Hi, we’re Griffin! We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products.
Our context
We're rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. All sorts of companies are now embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more.
The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products. They need to either partner directly with a (slow-moving, risk-averse) incumbent bank and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground.
At Griffin, we want to change this.
Our purpose
We want to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. So, we built a bank.
But not just any bank! Griffin is a technology platform and a bank: fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric, and purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.
Our culture
Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.
We also believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments. That’s why we’re transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation. We’re also remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible - because you're the expert on how and when you do your best work.
The Operations team
The Operations team at Griffin is the mindful engine room driving our success. We strive to bring joy to our customers, both internal and external, through systems that just work.
There are three core elements to operations at Griffin: banking operations; operational resilience; and customer support. Across all teams, we place significant emphasis on quality, compassion, ownership and curiosity. You will be empowered to lead our operational resilience capabilities, make meaningful decisions and be supported to make sure we collectively get those decisions right.
You’ll be working alongside a mix of specialists and generalists and reporting directly to our COO, Ed Carter. There are currently about fifteen of us in the team.
What will you be doing here?
As Griffin’s Operational Resilience Manager, you’ll be developing our existing processes and designing new operational resilience practices. Operational Resilience will grow as we mature.
You will spend your time:
- helping us deliver operational excellence and reliability through our human processes and our technology
- building out a world-class, effective operational resilience framework that enables us to excel
- ensuring we’re meeting or exceeding the relevant regulatory requirements
- developing and testing our business continuity and disaster recovery plans
- Own the third party register. Embedding operational resilience in our third-party relationship selections and ongoing management
- working closely with teams across the company to ensure that the mindset of resilience is embedded in their work
This role is covered by the Senior Manager & Certification Regime, the role holder must adhere to the FCA’s Fitness and Propriety Requirements.
Who are you
We’d love to hear from you if you meet most of these criteria:
- you have familiarity with the PRA and FCA’s regulations around operational resilience
- you have strong operational resilience capabilities
- you focus on outcomes, with processes as a means to that end
- you’ve worked with technology teams before and feel comfortable learning their language
- you have experience with vendor selection, especially where third parties contribute to delivering an important business service
- you’re curious, empathetic, and care deeply about clarity in communication
We’re a hybrid-remote, and most of your colleagues will not share an office with you on a day-to-day basis. This means you should also have:
- A high degree of comfort in adopting new software tools for document drafting, collaboration and communication.
- A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability (you can find out more here about how we write )
What can we offer you?
We are an early stage startup and we're working hard to expand our benefits package. We're planning to add to this list in the future.
- 25 days off a year + Christmas shutdown (we close in between Christmas and New Year) + bank holidays
- Flexible, remote-friendly working - including supporting home office setup
- Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
- 1:1 coaching and counselling through Oliva
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months at full pay
- Private medical insurance and life insurance (provided by Vitality and AIG, respectively)
How do I apply?
Are we your next move? Apply via the link below, if there's a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through our interview process in detail.
N.B: We have a small London office in Moorgate, and we are comfortable hiring people to work from anywhere in the UK. About half of the company is based within occasional commuting distance of London, the other half is full-time remote.
Our goal is for Griffin to represent the diversity of the working population in society proportionally. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you.
Griffin Bank Ltd request that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to any employee or associate of our company unless explicitly asked to do so by a member of our Talent team.
Any CVs sent to any member of our team on a speculative basis will not be recognised, and we will not accept liability for any fee or commission should we subsequently employ a candidate who applied to us directly or was introduced by an instructed agency that may also have been submitted speculatively by an uninstructed agency.
