Strategic Delivery Lead, Seccl
£85-115k
Plus Octopus Share Incentive Plan
3 days a week in office
The embedded investment platform
Posted today
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
Posted today
£85-115k
Plus Octopus Share Incentive Plan
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well.
Role
Who you are
- You have a background in financial services, fintech or another regulated industry and understand the complexity that comes with delivering significant change
- You have experience leading large, complex programmes (such as major re-platforming or new market expansion), and understand the complexities and inter-dependencies involved
- You’ve independently led complex, high-stakes programmes from start to finish, with accountability for delivery
- You’re comfortable creating direction and structure where there isn’t an existing playbook, and solving problems as they emerge
- You build strong relationships and collaborate well across teams, while being confident enough to challenge, hold people to account and make difficult decisions
- You understand both delivery and the commercial case behind it, including cost, value and trade-offs
- You’re strong at cross-functional dependency and risk management and know when to make the call yourself
- 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
What the job involves
- You’ll join our strategic delivery team, reporting to our head of strategic delivery, and lead some of Seccl’s biggest and most complex programmes. These could include managing our entry to new markets, overseeing the onboarding of major new customers, tackling significant re-platforming projects or launching new operating models
- You’ll take responsibility for a programme end to end – turning a strategic or commercial objective into a workable plan, bringing together the right people from across Seccl and driving the decisions needed to get it delivered
- You’ll work across the business – collaborating with our product, engineering, operations, commercial, risk and finance teams, as well as directly with senior stakeholders at our customer firms. These programmes will be of significant commercial value and come with real complexity, so you’ll need to build strong relationships, make difficult calls and know when something genuinely needs escalating
- Own complex strategic programmes end to end, from business case and mobilisation through to launch, migration and handover
- Build the business case, delivery plan, team and governance needed to get a programme moving
- Lead cross-functional delivery across Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Risk, Finance and other teams
- Drive decisions and resolve blockers, while managing risks, dependencies, scope, cost and timelines
- Lead commercial discussions with customer firms where needed, working closely with Commercial and Legal
- Run readiness and go/no-go decisions, then closing programmes against their original business case
Application process
- Interviewing is a two-way process. Our interviews are conversational, with plenty of time for you to get to know us and ask questions too
- First stage: an initial discussion around your relevant experience and how you work with the hiring manager and another strategic delivery lead
- Second stage: role-specific assessment with the hiring manager and chief product officer
- Final stage: a bar raiser interview with our chief technology officer
- We review applications as they come in and may close the role once we have enough candidates to move forward. We’ll keep you updated throughout
Our take
Seccl is an embedded investment platform revolutionising how companies offer investment services. With its API-first technology infrastructure, it helps financial professionals and businesses launch and manage investment platforms easily. By simplifying old, clunky processes, Seccl gives firms the tools they need to offer customers a seamless, digital investing experience - whether it's for financial advisers, neobanks, or fast-growing startups.
Since being acquired by Octopus in 2019, Seccl has seen impressive growth. Now supporting over 1 million investors, it manages more than £6 billion in funds through its platform. With this, Seccl is well on track to power even more businesses, and as it continues to grow, its mission to disrupt the industry with smarter, scalable solutions is only growing in momentum.
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Company benefits
- Flexible/hybrid working: We don’t prescribe when or how many days you come into the office. It’s what you deliver that’s important
- Events and socials: Twice-yearly all-company offsites, regular team socials and plenty of non-work activities – from gigs to sporting activities – to get stuck into
- Private medical: Access GP and other health and dental appointments work through private medical insurance
- Focus on mental health: Your wellbeing is more important than work. We offer free and confidential access to therapy if you need it
- Long-service award: A month’s fully-paid sabbatical when you’ve worked here for eight years (we’re part of Octopus, after all)
- The usual stuff: 27 days’ holiday (plus religious holidays and your birthday), Cycle2Work scheme and workplace pension
Company values
- Never settle
- Take ownership
- Be generous and candid
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
David Ferguson
(Executive Chairman)Joined Seccl in 2022 as CEO. Before that, they spent 15 years as the CEO of Nucleus Financial Group.
Jonathan Dees
(CEO)Previously COO of Octopus Investments and ZPG. Before that, they were Interim CFO at the Fairtrade Foundation.
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