Executive Business Assistant, Seccl
£35-45k
Offers Octopus Share Incentive Plan
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
The embedded investment platform
Posted today
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
Posted today
£35-45k
Offers Octopus Share Incentive Plan
More information about location
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’re highly organised with excellent attention to detail and strong follow-through
- You’re confident writing professional communications and interacting with a range of stakeholders
- You’re proactive, positive and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
- You’re happy rolling up your sleeves and supporting a wide variety of operational and administrative tasks, and finding ways to automate them with AI or other tools
- You’re comfortable working independently, dealing with ambiguity and figuring things out when needed, while maintaining outstanding experience in every interaction
- You have experience in a role where you’ve helped others stay organised, operate effectively and deliver a great experience. We’re less focused on specific backgrounds or career paths, and more interested in your work ethic, curiosity and drive to make a meaningful impact in a scaling business
- You have strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience working in a startup, tech or fast-paced environment is desirable
- Familiarity with tools such as Microsoft suite, Slack, Outlook, Atlassian suite, HubSpot, ChatGPT (or another AI agent) is desirable
- 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 an Executive business assistant to join our Strategy & Enablement function, reporting into the Chief of staff office and working closely with our Executive (EXCO) and Commercial teams
- This is a broad, hands-on role designed to support the smooth running of the business through excellent coordination, organisation and operational support
- As we continue to grow, we’re looking for someone proactive, adaptable and highly organised who enjoys making things happen behind the scenes and keeping teams operating effectively
- You’ll join a collaborative, fast-moving environment where no two days look the same
- The Chief of Staff function plays a key role in enabling the wider business, supporting leadership priorities, coordinating strategic activities and helping teams operate efficiently
- This role offers broad exposure across the organisation, close interaction with senior stakeholders and the opportunity to develop into wider operational or strategic roles over time
- Coordinating EXCO meetings, leadership sessions and recurring business meetings
- Organising workshops, offsites and commercial team sessions across multiple stakeholders
- Managing meeting logistics including room bookings, catering, travel and accommodation
- Supporting board meeting coordination and governance administration
- Handling operational and administrative tasks that help the business run smoothly
- Coordinating with internal teams and external partners to manage schedules and logistics
- Maintaining trackers, actions and follow-ups to ensure strong operational execution
- Supporting process improvements and helping improve ways of working across teams, trough automation and enablement of great experience in every interaction
- What makes this role exciting..
- You’ll get exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making across the business
- You’ll be part of our AI transformation journey by enabling automation of manual processes across the business
- You’ll help create a brilliant experience for colleagues, customers and prospective customers through clear communication and thoughtful coordination
- You’ll have broad variety and visibility across multiple teams and functions
- You’ll have the opportunity to shape and evolve the role over time based on your strengths and interests
- You’ll have clear development potential into broader operations or Chief of Staff-type responsibilities
- You’ll join a collaborative, supportive team with ambitious growth plans
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 Chief of staff
- Second stage – 45 mins interview with two members of the Executive team
- Final stage – 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview
- ⏳ 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
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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