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We employ excellent communicators, IT specialists and industry specialists, all with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.
We live what we do, applying our philosophy, strategies and solutions to the way we manage our business. Work at Simitive and you’ll be working as part of an engaged, confident and motivated team. Our customers value our commitment and ‘can do’ attitude, characteristics we look for when recruiting new people to join us. You can apply direct for current vacancies listed below or alternatively send your CV to info@simitive.com |
Current vacancies
Implementer
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
The role of a Simitive Implementer is to gather client requirements, implement our software, and train users on its use for customers around the world.
We have an opportunity for the right individual to join the Simitive Client Services Team. You will have a keen interest in innovative ways to make organisations and people work better and want to give clients the best possible experience. Simitive Implementers are known for professionalism, in depth knowledge of Simitive products and the industry we work in, and a strong ability to translate customer requirements into a functional system.
Responsibilities:
Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Product Trainer
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
A Simitive product trainer is responsible for ensuring that all Simitive employees and clients are trained in the Simitive products to the appropriate level of product knowledge.
As the Simitive trainer you will be responsible for the preparation, upkeep and delivery of all product training material. Including mechanisms to measure engagement in learning and successful knowledge transfer.
Responsibilities
Necessary abilities and behaviours
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
QA Analyst
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
An exciting opening for a QA analyst with 2 or more years’ experience has arisen based in central Bristol. We are a dynamic, fast-growing organisation offering a competitive salary plus benefits, the opportunity to develop new skills and receive additional training and qualifications.
We have a broad range of existing products as well as several new development projects and are looking to continue improving our current QA process. This includes the introduction of new testing tools, workflows and the addition of automated testing to complement our ongoing need for manual QA
The ideal candidate will be experienced in QA testing of web-based applications and able to respond quickly and effectively to new work and requirements. They will need to be an effective communicator, liaising with other QA team members the development team and the product owner in order to ensure that the quality of the software delivered is at a high level.
Responsibilities:
Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:
Essential for this role
In return you will receive:
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Senior Software Developer
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
The successful Senior developer will report directly to the Head of technical Services and join an expanding team of enthusiastic and likeminded technology professionals. We are looking for someone with an ability and a passion for writing clean, well-tested code as well as having a natural drive to understand new technology and assist in developing solutions to complicated problems.
This is an exciting role best suited to a motivated self-starter with a great eye for detail and a desire to help people. You will have the opportunity to work with different technologies and be a key member of the technical services department of the company.
This is currently a remote role. However, when regulations permit, you would ideally be expected to visit the Bristol office from time to time. That said, if you are only able to work remotely, we are open to discussing that as an option as well.
Responsibilities
Necessary abilities and behaviours
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Technical Project Coordinator
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time/Part Time: Permanent (Flexible)
The successful technical project coordinator will report directly to the Head of Technical Services and will be responsible for assisting our project managers in organizing our ongoing technical projects. This task involves monitoring project plans, schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditure, organising and participating in stakeholder meetings, and ensuring that project deadlines are met.
This is an exciting role best suited to a motivated self-starter with a great eye for detail and a desire to help people. You will have the opportunity to work with different projects and initiatives and be a key member of the Technical Services department of the company.
This is currently a remote role. However, when regulations permit, you would ideally be expected to visit the Bristol office from time to time. That said, if you are only able to work remotely, we are open to discussing that as an option as well.
Responsibilities
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Senior Costing Specialist
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
Simitive, the market leader in Cloud software for Universities is recruiting a Senior Costing Specialist for its Costing product to join the growing Client Services Team. The role of the Senior Costing Specialist is to work with clients to successfully consult on and implement the Activity Based Costing Product for Higher Education, ABC-HE and deliver services that support both TRAC and Course and Module Costing at universities. This product supports universities in having transparent planning, modelling and ongoing management and reporting for activity-based costing and contribution analysis.
We have an opportunity for the right individual to join the Simitive Client Services Team. You will have a keen interest in innovative ways to make organisations and people work better and want to give clients the best possible experience.
Responsibilities:
Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:
In return you will receive:
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
The role of a Simitive Implementer is to gather client requirements, implement our software, and train users on its use for customers around the world.
We have an opportunity for the right individual to join the Simitive Client Services Team. You will have a keen interest in innovative ways to make organisations and people work better and want to give clients the best possible experience. Simitive Implementers are known for professionalism, in depth knowledge of Simitive products and the industry we work in, and a strong ability to translate customer requirements into a functional system.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver requirements gathering, implementation and training work streams within a project on time and budget whilst maintaining high client satisfaction.
- Contribute to planning project activities and provide logistical support.
- Work directly with the client to create and administer the implementation project.
- Lead requirements gathering sessions and translate this into the Simitive software.
- Maintain a high level of knowledge on Simitive systems.
- Lead and assist in Simitive configuration, testing and user training.
- Work closely with Simitive project managers to support the client needs throughout the project.
- Participate in business development activities including demonstrations of the system with prospective clients.
- Document implemented solutions for improved communication between the client and Account Managers and Support Team.
- Ensure problems are effectively escalated and effective support is provided as needed.
- Be an advocate for the business, by providing high quality service.
Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts simply and clearly to clients.
- Well organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities with a hands-on approach.
- Experienced in implementing systems for external clients.
- Familiar with the Higher and Further Education sectors
- Excellent creative, analytical and computer skills.
- Strong relationship building, communication and presentation skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to evaluate internal and external business processes and recommend effective solutions.
- Knowledge of project life cycle, including the ability to coordinate and prioritise workload across multiple projects.
- The ability and commitment to adhere to all company policies and procedures.
- Willing to travel 2-3 days per week, including international opportunities.
- Competitive Salary
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
- Company pension
- Perkbox subscription
- Remote, office or hybrid working
- Flexible working hours
- Nespresso coffee in the office
- Free fruit in the office
- Team and Company events throughout the year
- A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Product Trainer
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
A Simitive product trainer is responsible for ensuring that all Simitive employees and clients are trained in the Simitive products to the appropriate level of product knowledge.
As the Simitive trainer you will be responsible for the preparation, upkeep and delivery of all product training material. Including mechanisms to measure engagement in learning and successful knowledge transfer.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and deliver all training courses and course material.
- Maintain a record of the training courses available.
- Plan, prepare and research in preparation for each training course.
- Assess internal individual and group training needs, maintaining training records for each internal course delivered.
- Where appropriate, apply new technologies to course delivery to improve the learning experience for those receiving training.
- Appropriately pitch the training for the audience.
- Produce mechanisms for ensuring the training was understood.
- Remain up to date with the Simitive product suite, including changes to the products but also legislation and sector changes that may have an impact on product training.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of each training session.
Necessary abilities and behaviours
- Willing to travel to client site 50-70% of the time.
- Confidence to delivery training both remotely through a web-conference and in person on client site.
- Able to effectively communicate to a range of stakeholders, both internally and externally.
- Have a positive approach to learning new things, troubleshooting potential issues and to help provide solutions.
- Friendly, eager and inspiring.
- Competitive Salary
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
- Company pension
- Perkbox subscription
- Remote, office or hybrid working
- Flexible working hours
- Nespresso coffee in the office
- Free fruit in the office
- Team and Company events throughout the year
- A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
QA Analyst
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
An exciting opening for a QA analyst with 2 or more years’ experience has arisen based in central Bristol. We are a dynamic, fast-growing organisation offering a competitive salary plus benefits, the opportunity to develop new skills and receive additional training and qualifications.
We have a broad range of existing products as well as several new development projects and are looking to continue improving our current QA process. This includes the introduction of new testing tools, workflows and the addition of automated testing to complement our ongoing need for manual QA
The ideal candidate will be experienced in QA testing of web-based applications and able to respond quickly and effectively to new work and requirements. They will need to be an effective communicator, liaising with other QA team members the development team and the product owner in order to ensure that the quality of the software delivered is at a high level.
Responsibilities:
- Manual testing of bug-fixes and enhancements to existing web-based applications through varying methods (scripted, sanity, smoke and exploratory testing)
- Clear documentation of testing steps, cases and processes where required
- Involvement in the creation of test strategies and workflows for new products/applications, working alongside Business Analysts and Developers
- Providing time estimates for testing on projects for both existing and new applications
- Ticket Management including screening and triage of new bugs and enhancement requests, working closely with our Client Services team
- Supporting the introduction of new testing processes and technologies
- Providing guidance, feedback and support to other QA team members and the wider Technical Service team
- Reporting to the QA Lead
Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:
Essential for this role
- 2 years’ experience providing QA across web or mobile applications
- Clear understanding and experience of testing API’s using tools such as Postman
- ISTQB Foundation level qualified
- A clear understanding of the most popular Software Development Lifecycles
- A basic understanding of Git and version control
- Experience being involved in defining new processes within a QA team
- Experience writing test plans, test cases and supporting documentation
- Very strong written and verbal communication skills
- Great critical thinking and problem-solving
- Deals well with ambiguity and adapting to change
- Enjoys being an integral part of a dynamic team
- The ability to work independently and be self-motivated
- A passion to develop technical and personal skills through guided training and self-development
- Desirable/Beneficial for this role
- Comfortable using the Mac/Linux Command-Line Interface
- Experience testing complex web-based applications, covering both front and back-end parts of the systems.
- Any knowledge of, or experience using automated testing frameworks
- Experience verifying data in mySQL
- Experience in Agile and/or Scrum environments
- Experience either running or participating in User Acceptance Testing
- Understanding of browser compatibility requirements and knowledge of WCAG Compliance
- Experience being involved across multiple projects/workflows simultaneously, with varying team member and stakeholders
In return you will receive:
- Competitive Salary
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
- Company pension
- Perkbox subscription
- Remote, office or hybrid working
- Flexible working hours
- Nespresso coffee in the office
- Free fruit in the office
- Team and Company events throughout the year
- A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Senior Software Developer
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
The successful Senior developer will report directly to the Head of technical Services and join an expanding team of enthusiastic and likeminded technology professionals. We are looking for someone with an ability and a passion for writing clean, well-tested code as well as having a natural drive to understand new technology and assist in developing solutions to complicated problems.
This is an exciting role best suited to a motivated self-starter with a great eye for detail and a desire to help people. You will have the opportunity to work with different technologies and be a key member of the technical services department of the company.
This is currently a remote role. However, when regulations permit, you would ideally be expected to visit the Bristol office from time to time. That said, if you are only able to work remotely, we are open to discussing that as an option as well.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for working on the evolution of our platform, adding well thought out features and improving the functionality and performance of the software.
- You will be mentoring and helping junior members of the team develop to its great potential.
- You will be ready to convert all the well-known agile key words (scrum, squads, sprints, burn down charts…) into our core values: collaboration, accountability, and quality.
Necessary abilities and behaviours
- Demonstrable commercial experience creating applications with PHP using frameworks such as Symfony or Laravel.
- 5 years’ experience at commercial level.
- Understanding of Cloud infrastructure and ability apply it to improve scalability, performance, and security.
- Demonstrable Commercial experience in data persistence, covering different database types to better suite the need (SQL, schema-less, in memory cache, data lake…)
- Demonstrable Commercial experience with modern UI frameworks
- Experience on React JS preferable.
- Strong understanding of Application development and best coding practices.
- An academic background with a BSc Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Competitive Salary.
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays).
- An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment.
- Company pension.
- Perkbox subscription.
- Flexible working hours.
- Nespresso coffee in the office.
- Free fruit.
- Team and Company events throughout the year
- A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meeting’s.
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Technical Project Coordinator
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time/Part Time: Permanent (Flexible)
The successful technical project coordinator will report directly to the Head of Technical Services and will be responsible for assisting our project managers in organizing our ongoing technical projects. This task involves monitoring project plans, schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditure, organising and participating in stakeholder meetings, and ensuring that project deadlines are met.
This is an exciting role best suited to a motivated self-starter with a great eye for detail and a desire to help people. You will have the opportunity to work with different projects and initiatives and be a key member of the Technical Services department of the company.
This is currently a remote role. However, when regulations permit, you would ideally be expected to visit the Bristol office from time to time. That said, if you are only able to work remotely, we are open to discussing that as an option as well.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures.
- Organising, attending, and participating in stakeholder meetings.
- Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
- Ensuring project deadlines are met.
- Determining project changes.
- Providing administrative support as needed.
- Undertaking project tasks as required.
- Developing project strategies.
- Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.
- Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.
- Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.
- Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members.
- Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.
- Contribute to the company’s business process group.
- Support the Head of Technical Service in meeting departmental objectives.
- Three years relatable experience.
- Exceptional verbal, written, presentation and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Experienced and comfortable using it systems and software for a variety of tasks.
- Knowledge of Agile and traditional management methodologies and techniques
- Any qualifications relating to business, project management, or similar would be an advantage.
- Competitive Salary
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
- Company pension
- Perkbox subscription
- Remote, office or hybrid working
- Flexible working hours
- Nespresso coffee in the office
- Free fruit in the office
- Team and Company events throughout the year
- A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Senior Costing Specialist
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
Simitive, the market leader in Cloud software for Universities is recruiting a Senior Costing Specialist for its Costing product to join the growing Client Services Team. The role of the Senior Costing Specialist is to work with clients to successfully consult on and implement the Activity Based Costing Product for Higher Education, ABC-HE and deliver services that support both TRAC and Course and Module Costing at universities. This product supports universities in having transparent planning, modelling and ongoing management and reporting for activity-based costing and contribution analysis.
We have an opportunity for the right individual to join the Simitive Client Services Team. You will have a keen interest in innovative ways to make organisations and people work better and want to give clients the best possible experience.
Responsibilities:
- Work with universities to understand their costing and TRAC requirements.
- Participate in benchmarking activities across the sector.
- Produce outputs to support university Senior Management Teams & TRAC steering committees and where required advise the university groups on surplus/deficit activities in order to inform strategic investment decisions.
- Develop appropriate quality assurance and monitoring frameworks to satisfy the demands of external verification and audit processes
- Support clients in the development and implementation of robust institutional approaches to the allocation of all direct and indirect costs (teaching, research and knowledge transfer).
- Develop detailed TRAC policies, procedures, and guidance for activities to support universities in decision making including indirect cost rates
- Develop costing and pricing principles to further assist in decision making.
- Work directly with the client to deliver costing and TRAC outputs for clients.
- Deliver configuration requirements gathering work streams within an Activity Based Costing Implementation project on time and budget whilst maintaining high client satisfaction.
- Lead configuration requirements gathering sessions and translate university costing practices into the configuration of the Simitive software.
- Be confident in offering knowledgeable and relevant advice and expertise to clients to help them improve their institutional performance through the Simitive software whilst meeting their specified objectives.
- Be able to assuredly advise on best practice processes seen across the sector.
- Work closely with Simitive project managers to support the client needs throughout the project.
- Document implemented solutions to improve project processes, striving to continuously improve the Simitive product implementation.
- Ensure problems are appropriately foreseen, identified, managed and escalated where necessary.
- Contribute to planning project activities and provide logistical support.
- Be an advocate for the business, by providing high quality service.
Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:
- CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant with experience of TRAC required.
- Knowledge and understanding of, with the ability to apply, sound costing principles and standards.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts simply and clearly.
- Well organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to evaluate internal and external business processes and recommend effective solutions.
- Previous experience of implementing systems.
- Knowledge of Higher Education accounting practices, including TRAC would be an advantage.
- Willing to travel up to 2-3 days per week.
In return you will receive:
- Competitive Salary
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
- Company pension
- Perkbox subscription
- Remote, office or hybrid working
- Flexible working hours
- Nespresso coffee in the office
- Free fruit in the office
- Team and Company events throughout the year
- A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com