Jobs at Allica Bank

Own Allica Bank’s accountants proposition from strategy through delivery. Lead a cross-functional squad, define the roadmap and access model, develop multi-client accounting workflows, and drive acquisition, retention, growth, and product depth among accountant-connected SMEs. Partner with Design, Research, Engineering, Data, Operations, Compliance, and Risk while using customer insight and commercial metrics to guide decisions and manage product and regulatory risks.

Develop and manage relationships with accounting firms across the South East to generate SME banking referrals. Responsibilities include consultative B2B sales, partner onboarding, client introductions, account funding and usage support, lending referrals, CRM portfolio management, regional travel, events, marketing initiatives, pipeline reporting, and collaboration with Relationship Managers and internal teams.

Supports the governance, documentation, review, and continuous improvement of operational processes and procedures. Updates procedures following business and product changes, coordinates approvals and version control, supports FAQ reviews, and contributes to policy and process digitalization. The role also assists with change implementation through document analysis, requirements workshops, process descriptions, workflow analysis, and stakeholder engagement across Operations.

Develop and manage relationships with accounting firms across the North West to generate SME referrals. Own partner and client journeys from introductions through onboarding, funding, and account usage. Conduct consultative B2B sales, regional meetings, events, and portfolio management. Coordinate with Relationship Managers and Marketing, maintain CRM records, deliver partner enablement materials, and support repeat introductions while adhering to bank policies and controls.

Lead end-to-end recruitment campaigns across Allica Bank, including sourcing, headhunting, screening, interviewing, stakeholder partnership, agency and channel management, and candidate onboarding support. Develop recruitment strategies, manage multiple campaigns, promote a strong candidate experience, and produce recruitment management information to improve hiring outcomes. The role requires extensive financial services recruitment experience and strong relationship-building, organizational, and planning skills.

Develop and manage relationships with regional accounting firms to generate SME banking referrals. Use a consultative B2B sales approach to onboard partners, introduce banking products, coordinate lending referrals, and own the client journey from introduction through funding. Maintain CRM records, run partner events, provide marketing materials, improve the Accountants Playbook, and collaborate with relationship managers and marketing teams.

Manage a portfolio of established SME customers, build trusted referral networks, acquire new business, and originate commercial lending opportunities. Responsibilities include understanding customer needs, structuring lending proposals, writing credit applications, reviewing financial accounts, managing credit risk, delivering local business objectives, and providing excellent service while collaborating across the bank.

Develop and manage relationships with accounting firms across the Midlands to generate SME banking referrals. Own partner onboarding, client introductions, funding, account usage, CRM pipeline management, events, and partnership materials. Work consultatively with accountants, coordinate lending referrals with Relationship Managers, collaborate with Marketing and other teams, and grow repeat introducer activity while maintaining compliance and strong customer outcomes.

Lead Platform Engineer responsible for architecting, building, and operating Allica Bank’s Azure cloud platform. The role focuses on Terraform-based infrastructure, secure CI/CD, networking, container platforms, resilience, observability, governance, compliance, incident response, cost optimization, and developer experience. The engineer leads a platform team while remaining hands-on, setting technical standards, managing production accountability, and improving platform adoption and reliability.

Supports the bank’s second-line compliance function by developing and implementing the Compliance Monitoring Programme, conducting controls testing and thematic reviews, preparing reports, supporting regulatory reporting, performing horizon scanning, and responding to compliance inquiries. The role provides regulatory guidance to stakeholders, contributes to conduct risk and customer outcome initiatives, collaborates on financial crime risks, and supports the Senior Compliance Manager and Head of Compliance/MLRO across committees and projects.

Own and evolve the Lending data product across GCP, BigQuery, and Looker. Lead analytics engineering standards, data modelling, validation, code reviews, sprint planning, and delivery. Partner with Lending, Risk, Product, and Engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data models and metrics. Mentor analysts and engineers, lead the Lending data workstream, and support self-service analytics and GenAI initiatives through improved metadata and data context.

Analyze products, processes, and business data to generate actionable insights. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, Looker dashboards, reports, data standards, libraries, and dictionaries. Partner with Finance, Operations, Credit Risk, Product, Engineering, and management to understand data needs, improve KPI reporting, and fulfill data requests. Translate technical findings into business language and help promote a data-driven culture.

Manage a portfolio of established SME customers, building trusted relationships and delivering lending, deposits, and other banking products. Drive acquisition through adviser networks, events, campaigns, lead follow-up, and occasional cold calling. Monitor portfolio risk, identify customer stress, maintain accurate CRM records, and support Senior Relationship Managers while developing commercial lending, sales, risk, and portfolio management capabilities.

Manages first-line technology risk and controls across the bank. Responsibilities include embedding the risk management framework, developing technology and vendor control frameworks, testing controls, supporting operational resilience and RCSA activities, contributing to operational risk ICAAP calculations, maintaining risk systems, and producing risk reporting. The role also provides technology risk partnership, vendor risk oversight, governance support, and constructive challenge across stakeholders.

Manage post-origination changes to SME and commercial lending facilities, assess borrower requests, monitor credit risk and early warning indicators, and oversee pre-watchlist accounts. The role involves customer and stakeholder management, credit decision support, documentation, governance, MI reporting, process development, and continuous improvement while balancing fair customer outcomes with protection of the bank’s position.

Lead operational excellence across banking operations by optimizing processes, procedures, customer journeys, governance, and knowledge management. Drive automation and AI adoption using tools such as Microsoft Copilot, coordinate operational readiness for change, maintain management information reporting, and ensure procedures align with risk, policy, and regulatory requirements. Facilitate workshops, manage stakeholders, measure improvement outcomes, and support scalable, customer-focused operating models.

Coordinate technically focused incidents, lead incident bridges, support triage, communicate with stakeholders, update Statuspage, Jira, and Confluence, and lead post-incident reviews. Create problem records, document root-cause analysis, track remediation actions, maintain incident-management KPIs and metrics, and assist with reporting. The role requires strong communication, ownership, technical curiosity, and an unrestricted right to work in the UK.

Develop, implement, monitor, and optimize statistical, machine learning, and credit risk models supporting automated lending decisions. Responsibilities include data preparation, feature engineering, model validation, policy rule analysis, scorecard monitoring, recalibration, root-cause investigations, process automation, documentation, and governance. The role partners with Credit Risk, Underwriting, Product, Data, Engineering, and Model Risk teams to deliver scalable, controlled decisioning solutions.

Manage a portfolio of SME customers, building trusted relationships and delivering customer service, lending, deposit acquisition, and other banking solutions. Identify new business through networks, campaigns, events, and outreach. Monitor portfolio risk, analyze customer data, maintain CRM records, and complete follow-up activities. Support Senior Relationship Managers while developing lending, sales, risk management, and portfolio management skills through coaching and training.

Manage a portfolio of SME customers, developing trusted relationships and identifying lending, deposit, and other banking opportunities. Deliver customer service, sales, portfolio management, and risk objectives while monitoring customer data for signs of financial stress. Build networks with SME advisers and local business communities, support campaigns and events, maintain CRM records, and collaborate with Senior Relationship Managers. The role includes structured development toward an SME Relationship Manager career.