Simply Business
hackajob is collaborating with Simply Business to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Our story - continued commitment to doing the right thing 2005 seems like a long time ago. Simply Business - a small company with a big idea. To transform the way that other small businesses could get the insurance that they need. To reduce time, hassle and jargon wherever possible while introducing the simplicity, choice and value that small businesses are entitled to. To protect them from harm. To keep their livelihoods safe. And to do all this with the promise of positive service. Delivered by happy people, working flexibly, learning constantly. With a restlessly innovative spirit. Within a business committed to doing the right thing. All of the time. As we've grown, we've tried hard to keep true to this. To ourselves, to our 800 strong team and to the 3.5m customers that we've served so far. And as we move forward, as we enter a big new market, as we grow responsibly, as we improve our products, as we offer our customers more of what they need, of what they deserve, we'll hold onto the focus of that small company with the big idea. Protecting and serving businesses across the UK and the US. From barbers to bakers, consultants to cleaners, they are the backbone of the economy. And we'll continue to stand by them. Bit by bit helping their dreams grow, just like ours. Why do we need this role? As a Staff Data Scientist you will be part of a team that is bringing AI and Data Science into the forefront of SB. We are looking to unify our technical vision and are looking for an experienced, technical but pragmatic Staff Data Scientist to enable our wider team to deliver value, quickly. In this role, you will: Work closely with cross-functional development teams to build, test and maximise the value of a suite of models ranging use cases from LLM's to propensity, classification and regression models Contribute to End to end development and deployment of ML and AI models Prove and deliver real value Have the opportunity to work with stakeholders in a high-pace, agile environment which encourages autonomy and growth. Try and incredibly broad range of DS/AI techniques in a commercial environment Responsibilities include: Researching, advising, building, deploying and testing models from day one Work as a bridge between the data science and MLOps departments to continue bring understanding and best practice deployment techniques into the Data Science team Hands on big project ownership Everyday modelling and Data Science projects with a large, event based data set Opportunity to help to codevelop our AI strategy and continued leverage of GenAI for real value What are we looking for: 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist/ML Engineer, working on classic ML and Data Science problems as well as Generative AI Created multiple Data Science Products Proven aptitude for working with experimenting tools - MLflow/DBX (A/B tests) Proven deployment experience - MUST BE REALTIME Extensive experience of Databricks/AWS/GCP for deployment Strong Python experience The Benefits There's all the serious (but important) stuff we call 'core benefits" and a salary that reflects your experience, our pay policy and the market we're in from your first day is a global approach. However, some of our "core benefits" differ from the UK to the US to keep us competitive. These range from life cover, a cash plan and a stakeholder pension in the UK to medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage, short and long term disability, life insurance coverage and participation in 401(k) plan with a 3% employer match in the US. The Fun stuff! We are really proud of our culture at SB and that reflects in how our benefits roll. Flexible benefits and working, plenty of training to help you develop your career and loads of clubs to get involved in from trivia nights, guest speakers, and charity drives keep us all well connected. And, the great thing is being remote hasn't stopped us one bit.
hackajob is collaborating with Simply Business to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Our story - continued commitment to doing the right thing 2005 seems like a long time ago. Simply Business - a small company with a big idea. To transform the way that other small businesses could get the insurance that they need. To reduce time, hassle and jargon wherever possible while introducing the simplicity, choice and value that small businesses are entitled to. To protect them from harm. To keep their livelihoods safe. And to do all this with the promise of positive service. Delivered by happy people, working flexibly, learning constantly. With a restlessly innovative spirit. Within a business committed to doing the right thing. All of the time. As we've grown, we've tried hard to keep true to this. To ourselves, to our 800 strong team and to the 3.5m customers that we've served so far. And as we move forward, as we enter a big new market, as we grow responsibly, as we improve our products, as we offer our customers more of what they need, of what they deserve, we'll hold onto the focus of that small company with the big idea. Protecting and serving businesses across the UK and the US. From barbers to bakers, consultants to cleaners, they are the backbone of the economy. And we'll continue to stand by them. Bit by bit helping their dreams grow, just like ours. Why do we need this role? As a Staff Data Scientist you will be part of a team that is bringing AI and Data Science into the forefront of SB. We are looking to unify our technical vision and are looking for an experienced, technical but pragmatic Staff Data Scientist to enable our wider team to deliver value, quickly. In this role, you will: Work closely with cross-functional development teams to build, test and maximise the value of a suite of models ranging use cases from LLM's to propensity, classification and regression models Contribute to End to end development and deployment of ML and AI models Prove and deliver real value Have the opportunity to work with stakeholders in a high-pace, agile environment which encourages autonomy and growth. Try and incredibly broad range of DS/AI techniques in a commercial environment Responsibilities include: Researching, advising, building, deploying and testing models from day one Work as a bridge between the data science and MLOps departments to continue bring understanding and best practice deployment techniques into the Data Science team Hands on big project ownership Everyday modelling and Data Science projects with a large, event based data set Opportunity to help to codevelop our AI strategy and continued leverage of GenAI for real value What are we looking for: 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist/ML Engineer, working on classic ML and Data Science problems as well as Generative AI Created multiple Data Science Products Proven aptitude for working with experimenting tools - MLflow/DBX (A/B tests) Proven deployment experience - MUST BE REALTIME Extensive experience of Databricks/AWS/GCP for deployment Strong Python experience The Benefits There's all the serious (but important) stuff we call 'core benefits" and a salary that reflects your experience, our pay policy and the market we're in from your first day is a global approach. However, some of our "core benefits" differ from the UK to the US to keep us competitive. These range from life cover, a cash plan and a stakeholder pension in the UK to medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage, short and long term disability, life insurance coverage and participation in 401(k) plan with a 3% employer match in the US. The Fun stuff! We are really proud of our culture at SB and that reflects in how our benefits roll. Flexible benefits and working, plenty of training to help you develop your career and loads of clubs to get involved in from trivia nights, guest speakers, and charity drives keep us all well connected. And, the great thing is being remote hasn't stopped us one bit.
Simply Business
hackajob is collaborating with Simply Business to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Who Are We? We insure small businesses and enable big dreams - not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades. We're a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. Through our global social impact strategy, called 'The Big Dreams Project', we're working to help 10,000 small businesses start or grow by 2030. Why not check out our advert on YouTube: Simply Business TV advert 2024: 'Simply the Best'. Job Category Finance Position Type Permanent Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? Join our Finance team in London as our Financial Reporting Accountant, stepping into the role of a true financial integrity champion. You will take ownership of our month-end process and establish a robust control environment to support our ongoing commercial growth, all while acting as a vital business partner providing critical insights directly to our Finance Director, CFO, Financial Controller, and our parent company, Travelers. What makes this role different from other traditional accounting positions is the unique balance between technical depth and transformative impact. Instead of just maintaining existing workflows, you will actively modernise our accounting systems to eliminate operational complexity, deepen your exposure across diverse frameworks like IFRS and US GAAP, and completely own critical external relationships with regulators, tax advisors, and auditors. As our Financial Reporting Accountant, you'll: Master the month-end close: Calculate and post monthly journals while preparing accurate, fully supported balance sheet reconciliations across accruals, debtors, and tax. Deliver management insights: Prepare monthly management accounts and investigate variances to provide budget holders and wider teams with clear financial clarity. Manage regulatory compliance: Drive the delivery of multi-framework financial reporting across complex regulatory landscapes, completing submissions for HMRC, the FCA, ONS, quarter-end VAT, and annual PSA returns. Provide technical guidance: Offer clear IFRS advice to the broader finance team and prepare robust accounting judgement papers on evolving disclosure requirements. Strengthen audit and controls: Support internal and external audits, embed rigorous internal financial controls, and ensure compliance with SOX reporting standards. Act as a systems superuser: Utilise SAP ByDesign and Concur platforms for everyday journal postings, while leveraging Onestream for top-tier financial reporting. We're looking for someone who is: A credentialed professional: ACA or ACCA/CIMA finalist or fully qualified with a comprehensive understanding of core financial accounting principles. A technical framework expert: Equipped with practical knowledge of IFRS standards, exposure to US GAAP to support international reporting, and the ability to draft formal accounting judgement papers. An analytical problem-solver: Possessing a sharp numeric mindset with a proven history of navigating complex technical issues under tight deadlines. Control and process-focused: Capable of early detection of control weaknesses and confident in implementing modern process improvements to simplify workflows. An articulate communicator: Able to present clear, data-driven financial insights confidently to senior leadership and external institutional partners. Advanced with data and tools: Highly proficient with enterprise accounting software (such as SAP ByDesign and Concur) and Microsoft Office tools, specifically advanced Excel capabilities like complex formulae, lookups, and pivot tables. We know it's tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don't have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.) We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work. By driving our financial integrity and modernising our workflows, you will ensure our operations remain robust and scalable, ultimately enabling us to power big dreams for small businesses. Apply today. What are the benefits of working at Simply Business: we offer a great work-life balance where workloads are manageable and everyone has the flexibility to work hybrid on top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want - with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you're the secondary caregiver our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And our long-serving employees get a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition is a core benefit. Plus a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses we offer a competitive salary based on your experience and the current market. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance access to tools to support your personal development on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling we match what you put into your pension up to five per cent . And pass on a tax-free sum that's four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy , with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service) our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today. Employment Practices Simply Business is committed to providing equality and opportunities for all employees and candidates considering a career with us. We offer a workplace where colleagues are treated with respect and dignity. We don't (and won't) discriminate either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, colour, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or relationship status at any stage of the hiring process or during the course of your employment.
hackajob is collaborating with Simply Business to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Who Are We? We insure small businesses and enable big dreams - not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades. We're a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. Through our global social impact strategy, called 'The Big Dreams Project', we're working to help 10,000 small businesses start or grow by 2030. Why not check out our advert on YouTube: Simply Business TV advert 2024: 'Simply the Best'. Job Category Finance Position Type Permanent Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? Join our Finance team in London as our Financial Reporting Accountant, stepping into the role of a true financial integrity champion. You will take ownership of our month-end process and establish a robust control environment to support our ongoing commercial growth, all while acting as a vital business partner providing critical insights directly to our Finance Director, CFO, Financial Controller, and our parent company, Travelers. What makes this role different from other traditional accounting positions is the unique balance between technical depth and transformative impact. Instead of just maintaining existing workflows, you will actively modernise our accounting systems to eliminate operational complexity, deepen your exposure across diverse frameworks like IFRS and US GAAP, and completely own critical external relationships with regulators, tax advisors, and auditors. As our Financial Reporting Accountant, you'll: Master the month-end close: Calculate and post monthly journals while preparing accurate, fully supported balance sheet reconciliations across accruals, debtors, and tax. Deliver management insights: Prepare monthly management accounts and investigate variances to provide budget holders and wider teams with clear financial clarity. Manage regulatory compliance: Drive the delivery of multi-framework financial reporting across complex regulatory landscapes, completing submissions for HMRC, the FCA, ONS, quarter-end VAT, and annual PSA returns. Provide technical guidance: Offer clear IFRS advice to the broader finance team and prepare robust accounting judgement papers on evolving disclosure requirements. Strengthen audit and controls: Support internal and external audits, embed rigorous internal financial controls, and ensure compliance with SOX reporting standards. Act as a systems superuser: Utilise SAP ByDesign and Concur platforms for everyday journal postings, while leveraging Onestream for top-tier financial reporting. We're looking for someone who is: A credentialed professional: ACA or ACCA/CIMA finalist or fully qualified with a comprehensive understanding of core financial accounting principles. A technical framework expert: Equipped with practical knowledge of IFRS standards, exposure to US GAAP to support international reporting, and the ability to draft formal accounting judgement papers. An analytical problem-solver: Possessing a sharp numeric mindset with a proven history of navigating complex technical issues under tight deadlines. Control and process-focused: Capable of early detection of control weaknesses and confident in implementing modern process improvements to simplify workflows. An articulate communicator: Able to present clear, data-driven financial insights confidently to senior leadership and external institutional partners. Advanced with data and tools: Highly proficient with enterprise accounting software (such as SAP ByDesign and Concur) and Microsoft Office tools, specifically advanced Excel capabilities like complex formulae, lookups, and pivot tables. We know it's tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don't have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.) We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work. By driving our financial integrity and modernising our workflows, you will ensure our operations remain robust and scalable, ultimately enabling us to power big dreams for small businesses. Apply today. What are the benefits of working at Simply Business: we offer a great work-life balance where workloads are manageable and everyone has the flexibility to work hybrid on top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want - with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you're the secondary caregiver our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And our long-serving employees get a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition is a core benefit. Plus a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses we offer a competitive salary based on your experience and the current market. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance access to tools to support your personal development on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling we match what you put into your pension up to five per cent . And pass on a tax-free sum that's four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy , with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service) our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today. Employment Practices Simply Business is committed to providing equality and opportunities for all employees and candidates considering a career with us. We offer a workplace where colleagues are treated with respect and dignity. We don't (and won't) discriminate either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, colour, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or relationship status at any stage of the hiring process or during the course of your employment.
