Company Description

Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard-to-reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement.

FX and cross-border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross-border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to, from, and across often hard-to-reach markets.

Job Description

We are looking for a individual to drive strategic and tactical technology improvements to the bank’s platforms, processes and controls.

This will include:

• Collaborating with business and technology stakeholders to understand project goals and document technology requirements
• Assessing requirements against the current and target state architecture to assess and document the technology implications and requirements
• Oversee successful implementation of changes
• Recommend ongoing improvements to platforms to align to business and technology strategies. 
• Act as subject matter expert for one or more technology domains E.g. FX, Cross Border Payments, Core Banking
• Realising value for Product, Transformation and Technology sponsored initiatives.

Qualifications

Skills:

• 10+ years experience in technology project roles including 5 years in Banking Held technology roles in large bank(s) and Fintech providing FX and / or cross border payments (e.g. SWIFT)
• Technical and functional experience of end-to-end FX and / or cross border payment processing and the technology products and services that provide these
• Business analysis
• Project management and Planning
• Requirements assessment
• Stakeholder management
• Agile and Waterfall delivery
• Jira/Confluence
• Writing technical user stories
• Backlog management Cloud Technologies
• APIs, microservices, event driven systems Integration

Additional Information

• Hybrid working
• Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
• Life Assurance – 4 times annual salary
• Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical, Dental and Audiology
• Discretionary Bonus
• Competitive Annual Leave
• 2 Volunteering Days
• Benefit Hut