements and outcomes are understood and delivered in line with the target customer service levels.
- Oversee risk and regulatory management across the mortgage product set to ensure all regulatory requirements and policies are met.
- Undertake annual product reviews in line with regulatory best practice and identify opportunities to improve customer outcomes where these fall short of expectations.
- Engage and involve mortgage intermediaries (networks, clubs and packagers) on an ongoing basis to ensure their input and advice is incorporated into our products, criteria, achievement of objectives, and overall customer proposition. Support the development of new relationships.
- Leadership of direct reports and ensure constructive and positive partnerships are built and maintained with business stakeholders
- First point of contact for Distribution and Marketing teams
- Management of third-party sourcing and criteria relationships
Represent the brand externally, whether through dealings with trade press, intermediaries or industry peers.
Requirements
- Extensive Financial Services mortgage experience at a Senior Manager / Head of level.
- Experience of successfully delivering mortgage product changes from start to end.
- Experience of identifying and delivering mortgage proposition and lending criteria / policy changes.
- Experience of managing and setting the strategy for the end-to-end mortgage customer journey including product maturity.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, across all levels of the organisation up to Executive level.
- Thinks customer first and able to translate that to proposition improvements.
- Strong working knowledge of regulatory requirements including MCOB and Consumer Duty.
- Knowledge and experience of working in the specialist market preferable but not essential.
- Experience of working with and influencing senior leaders.
- Maintains up to date market knowledge particularly across the specialist lending market. Anticipates trends in both the internal and external environment.
- Encourages and exemplifies a culture where high standards of performance, timely delivery, an appropriate sense of urgency and quality is expected and recognised.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills in particular Powerpoint, Word and Excel.
Our Culture
As an equal opportunities employer, Belmont Green and Vida are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us. We believe diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
Benefits
Belmont Green and Vida offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees’ professional and personal needs.
FP&A Manager - Costs
About us
More than ever before, borrowers need a lender that will react and respond when they are faced with financial complexity. Vida is the mortgage lending specialist with a clear focus on helping more customers in their home ownership journey, unravelling complex situations, and making the process clear and simple.
Working exclusively with expert intermediary partners, Vida combines cutting-edge technology with skilled and caring people to deliver an efficient and differentiated customer experience. With over 11,000 customers we have lent over £2.1bn since our launch in 2015, but we want to do more. By continuing to invest in technology, people, and process to ensure we deliver a market leading proposition that helps more people with a wider range of home buying needs.
We are flexible and efficient; we cut through complexity and never accept second best.
At Vida, we always keep our promises, what you see is what you get, and it will never change. Put simply, Vida helps those who are typically ignored by high street banks to get life moving.
With three offices in Egham, London, and Skipton, we bring teams together regularly to collaborate but empower our colleagues to have more choice around when and where they work on the days they are not in the office, with colleagues working remotely in various locations across the UK.
Our Values
Our values lie at the heart of everything we do and provide a frame of reference for the behaviour we expect to see in our people every day. Refreshed in 2020, we look for these qualities when hiring new talent into the organisation, and they underpin our approach to personal development and performance management for all our people. We are:
Visionary - We innovate and break old habits, thinking big and pushing boundaries together as one team.
Inclusive - We value each other’s differences and work to see people for who they really are.
Dynamic - We are flexible and fast, cutting through complexity and never accepting second best.
Authentic - We are honest and genuine, what you see is what you get.
Role main purpose
The Finance team is responsible for the financial integrity of the Belmont Green business. This involves the preparation of management, statutory and regulatory reports and the maintenance of underlying accounting records within a robust financial controls framework. Preparing financial forecasts, analysis and strategic plans in a dynamic business environment is a core part of the Finance team’s role.
Financial Planning & Analysis Managers are responsible for supporting the delivery of financial forecasts, plans and financial analysis that enhances management’s understanding of the key financial business drivers that will deliver the growth and future sale of the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead on the detailed cost modelling and ownership of the operating cost forecast for the business.
- Act as a business partner on costs to all areas of the business, reporting on performance and providing insightful financial analysis to support management decision making.
- Develop relationships with all areas of the business to understand and challenge changes in the cost base across the business.
- Work with the Financial Control team to ensure reporting of actuals and forecasts are aligned, consistent messages are delivered to business management and process improvements are made on dataflows.
- Support in the preparation of materials for presenting financial forecasts and analysis to management.
Knowledge & Experience
- Experience of financial modelling in a financial services environment is preferable but not essential.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or in exceptional circumstance part-qualified, with a strong academic background.
Leadership Skills and Personal Qualities
- A high level of determination, willingness and flexibility to deliver to a high standard against tight deadlines.
- Be able to present financial data to a high standard in a clear and concise format.
- Very strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Communicates in a constructive, positive and respectful manner that demonstrates respect.
Our Culture
As an equal opportunities employer, Belmont Green and Vida are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us. We believe diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
Benefits
Belmont Green and Vida offers comprehensive benefits package to support our employees’ professional and personal needs, these are:
- Agile Working
- Annual Leave - 28 days annual leave rising to 30 days (1 extra day per full year worked)
- Buy Annual Leave
- Birthday - We provide staff their birthday off to celebrate in style
- Vitality - Private Medical (Single cover) with Vitality as a ‘Benefit in Kind’ including discounts and health incentives
- Health MOT - Annual health checks with Vitality representative
- Free eye tests
- Free flu jabs
- Pension - up to 10% employer contribution after probation.
- Season Ticket Loan - We understand that some staff will need to rely on public transport in order to attend their work location. This benefit is intended to help staff cover the costs of a season ticket.
- Life Assurance - Offering 4 x basic salary
- Group Income Protection Insurance
- Annual Bonus - (company and personal performance related)
- Volunteering opportunities
- Car Parking - Free parking at Egham and Skipton offices.
- Education and Further Learning - We are keen believers in continuous professional development (CPD) and are committed to the development of all employees for the mutual benefit of the individual and furthering the business ability and needs. We encourage both professional qualifications and courses that are directly relevant to your current position and/or career path.
- Employee Referral Incentive Scheme
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