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Simitive is an expanding company with a growing team
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We employ excellent communicators, IT specialists and industry specialists, all with a passion for performance and performance management.
We live what we do, applying our philosophy, strategies and goal-oriented 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
Lead Software Developer
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
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
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
Technical Project Coordinator
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
Responsibilities
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com
Junior Product Trainer
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
The Junior Product Trainer is responsible for ensuring Simitive clients and employees are effectively trained in Simitive products. As this is a junior role, you will receive training in teaching and learning, training material preparation and delivery, and how to evaluate success as a trainer. The Junior Trainer will work with the Training Team Lead on the preparation and delivery of all product training courses.
Responsibilities
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 Costing Specialist
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
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
Business Analyst
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
A Simitive business analyst is responsible for ensuring both internal improvement projects and product development projects are appropriately defined. This involves the understanding, documentation, and communication of all business requirements within each project.
Reporting to the Head of Client Services you will be responsible for supporting the business in the delivery of projects within Simitive.
Responsibilities
Necessary abilities and behaviours
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/Working from home
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 Symfony and PHP.
- 5 years’ experience at commercial level.
- Demonstrable commercial experience in AWS, Containerisation, CI/CD
- 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.
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.
- Flexible working hours.
- A Nespresso machine with free coffee.
- Free fruit.
- Staff 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/Working from home
Full 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
- Some remote working on a case-by-case basis
- Flexible working hours
- A Nespresso machine with free coffee in the office
- Free fruit in the office
- Staff 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
Junior Product Trainer
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
The Junior Product Trainer is responsible for ensuring Simitive clients and employees are effectively trained in Simitive products. As this is a junior role, you will receive training in teaching and learning, training material preparation and delivery, and how to evaluate success as a trainer. The Junior Trainer will work with the Training Team Lead on the preparation and delivery of all product training courses.
Responsibilities
- To assist in the design, development and maintenance of training courses and materials.
- To plan, prepare and research in preparation for each training course.
- To 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.
- To deliver high quality training courses to clients and internal staff, appropriately tailoring the material for the audience.
- To ensure all training materials are in line with the latest software releases.
- To respond to training related queries, both internally and externally.
- To evaluate the effectiveness of each training session.
- To ensure good communication with clients to promote additional training and Simitive products.
- Keen interest in software and technology.
- Able to effectively communicate complex information in a clear way to a range of stakeholders, both internally and externally.
- Able to engage audiences to ensure quality training participation.
- Outstanding communication skills, communicating effectively both verbally and in written form with colleagues and clients to a high standard
- Have a positive approach to learning new things, troubleshooting potential issues and to help provide solutions.
- Strong attention to detail, an outstanding work ethic and a commitment for results
- Eager to learn, friendly and inspiring.
- Exposure to delivering training and/or teaching would be advantageous.
- A willingness to travel (UK and Republic of Ireland) according to training delivery needs.
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
- Some remote working on a case-by-case basis
- Flexible working hours
- A Nespresso machine with free coffee in the office
- Free fruit in the office
- Staff 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/Working from home
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
- Some remote working on a case-by-case basis
- Flexible working hours
- A Nespresso machine with free coffee in the office
- Free fruit in the office
- Staff 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
Business Analyst
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)
A Simitive business analyst is responsible for ensuring both internal improvement projects and product development projects are appropriately defined. This involves the understanding, documentation, and communication of all business requirements within each project.
Reporting to the Head of Client Services you will be responsible for supporting the business in the delivery of projects within Simitive.
Responsibilities
- Works alongside the project manager to define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases and establish the project budget.
- Facilitates scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives and product development projects.
- Supports the operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats, as required by key stakeholders and project scope.
- Maintains business analysis documentation, standards and ensures the quality of these documents within each project.
- As defined within project process and scope, constructs processes and workflow charts and diagrams; studies system capabilities and writes specifications.
- Improves systems and processes by studying current practices, alongside required stakeholders and documenting modifications where appropriate.
- Monitors project BA workstream progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports and recommending actions.
- Analyses, understands, documents and communicates the operational and financial impact of any changes in a clear and succinct format.
- Always support proposed changes using analytics and evidence-based analysis when delivering to stakeholders and actively participate in the implementation of any approved changes.
- Identifies specific measures and mechanisms by which benefits can be measured, and plans to activate these mechanisms at the required time.
- Employs the most appropriate method and style of communication to ensure timely and accurate understanding for all stakeholders.
Necessary abilities and behaviours
- Ability to identify areas of improvement, propose controls and write procedures that will drive efficiency.
- Flexibility to support the needs of the business.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to talk and present to a range of audiences, and articulate complex concepts in a simple but accurate way.
- The ability to motivate and encourage others and be a facilitator of change.
- To work under pressure on multiple projects whilst using organisational skills to ensure delivery against project timeframes.
- A passion for creating solutions with a positive attitude towards change.
- Excellent analytical skills and an informed, evidence-based approach.
- A strong interest in the development of the business.
- An interest in, and understanding of, project management techniques and methodologies.
- Ability to share an understanding of problems, outline the parameters of the project, and determine potential solutions.
- The ability to work constructively and positively within multi-functional teams, engendering and supporting a common understanding across the team and business functions.
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.
- Flexible working hours.
- A Nespresso machine with free coffee.
- Free fruit.
- Staff 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