Location: Bath or Edinburgh - Hybrid with two days a week in our Manvers Street or George Street office
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s on a mission to helping more people to invest – and invest well.
We’re B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We've been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years.
We’re also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi billion group that's on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.
We're looking for an experienced Operations delivery lead to join our Pensions operations team at an exciting stage of growth.
This role will lead the operational delivery of Seccl's SIPP and ISA products. You'll be responsible for building the operational structure, processes and controls required to support a growing tax wrappers operation, ensuring we can scale efficiently whilst continuing to deliver excellent customer outcomes. A key part of the role will be working with product and engineering teams to design and embed scalable operational processes that align with the specific regulatory requirements of tax wrappers, ensuring robust controls are built into the operating model from the outset.
Reporting to the Head of payments & reporting, you'll lead a specialist team of operations analysts focused on pensions and tax wrappers. Partnering closely with product, engineering, technical services, you’ll have genuine scope to own, redesign and implement new ways of working to deliver operational excellence. This is a hands on leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex operational challenges, building high performing teams and creating scalable processes from the ground up.
Acting as escalation point for incidents, coordinating response, communications, root cause analysis and lasting fixes.
You have a strong understanding of how the regulatory environment shapes pension and investment operations, including Consumer Duty, CASS, pension and ISA specific regulatory obligations
We offer a generous mix of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including:
A salary between £50,000 and £70,000 – dependant on experience + reviewed annually
27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave
Two volunteering days per year
Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
Secclbrate - our recognition programme that offers a mix of flexible rewards including extra pay, additional holiday and increased learning budget
Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years
✅ 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance
Private medical insurance with AXA Health
Enhanced Parental leave
MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget
£750 per person learning budget
Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace
Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy
Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts
Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing
We're proud to put people first, creating a culture where we truly listen to what matters most to them. Our transparent and inclusive environment encourages diversity of thought, challenge and experimentation.
Interview process
Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this, (following an initial chat with one of our Talent team):
- We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out and you should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying.
Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive company of awesome people, with unique skills, passions and experiences. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!
Compensation Range: £50K - £70K
