Delivery Consultant
Virgin Money
MANCHESTER, ENG, United Kingdom
Business Unit: COO Core Banking & Payments Salary Range: £67,200 - £84,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits Location : UK Remote Contract Type: Permanent
Be a change maker with more cha-ching. Live a life more Virgin.
Our Team
The Payments and Treasury team is focused on developing innovative, secure, integrated and seamless payment and treasury technologies that empower our customers to manage their finances effortlessly and confidently, while ensuring the highest standards of reliability and compliance. We re developing a new payments platform for the Bank and establishing a new operating model to enable us to achieve our goals.
What you ll be doing
The Delivery Consultant is a lean thinking change manager who can eliminate delivery impediments and improve operations and the delivery value stream/programme. They are change agents who can implement specific process changes using their organisational expertise to improve efficiencies and effectiveness in our agile teams ability to deliver change. They look at factors such as planned changes in strategy or new emerging technologies and plan for the implementation and integration of these changes into our teams whilst ensuring ongoing delivery of customer value.
Enabling the delivery mission and purpose for individuals and teams.
Listening to and supporting teams for systemic problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making.
Eliminating impediments and evolving delivery systems and practices to support development.
Supporting the self-organization that leads to team formation; addressing delivery and quality issues that teams cannot unblock.
Evaluating delivery performance, including team output; providing input, guidance, and corrective actions.
Help build Tribe & squad milestones and roadmaps, as well as the plans that enable them.
Participate in Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshops; support teams by helping them remove systemic impediments and implementing continuous improvement backlog items.
We need you to have
Strong motivational skills to enable the team to commit to and follow through on agreed delivery.
Great leadership abilities, with superb communication skills as well as the ability and soft skills to mentor and coach newly formed teams.
Demonstratable and numerous examples of learning by experience and doing over learning by certification.
In depth experience gained in a large software development organisation ideally in financial service working with cross functional delivery teams, including co-located and distributed teams.
It s a bonus if you have but not essential
Knowledge of payments and/or treasury technology
Demonstrable experience in a complex multi project delivery Financial Services environment
Knowledge of banking operations or financial service experience
Red Hot Rewards
Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
Up to five extra paid well-being days per year .
20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
Market-leading pension.
Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin , so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money We re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, Making You Happier About Money. This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com
It s important to note that there may be occasions where it s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.
Now the legal bit Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.