Information Security Manager, Octopus Money
£60-75k
In office Tues, Weds, Thurs
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Making advice and investing accessible for all
Posted today
Making advice and investing accessible for all
101-200 employees
Posted today
£60-75k
In office Tues, Weds, Thurs
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help millions of people take the first steps towards making their life dreams a reality.
Role
Who you are
- Comfortable being both strategic and hands-on: you can define frameworks but also configure a SIEM or troubleshoot IAM policies
- Experience in fin tech or another regulated environment (bonus if you’ve worked with FCA or ISO requirements)
- Familiar with security frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls, OWASP) and how to apply them pragmatically
- Strong collaborator: able to work with engineers, risk, devops, and leadership to balance speed, quality, and security
- Excited by building things in a growing company—comfortable with ambiguity, proactive, and keen to have real impact
- A genuine desire to help people and improve their lives, aligning with our mission-driven business
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Information Security Manager who doesn’t just want to own policies - they want to build, configure, investigate, and make security part of how we work
- You’ll be our first dedicated security professional, shaping our approach while being close to the technology and people who make it happen
- This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious self-starter to accelerate your development taking a broad and varied role, within a rapidly growing company
- You will be instrumental in defining and delivering our security strategy and operations from the ground up
- Security hands-on: Configure tools, manage incidents, and partner with engineers and IT to keep our environment secure
- Develop security baselines: Ensure every component of our core infrastructure has documented standards for configuration, monitoring, and access
- Own the essentials: Identity management, device management (MDM), endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, and cloud security guardrails
- Policy & practice: Support the draft of pragmatic policies and procedures, but also help teams put them into practice without slowing delivery
- Build a culture of security: Train, coach, and enable colleagues to take ownership of security in their daily work
- Plan for growth: Support the risk and technology teams with security as the business grows, including vendor management, compliance readiness (ISO 27001, FCA expectations), and future team building
Application process
- Interested? Let us know and we'll be in touch!
- Please note, as a regulated business we are required to run background checks for all employees which covers adverse financial and unspent convictions
- These will only take place upon a successful job offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus Money believes that offering financial coaching to employees is the most effective way to improve their financial well-being. The company is a financial coaching start-up that aims to make useful financial advice accessible to everybody. According to the company, the employees who use its service - numbering at over 250,000 - save, on average, around £9700 per year.
The company differentiates itself through its business model - the service is free, and the company adopts upselling techniques. Octopus Money can easily be implemented by employers within their organisations, giving each employee their own expert financial coach for free. According to the company, most employees will then choose to upgrade their plans and become paying customers.
The business was formerly called Hatch and has been acquired by the Octopus Group. It also powers financial services firms aligned with its values to complement its financial coaching products, covering more bases to draw in a wider customer reach. Octopus Money already counts SecretEscapes, Epson, and Octopus Energy among its growing client base.
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Company benefits
- 18 day “work from anywhere” allowance every year (you can choose to work from home or anywhere, including other countries)
- 6% company pension
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave, if you’ve been with us for at least 15 months: 6 months fully paid leave for primary carers, 2 months fully paid leave for secondary carers
- Private health insurance through Aviva
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line for you and your immediate family members
- Discretionary up to 10% bonus at the end of each financial year, based on the performance of the company
- Access to the Octopus Group Share Incentive Plan
- Paid therapy via Spill
Company values
- Make Every Conversation Matter - We care deeply about how we make customers and colleagues feel – on every call, email, screen and event. It won’t always be perfect, but we’ll always work harder to keep making it better.
- Move with Urgency and Focus - We’re impatient to make remarkable things. We focus on what matters most, make fast initial progress and then iterate forward.
- Own It - We take full ownership of our work – from the smallest detail to the final outcome. We have the courage to break new ground, to hold ourselves and each other accountable, to tackle challenges head-on and find solutions that make a lasting impact.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
Ruth Handcock
(CEO)Founding member of Tandem Bank, former CEO of Octopus Investment and chairperson for Octopus Legacy, Seccl, amicable.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Money
- We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated. We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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