Operations and Product Executive, Abundance Investment
£30-35k
Direct investing platform focused on green, local investments
Open for applications
Direct investing platform focused on green, local investments
1-20 employees
Open for applications
£30-35k
1-20 employees
Company mission
Abundance Investment's mission is to help users mobilise their money for good
Role
Who you are
- A graduate with at least a 2:1 degree from a top university
- Passionate about savings and investments and how your money can deliver local impact
- 1 to 2 years of work experience would be a positive, but not essential
- Have opinions and ask questions, but are still great at listening and learning
- Curious about how things work and how they can be better and more efficient
- You like to solve problems and are good at getting others to support your ideas
- Able to handle changing priorities and varied responsibilities
- Confident and self-motivated, able to work in a dynamic and multi-tasking workplace
- Comfortable talking to customers and keen to help out
- Ability to work remotely, with a comfortable and quiet home-working environment
Desirable
- Some experience in product development, particularly in technology and app development
- Some experience in working with automation tools such as Zapier, Make or n8n, or integrating services directly through APIs
- Familiarity with work tools such as Notion, Airtable or other similar services
- Working with data, using languages such as SQL, and using data visualisation tools such as Looker Studio
What the job involves
- Administration of our investment platform, such as processing daily transactions and ISA transfers or reviewing new customer applications (10% of your day)
- Talking to customers (phone, email and chat), helping resolve their queries (10% of your day)
- Supporting the wider team on new features, data analysis, product development and finding better ways of working (80% of your day)
- Build and optimise processes to support the company’s growth and expansion into new areas and products
- Find ways to make our processes quicker, more efficient, and better for our customers. It might be automating an existing process, or looking at how we can use AI to improve our customer support
- Work closely with other teams to deliver new investments, new products and platform features
Application process
- 1. Apply online
- 2. We will be in touch if you are through to the next round.
Our take
Access to green infrastructure investments is becoming more open than it was back in 2012 when Abundance Investment launched, helping smaller investors join the deep-pocketed ranks of green energy project funders. In the intervening time, Abundance have helped standardise the practice, putting together a collection of financial tools and private and municipal investment opportunities to help users build a green portfolio from as little as £5.
This selection of investment opportunities is currently limited, which may push would-be clients away onto another green-focused investment platform. Plenty of them have cropped up recently, and reports from the last year suggest that retail investments are seeing a surge in interest in green, responsible funds. So there could be much to play for, and Abundance may need to increase their offerings to stay competitive.
Abundance’s low minimum investment, however, has historically served as a good on-ramp for investors - who on average go on to put about £15,000 into the platform. This has helped them raise over £110 million from nearly 7,000 individual investors, so the model works well. With more projects getting up off the ground after Covid, Abundance may begin to find more opportunities to broaden their selection.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2020
$1m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$1.6m
SEED
Total funding: $6.5m
Company benefits
- Company pension
- Benefits packaged, depending on the role
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Louise Wilson
(Joint Managing Director)Previously served on the syndicate desk at Union Bank of Switzerland, before spending over a decade as the bank's Head of European Equity Capital Markets.
Bruce Davis
(Joint Managing Director)Previously Senior Consultant at The Value Engineers, before going on to create Monkey Shoulder Whisky and carry out a number of enthnographic research projects. Then a visiting research fellow at the Bauman Institute.
Karl Harder
(Joint Managing Director)Previously an Energy Policy Adviser for the Liberal Democrats, he went on to co-found Green Your Office.
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