Job Description
Career Family, Level & Title: IT Strategy & Development, Universal, Developer
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £36k-£40k DOE + private medical insurance, 38 days' annual leave, 12 x salary life assurance, Bonus, 10% pension employer contribution (matching a further 2%) and lots, lots more!
Have you got skills using VBA, Excel or SQL? We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Tool Developer to join our Tool Development Team within our Products & Proposition Department.
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our colleagues have ever worked.
We are the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business with c.13 million customers and c.£310 billion of assets under administration. As a market leader and FTSE 100 organisation, we understand that our scale and expertise means that we have a key role to play for our customers, colleagues and our communities to help as many people as possible secure a life of possibilities. We are tackling key environmental and social issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050 - but we're not done yet.
We've seen huge growth and change, and this means there is enormous opportunity for our 8,000 colleagues to grow alongside us.
Flexible working
You can expect to work in a hybrid manner with time spent working in the office and at home. We believe that work/life balance offers benefits for customers as well as ensuring that you can balance a successful career with your life outside of work. We will discuss flexibility, what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and safe at work, and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Everyone is valued at Phoenix regardless of age, gender identity, neurodiversity, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic background or anything else. Whether it's joining one of our internal employee networks, being an ally, taking positive action or simply being there to listen, everyone at Phoenix is valued and respected.
If you need any help or adjustments to the recruitment process due to health, disability or anything else, please let us know so we can help you to be the best version of yourself.
The role
In this role, you are responsible for the building and maintenance of tools to defined specifications and quality. This includes ensuring effective testing of your own work as well as peer checking of others, to ensure the high quality of work leaving the team. Working with end-users as well as other teams in Products & Proposition, you will be encouraged to own defined work items and drive them through to a satisfactory completion
What are we looking for?
You have excellent VBA, Excel and SQL skills which can be used in the build of tools to support Alpha calculations & statements as well as the maintenance of existing tools to support change projects/rate changes. You'll adhere to our EUC standards in the design of new complex tools/material changes to existing tools.
You'll have good communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts in well-structured messages that can be understood by the end customer, providing updates at all stages of the process to deliver services in a timely manner to meet expectations.
You will be capable of making effective decisions under pressure whilst maintaining a high level of output and quality, aligning to our risk control framework and making suggestions for improvements were deemed appropriate to mitigate risks. Ideally, you'll have a good understanding of the Software development lifecycle & Life and Pensions experience or experience in a financial services environment.
Essential:
- Strong VBA, Excel and SQL Skills
- Financial Services experience
Desirable:
- Experience using Python
Why choose us?
Bring your 'whole self', skills and dedication to the Phoenix Group and we'll recognise your effort, support your development and help to drive your ambition. We'll ensure you're rewarded for your contribution with a competitive package that includes an attractive pension, annual bonus potential, private medical insurance, generous holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity and adoption leave and a range of other financial services and lifestyle flexible benefits.
Sound good? If you are ready to help us make Phoenix the best place you've ever worked, we'd love to hear from you.
Many of our colleagues will be taking a well-earned break over the festive period. We're still advertising our open roles and as part of our commitment to providing the best candidate experience, we wanted to let you know that there may be a delay in responding to applications received between the 19th December and 2nd January. Please bear with us and we'll be in touch as soon as we can.