Economics jobs in United Kingdom

At Moneybox, our mission is to give everyone the means to get more out of life. We’re guided by our belief that wealth isn’t about the money, it’s about the means to more – more freedom, opportunities, possibilities, and peace of mind. Moneybox is an award-winning wealth management platform, helping over one and a half million people build wealth throughout their lives, whether they’re saving and investing, buying their first home, or planning for retirement.

As Head of Change within the Change & Platform Operations department, you will be responsible for our team of high-performing Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Change specialists. This is a leadership position focused on developing and empowering the team to support our Product and Engineering roadmap, managing our business controls, and strategically partnering with the Senior Leadership Team to support organisational change, transformation, and special projects.

You will champion best practices and uplift the existing team, develop processes that enhance cross-functional collaboration, create high-quality business architecture, and lead projects. The wider department reports into the Chief Platform Officer and also includes the Product Technical team that manage regulatory change, complex technical guidance and regulatory returns, and oversight of complex processes.

• Lead a team of 10, composed of two project managers, two business change analysts, one business controls analyst, and five BAs.
• Own and enhance Change processes and ways of working, optimising for stakeholder assessments of value, high-quality business architecture, and team productivity.
• Mentor and develop the entire team, fostering a culture of excellence and providing clear development pathways for professional growth.
• Solve key business problems, individually or leveraging the team, that improve cross-functional productivity and efficiency, uplift capabilities, and aid business maturity.
• Lead complex cross-functional programmes, migrations, and projects.
• Support the Change & Platform Operations Director with managing our portfolio of product and engineering projects and enhancing the prioritisation, planning, and reporting processes.
• Build deep knowledge of our business systems and processes, enhancing how the BAs provide deep subject matter expertise to support the business.
• Manage and improve our business control environment, mitigating risks and ensuring 100% compliance across our Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, and wider control responsibilities.
• Support wider teams and the Senior Leadership Team, individually and leveraging your team, with ad-hoc project initiatives and resource gaps where required.

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious startup
• Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals
• Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact
• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture
• Mission + Functional team socials every 8 weeks
• Company shares
• Company pension scheme
• Hybrid working environment
• Home office furniture allowance
• Personal Annual Learning and Development budget
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellhub subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
• Enhanced parental pay & leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.

At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential.

We have a hybrid policy that includes 2 days from our London office and 3 from home. If the role states it is either hybrid or remote candidates must be based within the UK.

At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Please note if offered a position, the offer is conditional and subject to the receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks which we will conduct such as criminal record and adverse credit history checks. As a regulated financial business, an adverse financial history could impact your suitability for the role. If you are aware of anything that could affect your suitability for the role, please let us know in advance. By sending us your application you acknowledge and agree to Moneybox using your personal data as described below.

We collect applicants’ personal data to manage our recruitment related activities. Consequently, we may use your personal data to evaluate your application, to select and shortlist applicants, to set up and conduct interviews and tests, to evaluate and assess the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment process generally.We do not share your personal data with unauthorised third parties. However, we may, if necessary, share your personal data to carefully selected third parties acting on our behalf. This may include transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided us with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America.

If you are unsuccessful in your application, we may keep your details on file so that we can tell you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest to you when they arise in the future. If you would like to reach us then please email:talent@moneybox.com. If you would rather we did not keep your details on file, you can contact us at:DPO@moneyboxapp.com

Capital at risk. All investing should be for the longer term. The value of your investments can go up and down, and you may get back less than you invest. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and may be subject to change in the future.

A 25% government penalty applies if you withdraw money from a Lifetime ISA for any reason other than buying your first home (up to £450,000) or for retirement, and you may get back less than you paid into your Lifetime ISA.

Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.

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