Funding Circle UK

Vice President

• Reporting to our CTO, the VP Data leads an enterprise-wide mandate shaping how data powers our organisation.
• Directing a team of specialists across Data Engineering, Data Platform, and Data Product Management.
• Define and deliver the next phase of our data modernisation, ensuring the data foundations are in place to support our AI-native ambitions and leading our data transformation project.
• Driving business value through leading our data transformation and implementing snowflake to power business-wide scaling.
• Implement Funding Circle’s group-wide Data Strategy ensuring alignment with the broader Group Strategy and Technology Strategy.
• Establish reliable data standards and working methodologies that guarantee long-term data integrity.
• Build and maintain strong relationships at Senior and Executive levels across Funding Circle to understand and shape their planning to take full advantage of our data.

VP, Data

People Operations

• Coach and scale the People Ops team, fostering a high-performance culture focused on continuous improvement
• Lay the foundations for future AI platforms. You will identify opportunities to streamline the employee lifecycle, automate data reporting, and use AI tools to solve real business challenges
• Oversee the operational delivery of annual performance and reward cycles, benefits renewals, and vendor management
• Supervise the administration of employee share plans and ensure flawless execution of regulatory processes, including Right to Work checks, contractor management, and leave types

People Operations Manager – 12 mth FTC

Operations

• Managing daily payment runs across our bespoke internal systems, handling both inbound and outbound transactions (Direct Debits, Open banking, Card payments, Faster payments, and bank transfers).
• Spotting unusual payment patterns and irregular account behaviour— applying an immediate solution while working with our tech teams on permanent system fixes.
• Mastering the end-to-end flow of money across our various products (including Term Loans and FlexiPay), knowing exactly how to handle and route payment exceptions.
• Carrying out daily operational checks and authorising internal and external transactions correctly, ensuring our data aligns perfectly to prevent any breaks between internal ledgers and bank accounts.
• Working closely with the AML and Financial Crime teams —supplying the AML team with the transaction data they need for daily checks, and ensuring preventative measures are actioned at the request of the Fraud team.
• Keeping our processes fully compliant with regulatory standards, focusing on FCA guidelines and CASS (Client Money) rules.
• Liaising with teams across the business, including Capital Market Operations, Collections, and Customer Success.
• Answering payment queries from internal colleagues and external customers clearly and efficiently.

Payments Operations Analyst

Data Analyst

• The primary steward of the modelled datasets the Credit Risk team relies on daily: maintaining field logic, monitoring data quality, and ensuring the data as well as the dictionary remains accurate and fit for purpose.
• Creating new tables and pipelines as the team’s analytical needs evolve, working to a high standard of code quality and documentation.
• Proactively identify anomalies, breaks, and drift in the datamart, and investigate root causes before they affect downstream users.
• Be the go-to person for data questions from analysts and model validators, and will maintain clear documentation so others can self-serve confidently.
• Working closely with the central Data to align on tooling, infrastructure, and best practice, and promote those to the Credit Risk Team.

Analyst

• Own the end-to-end valuation modelling for our Credit Card and FlexiPay products, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insight that drives strategic decisions.
• Build and maintain forward-looking models — including lifetime value, unit economics, and loss forecasting — that underpin product pricing, provisioning, and portfolio strategy.
• Partner closely with Credit Risk, Finance, and Product teams to ensure our valuations reflect the latest performance data and macroeconomic assumptions.
• Play a key role in month-end and quarter-end close processes, owning commentary and variance analysis for senior stakeholders and the Board.

Senior Valuations Analyst

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Engage, nurture, and close a high-quality pipeline of SME prospects, utilizing data-driven lists provided directly to you, unlocking revenue through outbound execution and consultative selling - with no cold business development required!
• Manage the entire commercial lifecycle end-to-end, independently understanding business goals and structuring financial solutions that set our borrowers up to win
• Build and sustain long-term relationships with business owners, staying close to them throughout their lifecycle, to become their go-to trusted funding partner, driving a compounding pipeline of repeat funding
• Pitch the Funding Circle proposition compellingly against alternative lending options directly to business owners
• Consistently hit and exceed your monthly targets, driving company growth whilst directly impacting the UK economy
• Mentor junior colleagues, contributing to lifting performance across the team and to championing our collaborative sales culture

Senior Sales Specialist – Commercial Finance

Full-stack Engineer

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Accounts & Card team.
• Responsible for leading technical delivery and maintaining high-performance standards for card-related products.
• Work closely with talented colleagues to lead technical ideation sessions, solve complex problems spanning beyond the team, and drive data-driven decisions.
• You love to build new things but also don’t shy away from digging into a legacy codebase.

Senior Engineer

Senior Business Finance Specialist

• You take accountability for high-level solution design, standards, engineering performance, and technology decisions within your Group.
• You will have sound commercial acumen and a solid understanding of how tech drives the top and bottom line. You understand and can articulate how our platform drives customer and commercial outcomes.
• You proactively identify and leverage the latest Generative AI tools and techniques to drive innovation and transform our engineering processes, helping the organisation become fully "AI Native."
• You understand collaboration with customer facing product teams is vital for a successful platform. Building an informed roadmap and shaping the technical direction to deliver on it. You translate this into a target system and data architecture with clear milestones to iterate towards it.
• You are able to perform deep-dives and troubleshoot issues in a hands-on capacity, but you seek to enable the teams rather than becoming a dependency for future issues.
• You have excellent stakeholder-management skills and can present technology solutions, risks and tradeoffs to any audience across Funding Circle, demonstrating the ability to influence without requiring reporting authority to do so.
• You represent Funding Circle externally at events, leveraging your network to share industry trends and insight, as well as attracting talent to Funding Circle.

Staff Software Engineer

Sales

• Motivate and performance-manage your team to achieve individual and team targets
• Set short, medium, and long-term goals with your reports and support them in their development toward them
• Lead the implementation of continuous improvement to drive the team forward
• Provide team members with regular feedback by holding 1:1s, KPI reviews, and call shadowing sessions
• Champion best practice initiatives and ensure internal controls and policies are adhered to.
• Manage stakeholders and regularly report/present on team performance
• Coach direct reports to help them hit targets and develop their sales skills
• Be a leader and display leadership qualities consistent with Funding Circle value

Sales Team Manager

Engineering Manager

• Leading and developing two engineering teams — Cloud Platform (cloud infrastructure, observability, SRE, incident response) and Enterprise Services (IT support, IAM, Okta, Slack and core SaaS) — setting technical direction, hiring and performance standards across both.
• Delivering the reliability, performance and cost-efficiency of the cloud platform underpinning production services, including SLOs, on-call and incident response practices, and post-incident learning, in line with the broader infrastructure strategy.
• Executing the roadmap for enterprise services and identity, treating internal IT as an engineering discipline — automation-first, self-service where possible, and measured on employee productivity and security outcomes.
• Tracking and reporting meaningful operational metrics — availability, MTTR, change failure rate, identity hygiene, endpoint and SaaS posture, support responsiveness — and using them to drive continuous improvement within the function.
• Acting as a senior operational escalation point for major incidents across both production and corporate environments, leading technical response and keeping the VP and wider stakeholders informed.

Platform & Workplace Engineering Director

Associate

• Lead the transaction execution process for various capital markets transactions, including securitisations (e.g., SBOLT), credit facilities, and loan sales.
• Assist in building and maintaining strong relationships with a diverse range of institutional investors (e.g. banks, asset managers, hedge funds).
• Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to analyse portfolio performance, forecast cash flows, assess potential deal structures, and evaluate the impact on funding costs.
• Prepare regular performance reports for internal and external stakeholders, tracking key metrics, analysing trends.
• Monitor capital markets trends, competitor activity, and regulatory developments to identify opportunities and risks.
• Build a strong internal network and work closely with internal teams to ensure alignment on capital markets initiatives.
• Support and lead projects and analysis that align with broader lending objectives.

Associate, Capital Markets

Analytics Engineer

• Owns the data modelling strategy, sets standards for data modelling, transformations, and governance.
• Leads the design and implementation of new features, such as the creation of a new star schema and other best practices to optimise data usability.
• Sets best practices and standards on how we use SQL & dbt / Python / Pyspark and/or other languages to solve business problems.
• Becomes an expert in the business subject area the team are working on, holding expertise on both the business requirements as well as the technical implementation.
• Delivers high quality code, provides technical mentorship, and ensures the team is building scalable, maintainable data models.
• Co-owns the backlog with the Engineering Manager and helps to break down technical requirements.

Senior Analytics Engineer – Tech Lead

• Dealing with inbound enquiries, via telephone or email answering borrower's questions/queries.
• Requesting information from borrowers either by email or telephone.
• Update the Salesforce CRM system with all relevant information so that loan applications can move through our funnel from application to offer.
• Develop strong working relationships with 3rd party suppliers and FC internal departments.
• Support the Direct business reporting by keeping information accurate and updated.
• Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day

Customer Operations Executive

Manager

• You'll be a key member of our Growth team, responsible for helping more small businesses access Funding Circle's products.
• Own the cross-sell strategy to Funding Circle’s existing customer base.
• Drive the activation stage of the funnel across both FlexiPay and our Credit Card.
• Collaborate with the Marketing, Sales, Product and Technology teams to drive commercial growth.
• Responsible for enabling growth from Funding Circle’s existing customer base by developing cross-sell strategies and driving product adoption.
• Analyse the performance of sales and marketing campaigns and use learnings to drive continuous improvements in our growth activity.
• Identify high-impact AI use cases and implement advanced prompting techniques.