Our Client is looking for a Senior Compliance Consultant to join in an exciting time in the organisation's timeline.

Our client is a well regarded investment firm based here in Edinburgh. The consultant they bring in would look to:

• support and advice is provided to the business on regulatory and control issues as well as business change and regulatory projects in a timely and value added manner;
• ensure the business is supported to ensure that they are aware of and meet the requirements of the enterprise risk management framework;
• make sure the sources of risk in the business are proactively identified and assessed
• maintain the company profile is raised through representation at industry forums;
• provide and ensure effective communication takes place with the wider Risk and Compliance team both in the UK and globally

Knowledge

• Relevant knowledge of FCA and overseas regulations
• Good knowledge of investment management business and related regulation and best practice
• Good knowledge of relevant industry bodies
• Knowledge of investment products and funds

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Application Support / Infrastructure Support

A leading financial services company based in the heart of The City of London are currently looking for an Application Support Analyst to join their London Office.

Required Skills -

• Application Experience
• Microsoft Office Experience
• SQL Sever
• Excel/Outlook
• Windows Server
• PowerShell

Nice to have -

• Azure

If you'd like to hear more about this position please apply below.

I am currently seeking a Cloud Ops engineer who has some experience in Ruby my client provides investment management services including mutual funds, pension management and fund platforms to private and institutional investors.

What they are looking for?

• A strong development or infrastructure senior engineer with hands on experience of cloud based security technologies across multiple cloud providers, proficient in Ruby & familiar with Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins/Concourse focusing on delivering services that are loosely coupled, highly scalable & coded to cope with failure at every level.

• Excellent knowledge of creating & managing continuous delivery pipelines enabling continuous integration using test driven development with high coverage in a multi-tenant, full stack Production enterprise cloud configuration where rolling intra-day upgrades are BAU, security & audit requirements are met by default.

• A responsible engineer who views TDD & software engineering.

• A versatile engineer who has exposure of networking, virtualisation & all aspects of security having deployed to multiple cloud environments.

What my client does?

• Core team mantras are automation - self service - innovation

• Engineer & support all aspects of the core AWS based services through continuous delivery pipelines in a multi-tenant Production enterprise environment.

• Pair program, every day using test driven development

• Challenge the status quo & deliver high quality MVPs

• Collaborative, transparent friendly working environment

• Daily stand-ups, weekly retros.

If you are interested I or would like to know more about the role, please apply for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

My client is seeking a hungry, talented Product designer to join a team in Canary Wharf, London. My client offers cloud-based finance benefit that enables businesses to figure compensations and pay all employees electronically.

Requirements

• Plan and implement user research and discovery work for specific markets and usage situations
• Apply planned thinking to design and design effective, appealing experiences which balance user requirements, business goals, and technological realities
• Link designs through sketches, flows, customer journeys, and wireframes, leading cross-disciplinary team communication, collaboration and development.
• Make lightweight prototypes which communicate the intent of initial designs and concepts with the aim of galvanizing the team toward cracking a common outcome
• Collaborate with product leaders, dev, marketing, and other teams

Core skills

• Work on multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Web and markets business 2 business, Business to customer and internal.
• Create UI designs that will help with the customer experience. Make sure that the visual elements of the product backs overall usability and represent the companies brand.
• Good precise communication skills
• Previous Involvement with Agile or Lean product teams.
• Believer in lean UX principles – not a 800 page UX specification J
• Involvement in hypothesis-driven design, A/B testing,
• Emphasis on metrics and shipping fast while designing stylish solutions for the problem at hand.
• Quick at building prototypes that show what’s can be done.
• Write humane, on-brand, and lucid copy for the interfaces and interactions you design.
• Working alongside the product and engineer teams to create the best experiences possible.

In return the client is looking to pay up to £60,000 deepening on experience flexible/ some remote working will be part of the package.

If you feel you have the right skill set, please apply for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

My client is seeking a hungry, talented Product designer to join a team in Canary Wharf, London. My client offers cloud-based finance benefit that enables businesses to figure compensations and pay all employees electronically.

Requirements

• Plan and implement user research and discovery work for specific markets and usage situations
• Apply planned thinking to design and design effective, appealing experiences which balance user requirements, business goals, and technological realities
• Link designs through sketches, flows, customer journeys, and wireframes, leading cross-disciplinary team communication, collaboration and development.
• Make lightweight prototypes which communicate the intent of initial designs and concepts with the aim of galvanizing the team toward cracking a common outcome
• Collaborate with product leaders, dev, marketing, and other teams

Core skills

• Work on multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Web and markets business 2 business, Business to customer and internal.
• Create UI designs that will help with the customer experience. Make sure that the visual elements of the product backs overall usability and represent the companies brand.
• Good precise communication skills
• Previous Involvement with Agile or Lean product teams.
• Believer in lean UX principles – not a 800 page UX specification J
• Involvement in hypothesis-driven design, A/B testing,
• Emphasis on metrics and shipping fast while designing stylish solutions for the problem at hand.
• Quick at building prototypes that show what’s can be done.
• Write humane, on-brand, and lucid copy for the interfaces and interactions you design.
• Working alongside the product and engineer teams to create the best experiences possible.

In return the client is looking to pay up to £60,000 deepening on experience flexible/ some remote working will be part of the package.

If you feel you have the right skill set, please apply for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Business Audit Manager

Strategic

• Perform continuous monitoring of the business, under the direction of audit management, to identify emerging risks and issues and report to audit management and the Audit & Finance Committee.
• To monitor and review key projects within the organisation and highlight any unidentified risks or potential control issues

Operational

• Independently assess risks and controls within the organisation and its entities and report to management, the AFC and regulators on their adequacy and effectiveness.
• Assist in the development of the annual Audit Plan based on an assessment of the key risks and continuous review of risks to ensure the plan is amended where appropriate.
• Perform independent validation to confirm management’s remediation of audit and regulatory issues.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with all levels of management and external parties.
• Contribute to complex, ambiguous, non-routine and cross-functional work as required.
• Responsible for the planning and execution of complex audits and high level reviews.
• Ability to travel to perform audits (approx. 1–2 trips per annum).

Skills

• Extensive experience working within Internal Audit in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and / or strong financial and operational audit experience across a range of business audits in a financial institution.
• Ability to provide technical subject matter expertise during integrated operational audits.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience of dealing with all levels of management; ability to influence at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, e.g. FRBNY

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIA)

Regulatory Change Business Analyst- 450pd - 6 months - Greater Manchester

Market innovator in Greater Manchester requires a Regulatory Change Business Analyst to work as part of a team on a wider transformation programme.

• Must have strong background in delivering regulatory change and compliance programmes
• Provide subject matter expertise designing the change programme and implementation/project management schedule
• Knowledge of Data Protection and GDPR beneficial
• Skills creating business documents using Visio
• Design and deliver new risk, governance and control frameworks in line with regulation
• Looking for a start as soon as possible
• Candidates in Greater Manchester and the surrounding areas highly preferred

Apply now for immediate CV review

Regulatory Change Business Analyst- 450pd - 6 months - Greater Manchester

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Lead Enterprise Architect- IT Strategy, Enterprise Vision, Integration Architecture, Domain Development, Legacy Migration, Cloud- Permanent- Northampton

Fantastic opening for a Lead Enterprise Architect to join a market leading business in the Northampton area. Ideal role for an already experienced Lead Enterprise Architect, who is looking to take on full end to end strategic design and implementation of area wide initiatives, with the autonomy to shape how the business estate will look in the future.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Educated to Bachelor’s Degree level in a relevant discipline, or possessing similar equivalent professional qualifications
• At least 5 years experience in a Lead Enterprise Architect role, with a strong focus on technical solutions and governance
• Excellent understanding of web technologies, architecture methodologies and delivery standards to contribute to technical excellence
• Solid grasp of platform migration, legacy systems migration and microservices solutions in a data processing or transactions management environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills to support the shaping of vision and delivery road map for enterprise architecture, and liaising with a range of technical and business oriented parties
• Exposure to working in highly Agile environments, taking on responsibility for multiple strategic programmes
• Solid understanding of integration architecture across to support excellent web based solutions, cloud hosted platforms and microservices, including the communication solution between applications

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take on a leading role in the delivery of end to end, enterprise scale change programmes
• Design and deliver solutions that satisfy both technical and business side requirements to ensure that they fall in line with the wider targets and strategies of the organization
• Make recommendations for changes that could be made to existing enterprise architecture to encourage best practices and raise the standard of the enterprise architecture methodology
• Shape the technological estate, guiding technical stakeholder and C-level executives on how best to deliver their transformation programmes
• Work closely with cross-functional team to coordinate the best IT strategy for the business, and make strategic recommendations on how best to govern and implement the strategy to balance both business value and customer value
• Provide leadership to junior team members, in terms of both day to day management, and long term coaching and mentoring

Lead Enterprise Architect- IT Strategy, Enterprise Vision, Integration Architecture, Domain Development, Legacy Migration, Cloud- Permanent- Northampton

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Server Side C# Software Developer – Greenfield - FinTech - Contract OR Perm

The Firm are looking for Software Developers to assist in building a greenfield IT platform from the ground up. The role will focus on a range of areas including the core banking platform as well as internal and external facing APIs.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate solid technical capabilities and initiative. Experience and passion of working in an agile, innovative and fast paced environment is key to this role.
Required Skills:
• C# (.NET)
• Multi-threading
• Service orientated architecture (SOA)
• Unit Testing
• SQL Server and T-SQL
• Messaging systems (e.g. Azure Service Bus, Rabbit MQ, NService Bus)
• TDD / BDD
• Cloud computing and concepts, preferably with Microsoft Azure
• Financial experience within Domain (payment scheme knowledge e.g. Swift, BACS, Chaps, Faster Payments) and or Cards (Visa / Mastercard)

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, age, sexuality, gender identification, or physical ability.

Head of Information & Cyber Security Policy required for global banking organisation. This role sits in the The Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) organisation.

The Head of Information & Cyber Security Policy will head up an international team responsible for the creation of new control documents, the review of existing control documents and the rollout of Information and cyber security policy related controls .

As a strategic role, it will require strong business acumen and detailed knowledge of information security & cyber security policies and procedures. The successful candidate will be someone who has finely tuned understanding of the challenges of policy implementation and can respond in an agile and collaborative manner to ongoing business and regulatory requirements.

The Head of Information & Cyber Security Policy will face off to the business and be a first class communicator with strong C-level stakeholder management skills. They will play the lead role in driving key policy projects and programmes, the creation of a strategy for developing Policy outreach and awareness and contribute to the strategic plans for the policy and awareness teams.

The Head of Information & Cyber Security Policy will be accountable for team management, talent management, recruitment of new team members, training, employee engagement and other employee related initiatives.

The position will require quarterly travel to international offices to maintain contact with members of your team and key regional stakeholders in global security business units.

Applications from candidates with security related degrees and relevant security industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA are welcomed.

For more information on this role please contact Neil Morgan at McGregor Boyall