Head of Technical

About the role

Weve created a brand new role here at Verve and are embarking on a hunt to find the perfect person for it. If you love all things finance are a bit of a technical nerd and are confident presenting and writing on complex matters... then read on!

Across Verve we cover the full range of adviser support services and therefore have Subject Matter Experts across all topics; pensions regulation tax trusts you name it someone in the team knows it!Until now our SMEs have all contributed towards our events webinars blogs and Dextera content which has been brilliant.However as we grow and as their day jobs get increasingly busy we have decided to carve out a specific role that is focused on all things technical.

The person who gets this role will still have the SMEs in the business to lean on (were not expecting you to know absolutely everything about everything!) but will take ownership of creating and delivering technical expertise to support our clients and the wider advice community.

The role includes:

• Creating content for and delivering training events.These could be virtual or in person
• Creating blogs whitepapers Bulletins and other technical content
• Delivering internal training to ensure the latest technical knowledge across the Verve team
• Updating collateral in the Resource Hub and Training Library in Dextera
• Delivering updates and hot topics to our partners across the UK
• Helping with answering technical queries that come into Verve from clients (alongside the TechnicalTeam)

About you

For this particular role a strong depth of knowledge of finance and regulation is crucial along with a demonstrable ability to keep on top of the ongoing changes we know and love. Therefore we request applicants have:

• Sound technical knowledge likely to have been obtained via experience qualifications or a mixture of the two
• Impeccable writing skills with an ability to bring complex (or even dry!) subject matters to life
• This role will involve travel to present at events seminars and partners around the UK and so the flexibility to travel when needed and a driving licence are essential. The role can therefore be remote or based from our Darlington office.

Additional desirable attributes are:

• Proven experience of creating and delivering training content
• Lively engaging attitude and a willingness to dive into new things
• Above all we need someone to help build out a new role from the ground up making it an integral part to supporting our clients our team and the wider industry. Basically innovation and adaptability need to be your middle names!

About us

Verve offers a range of services to financial planners and ultimately works towards two key aims; to help support good quality financial advice firms to grow and develop and to attract new people into financial services and help train them up for the benefit of the future of the profession.

Across all departments we approach financial services with a innovative and positive outlook; our focus is on relentlessly improving and never settling for just doing what has always been done. Were passionate that more people can and should benefit from advice and its our mission to make it more accessible for them.

We offer a range of benefits to permanent employees to ensure our team feels supported and motivated. We reward loyalty and offer enhanced benefits to reward employees who choose to grow their career with us but as standard these include

Standard benefits (Based on a fulltime position)

• 21 days basic holiday allowance (increasing 1 day per year for each years service to a max of 26 days); plus bank holidays; plus Christmas closedown and your birthday off if it falls on a weekday.
• Personal development budget (for exams training anything to help you excel!)
  
• Personalised salary structure to reflect your own effort and contribution
• Hybrid or fully remote options available depending on location and experience.
• Access to lifestyle benefits such as meditation app high street discount & rewards app and financial wellbeing platform.
• Death in service cover
• Upon completion of a qualifying period we offer an EMI share scheme allowing you tobenefit both from declared dividends and long term performance returns.
• At the same time you will become eligible for our enhanced parental leave benefits.

Anything else

• Weve never been a fan of a dress code. If youre hybrid and coming into the office dress appropriately for a workplace environment but have the flexibility for that to be whatever you feel comfortable in.
• Extensive health and wellbeing programme and initiatives including desk massages team hikes and yoga / fitness sessions.
• Being part of a company with a higher purpose and strong values.
• Office snacks and refreshments
  
• Open plan living office environment including rocking (or sometimes dubious) playlists beer/wine fridge breakout lounge breakfast club ping pong table.
• 2 official annual company parties plus ad hoc team nights out and monthly enrichment sessions
• Office dogs welcome!