Operations Delivery Lead, Seccl
Europe
2-3 days a week in office
The embedded investment platform
Be an early applicant
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 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 strong experience in European custody and trading operations, ideally within a broker, custodian, fintech or platform business
- You understand the end-to-end lifecycle of trades and assets, including settlement, reconciliation, corporate actions and payments
- You have experience working across European markets and understand their operational nuances
- You’re comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where structures and processes are continually tested, improved and scaled
- You can translate complex regulatory and operational requirements into clear, executable processes
- You’re hands-on, equally comfortable designing processes as executing them
- You can make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, risk and scalability in a regulated environment
- You build strong cross-functional relationships and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Operations delivery lead to join our European expansion team. You’ll work closely with a cross-functional squad that spans product, commercial, compliance and engineering, helping to shape the operational capabilities needed to support Seccl's growth in Europe
- The role will be central to adapting and scaling our custody and trading operations for European markets – helping to ensure our operating model is robust, efficient and ready to support customer firms as they grow
- This is a rare opportunity to build on Seccl’s existing platform and operational experience, helping to adapt and scale our proven capabilities as we expand into new European markets
- Owning the operations workstream for the European launch across custody, assets and trading operations
- Designing and implementing operational processes including reconciliations, asset transfers, corporate actions, payments and trading
- Helping to shape the target operating model as the European business
- Acting as the point of coordination for complex operational issues and driving resolution end-to-end
- Supporting the onboarding of external partners, including defining operational requirements and assessing service levels
- Working with product and engineering to translate operational requirements into scalable platform capabilities
- Collaborating with compliance and regulatory leads to ensure processes meet local market expectations
- Identifying operational risks early and implementing pragmatic controls in a fast-moving regulated environment
Application 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):
- First stage – 45 mins competencies-based interview with the hiring manager + team member
- Second stage – one-hour technical focused interview, we will share a case study task in advance for you to present back to us on
- Final stage – 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview
- You should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying
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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