Job Title: Operation Administrator – Client Cash

Location: Leeds

Salary: £28,300

Contract Type: 6 Month Fixed-Term

Who we are:

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We oAer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose of the role:

We are recruiting for an Operations Administrator to join our Operations team. This Operations Administrator role is responsible for the effective processing of tasks within the Operations department, this includes but not exhaustive to Cash, Settlements, Customer Accounts, Pensions, Transfers, Reconciliations and Corporate Actions. Ensuring accurate adherence to the departments policies, procedures and regulatory responsibilities. This role will also include building good relationships with both internal departments and external stakeholders. Responsibilities will include providing the highest quality service to our customers and answering queries from the Customer Services department and dealing with email/phone queries from customers that relate to Operational processes.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Timely processing of tasks and queries, with a high degree of accuracy. Provide outstanding customer service to meet the requirements of both internal and external customers.
• Make customer contact via appropriate mediums to enable straight through processing, where appropriate.
• Adherence to the regulations that apply to the area that you are working in. Escalate identified risks and unresolved issues, providing accurate information to support the investigation.
• Ensure corrective or preventative actions are treated with priority.
• Continually and appropriately challenge policy, processes and procedures, recommending improvements to increase efficiency and improve quality.
• Be part of the departmental telephone query team to support all queries and requests from internal customers.
• Work as part of a team, supporting colleagues and promoting a positive work environment & team spirit.
• Confident in delivering an efficient, consistent and high-quality service to our customers.
• Flexibility to move between tasks as business needs require.
• Maintain the organisation’s first line of defence by ensuring adherence to business processes and procedures that are designed to meet the regulatory standards set out in the relevant FCA rules and guidance.
• Make informed risk decisions and effectively and credibly debate and challenge management recommendations within your role in line with the approved Risk Management Framework.
• Support the team with ensuring departmental procedures are up to date.
• Use the Training & Competence scheme to maintain the appropriate knowledge, skills and expertise to carry out your role.
• Provide Management Information, as and when required.
• Provide support as needed, in order to assist in delivering team objectives.

Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Plan – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – Provided by Bupa
• 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays
• Staff Discounts on our investment products
• Personal & Well-being Fund – Supporting your physical and mental wellness
• Retail Discounts – Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
• Voluntary Flexible Benefits – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle

Please Note: We will do our utmost effort to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive