Senior Product Manager, Seccl
Tax and Recs
£75-90k
3 days a week in office
The embedded investment platform
Posted today
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
Posted today
£75-90k
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 track record of owning a product area end to end, ideally in reconciliations, custody, investment operations or tax in a regulated environment (e.g. fintech, banking, investments, pensions, insurance)
- You understand client money and money flow
- You’re comfortable operating in 0→1 or highly ambiguous environments where structure doesn’t yet exist
- You can bring clarity to complex, undefined problems and turn them into actionable plans
- You’re highly proactive: you create momentum rather than wait for direction
- You’re customer-obsessed, with a focus on improving workflows and outcomes
- You thrive in cross-functional environments, working comfortably with Operations, Compliance, Customer and Engineering, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
- 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
- We’re looking for a Senior product manager to join the Tax and Recs squad in our European tribe
- You’ll own how we reconcile client cash and assets, and how we help our clients report their customers’ tax correctly, as we grow across Europe
- Our European strategy has two parts
- First, we’re going deep in Ireland, building a full proposition with the products, tax wrappers and pensions that Irish firms and their clients need
- Second, we’re building the foundations to spread at speed into more European countries, with a focused offering for each market rather than a rebuild every time we enter a new one
- The Tax and Recs squad makes both possible: we can only grow if our reconciliations hold up under regulatory scrutiny and our tax engine is something clients can trust
- You won’t be joining a finished roadmap
- You’ll help define it, with real ownership over the problems that will decide how far and how fast we can grow in Europe
- You’ll work closely with our Operations, Compliance and Customer teams, and with key European clients
- A reliable tax engine is not just a regulatory necessity, it is a genuine advantage when we sell to new firms, so your work will be felt well beyond the squad
- Scaling our cash and stock reconciliations to meet Client Asset Requirements (CAR) in Ireland, so we can grow volumes with confidence
- Making sure our Operations team’s processes work in Europe and scale as we do
- Building the tax reporting and tax engine for Ireland, so our clients can report tax correctly on behalf of their customers across the wrappers that matter to Irish firms
- Localising that foundation to each wrapper and each country across Europe, rather than starting again every time
- Connecting directly to tax authorities where a country requires us to pay tax on behalf of our clients’ customers
- Making our tax engine reliable, transparent and easy to build on, so tax becomes a reason firms choose Seccl
- Defining and prioritising the Tax and Recs squad’s roadmap, balancing what Ireland needs today with what the next European markets will need
- Translating regulatory requirements, including CAR and Irish tax rules, into clear product requirements with Compliance
- Breaking down complex problems like localising a tax engine into clear, actionable plans with engineers and other stakeholders
- Using quantitative and qualitative data, such as break rates, exceptions and resolution times, to make evidence-based decisions
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 – 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
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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