Operations Manager, Life Events - Bereavements and Third Party Access

3 Weeks ago • All levels • Events • $47,600 PA - $60,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Monzo is seeking an experienced Operations Manager to lead its Life Events teams, focusing on Bereavements and Third Party Access within the Vulnerability, Accessibility, Inclusion, and Bereavements (VAIB) operation. This role involves managing customers and representatives through challenging life events, ensuring empathetic and high-quality service. Key responsibilities include driving a customer-centric culture, expanding the team, ensuring service delivery and efficiency, coaching Team Managers, interpreting performance data for improvements, and leading Life Events projects. The ideal candidate will have strong senior leadership experience in a fast-paced, customer-centric role, preferably in Banking/Financial Services, with a proven ability to build and grow high-performing teams.
Must have:
  • Operations Manager experience
  • Life Events/Bereavement/Third Party Access experience
  • Senior leadership experience
  • Customer-centric focus
  • Data interpretation for improvement
  • Team building and growth
  • Project leadership
  • Empathetic leadership style
Good to have:
  • Experience in a regulated environment
  • Banking/Financial Services background
Perks:
  • Share options
  • Flexible working hours
  • 1,000 learning budget annually
  • Work from home setup support
  • Macbooks

Job Details

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. 

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo


 

London, Cardiff or UK Remote | 💰£47,600 - £60,200 + Benefits | Hear from the team

 

⭐ Our Life Events Team (Bereavements and Third Party Access)

We’re looking for an experienced Operations Manager to be a leader for our Life Events teams in our Vulnerability, Accessibility, Inclusion and Bereavements (VAIB) operation. Our Life Events operation supports customers and representatives with some of the most challenging events including bereavements and providing support to set up third party access to Monzo accounts and services. 

Every person in our team cares deeply about their work and the impact that it can have on Monzo and our customers. The team are responsible for a number of different tasks, including deceased customer notifications, managing products held by deceased customers, defunding accounts to the customers estate and managing accounts on behalf of third parties. This requires the use of empathy, attention to detail, and providing high quality service at all times. 

This role requires a strong understanding of bereavement and/or third party access processes, and excellent leadership skills.  You’ll directly manage 3 Team Managers initially, expanding the team over the next 18 months, also working with other teams and third parties who provide additional support. 

 

🔑 You’ll play a key role by...

  • Leading a strong customer-centric culture and keeping everyone focused on what really matters: helping our customers and representatives during difficult and challenging life events.
  • Building and expanding the team to support growth.
  • Leading our teams to ensure delivery of great service, maximising efficiencies and delivering in line with key goals and performance indicators.
  • Coaching and developing your Team Managers ensuring that we deliver great outcomes with Quality and Compliance at the heart of what we do.
  • Interpreting performance data confidently and using this information to drive operational improvements, highlight areas for change and celebrate success.
  • From time to time you will be involved in supporting our wider stakeholders within recruitment and our People Team eg Interviewing within VAIB and or supporting people cases. 
  • Leading on key projects using your knowledge within Life Events (bereavements and third party access) to help shape the future for our people, business, customers and representatives.
  • Helping us become an exceptional place to work, we are proud to be part of Monzo and it is important that we celebrate others and important milestones.
  • Leading team rituals, planning meetings and retrospectives - making sure the information flow out from, and into, the team is easy and effective.

 

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

  • You are an experienced Operations Manager, that has specifically worked in a regulated environment, supporting Life Events teams (bereavements and third party access).
  • You have clear strong senior leadership experience, in a fast paced and customer-centric role, preferably Banking/Financial Services.
  • You love driving exceptional service and understand the importance of getting things right for our customers and their representatives first time, every time.
  • You’re able to interpret data, join the dots and make recommendations to drive continuous process improvements.
  • Have experience of building and growing teams into a high performing and highly efficient operation.
  • Are able to prioritise based on customer demands, business needs and risk mitigation.
  • Able to lead projects, execute and deliver.
  • You’re as comfortable working 1:1 as well as collaborating with and communicating to large groups.
  • You’ve led successful teams to achieve their goals, have an empathetic leadership style and empower your people to find solutions.
  • You thrive in coaching and developing others to help them reach their potential.
  • Able to motivate your teams, have a hands-on style and solve problems when you spot them.
  • What we are doing at Monzo excites you!

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

🙌What’s in it for you

💰£47,600 - £60,200 ➕ share options worth £50,000.

📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK 

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

 

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

  • Application
  • A short video call with a member of the Hiring team
  • 2x Interviews via Google Meet

This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! 

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

 

You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to hiring@monzo.com. You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out. 

 

#LI-REMOTE #LI-OH


Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual attention, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

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We’re building the best bank in the world - a bank you'd be proud to use - and that means bringing together a talented team with diverse experiences, backgrounds and skills. We believe there should be an alternative to the banking of the past: we're focused on solving problems, rather than selling financial products, making your financial life simpler, and giving you complete control from your smartphone. Internally, we encourage an open, collaborative, inclusive working environment. We contribute to open source software, and we continually engage with our wonderful community. We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future.

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