Savings Operations Consultant in Skipton

We’re recruiting for the latest member of our Savings Operations Team for our Money Business. If you enjoy working in a busy and fast-paced environment, are able to organise and manage multiple workloads, then this may be a great opportunity for you!

You’ll gain knowledge and experience in the Financial Service Sector including our Savings products and services, continuous learning, development and support in progressing your career. Not just another building society. Not just another job. We’re the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we’re a mutual organisation. We don’t have shareholders; we’re owned by our members.

Our colleagues say Skipton’s a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do. Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we’ll help you take the next step towards a better future.

You will be joining our Money Operations Savings Team which is split into the different parts of a Savings Account Journey, from Onboarding right through to closure. We deal with a range of transactions within a service timeframe proving excellent Customer Outcomes across all Customer Journeys.

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.

We have a range of other benefits available to you including:

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• A commitment to training and development
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
• We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership

We’re looking for individuals to assist with the administration of our customer data for our savings accounts, it’ll involve working closely with other members of the team, the wider department and individually when dealing with specific customer requests.

You’ll also:

• Complete administration tasks from the workflows within Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)
• Complete occasional outbound calls to customers
• Liaise over the phone with internal colleagues from our contact centre, branches and the wider society when required
• Be responsible for submitting timely and accurate daily statistics and work volumes
• Consistently maintain a high quality of work and ensure no negative poor customer outcomes are caused
• Identify any errors or issues from checks to continually review the processes to ensure a first-class service to our customers
• Stay up to date with regulation requirements, data protection, financial crime, treating customers fairly and the implementation of the Disaster Recovery Plan

It’s important you have great organisation and prioritisation skills in order to deal with the workflow queues effectively and efficiently, you’ll need to be able to meet deadlines and keep within agreed timescales.

You’ll also have:

• Ability to use initiative to make key decisions
• Experience in following procedures and policies
• Effective listening and communication skills – both written and verbal
• Willingness to learn and manage your own development
• Ability to communicate with various stakeholders at all levels