Finance Application Developer

• Reference: VN-13259
• Role Type: Permanent
• Location: Hove
• Salary: Competitive
• Closing Date: 03/06/2019

Company Info

• We take pride in being there for our customers. We help them deal with whatever life has in store and support them in achieving financial security; and that’s thanks to the talented and dedicated people who work with us. For us, ‘social responsibility’ is not just a buzzword. It defines us and runs through everything we do for our customers and as an employer. And working with us, you’ll get a competitive reward package and have the flexibility and autonomy to deliver your personal, business and career goals.

Department Info

• Group Finance IT  supports our businesses across the UK. Delivering essential services and activities that have a real impact on our business and our customers lives, we enable our people to do what they do best, contributing to delivering a great customer service, profitability and strategic growth.

  We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Job Duties

• Perform the anlaysis of requirements, development and testing of systems or the data held within them. conducting peer reviews; deliver unit and QA testing, and support the business in User Acceptance Testing and go live issues
• Produce deliverables that follow the development standards and principles on time
• Work with and assist the other teams within the department and stakeholder teams including the provision of technical support
• Adhere to the end to end change process, controls and IT security policies and procedures; raising appropriate paperwork in a timely manner. work effectively with colleagues during the development lifecycle
• Maintain up to date knowledge of systems and produce high quality documentation both to demonstrate the solution and also allow the team to support systems efficiently in production.
• Ensure developments are compliant including compliance with our commitment to treating customers fairly

Experience

• ITIL foundation desireable
• Good understanding of finance reconciliation and payment processes
• General understanding of insurance and finance products
• Conversant with IBM OS/2 mainframe environment, including knowledge of SAR addon (SYSOUT architeval and retrieval system) and the SDSF tool (spool display and search facility)
• Functional administrator level knowledge of any of the following systems: Fiserv Accurate, NXG, Oracle EBS, Experienc EPG
• Good knowledge of MS Excel and access is required.; VBA programming an advantage
• Good knowledge of software development lifecycle, agile and waterfall development, project lifecycle.
• In developing and supporting changes and fixes on payment and banking applications
• System analysis; verficiation of functional design documents and preparation of technical design documentation
• Requirement experience of working with databases; including writing sql querieis to retrieve edata
• Exposure to DB2 databases an advantage
• Prior exposure to programming in a procedural langauage at intermediate level.

Benefits

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days’ holiday, private medical insurance, discretionary performance related bonuses, paid overtime, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.