We all play for team Blue – We are collaborative, empathetic, energetic, fair, helpful, inclusive, supportive and we build lasting relationships.
We take responsibility – We are accountable, creative, influential and problem solvers. We have integrity and pride. We take ownership.
We work like a start-up – We are customer-focused, adaptable, innovative, pragmatic,proactive and resilient.
We have a voice and every door is open – We actively listen, get involved, openly communicate. We seek guidance and are open-minded.
Blue Benefits
As a valued member of the Blue team, you will get:
25 Days Annual Leave Entitlement
One additional day’s leave for your birthday
Private Medical Cover
Life Insurance Cover
Self-Invested Pension Plan (SIPP)
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Access to Blue Motor Finance benefits portal
Gym Membership discounts
Eye Care Cost reimbursement
Premium Bonds for children
Office Social Activities
Tusker
Tech Scheme
Cycle to Work
Employee referral scheme
Occupational parental pay after 12 months continuous service at the beginning of the 11th week before the EWC
Challenging and exciting work environment
Continuous development
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Our people are the key to our success and we are proud of our high calibre teams. We empower our people to take initiative, challenge the norm, think for themselves and make decisions to deliver an exemplary service. We recruit the best, forward thinking, creative people to work at Blue. We want our people to inspire our future!
We have big plans for the future and you could be part of them. Take a look below to see if you have what it takes to be part of Team Blue and view our current vacancies.
Area Sales Executive/ Manager - Region 1
Job purpose
To manage a region and be responsible for dealerships, broker and introducer relationships within that region and the quantity and quality of the business produced by those partners, ensuring accuracy at all times and that the company processes and procedures are followed.
Dimensions
To develop existing dealerships within the specific geographic region, this will involve re-energising existing dealerships or picking up general relationship management
To identify and recruit new dealerships
To develop dealerships into profitable producers of business
Have a thorough understanding of our products and pricing criteria
Feedback market intelligence with regard to competitors as well as both positive comments and improvement areas for the company as a whole. Understand where our strengths lie and ensuring all partners are aware of our strengths at all times
Understanding and delivering the brand values of the business, and acting as an ambassador for the company
Provide training and support to dealerships where required
Keep electronic and paper filing in order at all times
To present the company in a professional and confidential manner at all times
To pay due care and attention to your own and others’ health and safety at all times.
Knowledge, skills and experience required
Experience
Strong awareness of the industry sector and regulations
Extensive field sales experience in the financial services sector
Experience of managing a large geographic area
An excellent understanding of the motor finance sector, can hit the ground running
Ability to identify the right sales approach for each business partner
Outstanding time management and organisation skills
Knowledge of TCF and Consumer Duty
Ability to understand and comply with documented processes and procedures
Excellent verbal and written communication
Interpersonal
Adaptable and flexible
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent planning and organisational skills
Enthusiastic ‘can do’ attitude
Able to work under pressure to tight deadlines Accuracy and attention to detail
Professional and well presented
Establishes effective working relationships
Customer focused approach
Qualifications
Good educational background with proficiency demonstrable in Maths and English
Computer Literate, including MS office products and Email
Additional information
Permanent basis
37.5 hours a week working remotely
Salary sacrifice scheme – electric car and Tech
This role is based in the North of England – TS, DL and CA – (Teeside, Darlington and Carlisle)
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Cloud and Infrastructure Specialist
Cloud and Infrastructure Specialist
Are you an IT professional looking for an opportunity to work for an award winning FinTech company? Do you want to work with the latest technology and progress your career to the next level? You could be joining a market leading FinTech company currently looking to scale-up its operations.
At Blue Motor Finance, we deliver innovative car financing solutions and have grown remarkably since starting lending operations in 2014. With our cutting edge, innovative technology, and future growth plans, this is a great time to join us!
Job Purpose
To join this growing team, you will need to have 5+ years of experience in a similar role. You will be working on the maintenance and improvement of Blue Motor Finance’s cloud-based infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
First point of contact for all internally managed Server instances.
Daily review and maintenance of AWS estate through monitoring tools.
Ensuring business continuity with the availability of services running on AWS including webservers, IaaS and SaaS solutions.
Perform discovery tasks and drive change and innovation for Infrastructure platforms for continuous improvements, with a preference for Cloud native platforms.
Provide support and guidance on best practices for the Development team from non-production environments through to Production for business objectives.
Explore technical direction for IaaS and SaaS technologies for improvements to current processes.
Provide and maintain documentation for processes within Blue’s eco system.
Windows Domain Architecture, Design and administration and security.
Manage networking including subnetting, VLAN, WAN, VPN, Load-Balancing and Firewall technologies for both Cloud on On-Prem networks.
Experience Required:
Ability to work within a team but also unassisted.
Problem solving and troubleshooting thought process.
Windows Server Administration 2016 + including AD and DNS.
Network Administration subnetting, VLAN, WAN and VPN On-Prem and Cloud.
Webserver and IIS administration and configuration.
Windows Clustering HADR.
Hands-on administration of AWS including EC2, IAM, EBS, RDS and VPC.
PowerShell for Windows.
Desired Experience
Comfortable to liaise and integrate with all levels of the business.
Ability to challenge and articulate clearly current and future processes.
Exposure to Terraform, Python or JSON.
Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft 365 including Outlook and SharePoint.
Project Management and Ticketing tools.
Transactional Replication configuration and administration.
Microsoft SQL Server Standard, Developer and Enterprise 2016 onwards.
SQL HADR including Availability Groups.
CI/CD pipeline experience.
RDS Microsoft SQL Server, Aurora, MySQL.
Linux Administration.
Microsoft Azure.
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Collections Account Manager
Collections at Blue
Collections although one team led by the Director of Customer Management, is split into two halves - the phone team and the admin team. We work with other areas of Customer Management too, such as Recoveries, Blue Academy, Special Servicing and Complaints.
Collections phone team – this team take inbound calls and make outbound calls to help our customers that are not able to make their Finance payments to Blue, whilst recognising any vulnerabilities. The team ensure they are complying with Consumer Duty and treating our customers fairly.
Collections admin team – this team ensure all emails are responded to within 24 hours, along with producing letters and sending information-based emails.
Overall purpose of role
This role is part of a team that ensures all customer records are updated in accordance with company and industry guidelines and ensure that all information gathered during the course of any customer conversations are clearly noted onto the in-house debt management platform.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
Responding effectively to inbound customer telephone calls resulting from outbound correspondence, emails, SMS and outbound telephone calls within prevailing abandoned call parameters
To maintain optimum levels of outbound customer calling
Resolving delinquent accounts within prevailing guidelines
Completing income and expenditure
Collecting card payments
Negotiating payment plans within prevailing guidelines
Identifying Expressions of Dissatisfaction and potential complaints
Identifying potentially vulnerable customers
Ensure customer information is accurately and efficiently maintained
Ensure that customers are treated fairly at all times
Ensure that all vulnerable or potentially vulnerable customers are effectively managed at all times
To liaise with other operational departments that are involved in the customer journey
To ensure all performance and productivity targets are achieved and maintained
Conform to all quality and legal requirements
To carry out any ad-hoc duties as requested by your line management
Compliance and regulation
Developing a full understanding of the Company’s compliance requirements (including the Financial Conduct Authority’s Conduct Rules) and act in accordance with the standards, instructions in, and the spirit of those requirements.
Person specification
Good team player, flexible and able to work on own initiative
Strong interpersonal skills, able to establish effective working relationships at all levels
Appreciates the importance of accuracy and attention to detail
Demonstrates a sense of urgency and good work ethic
Ability to work with competing deadlines and priorities
Resilient, not derailed by a setback and returns to a high level of performance quickly
Excellent customer service skills and awareness of the importance of the customer
Comfortable and competent with MS Office.
Professional and well presented
Additional requirements
This document is neither contractual nor exhaustive and may be amended to meet the needs of the business. Where possible this will be done in consultation with the job holder
From time to time, and within reason, you may be required to carry out tasks that fall outside of your position’s remit
From time to time, and within reason, you may be required to work outside of your standard contracted hours
Perm / 37.5 hours a week (8.5 hours per day inc. 1 unpaid hour for lunch = 7.5 hours a day). Office hours consist of 8am-7pm, shift-based rota, Saturday 9am-1pm (time off in lieu)
Hybrid working available after training completed - 3 days office based as a minimum
As part of your on-going development, you may be required to undertake training in order to meet the requirements of your role.
Due to our remote location and lack of public transport it is suggested that you are a driver and are able to get to our offices in Sundridge, Sevenoaks.
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Credit Controller
Overall purpose of the role
The role is part of the Finance Team ensuring the timely and accurate administration of unpaid dealer invoices.
The scope is relatively broad and includes liaising with the dealers, the sales force, external parties, and customers, as well as the Financial Ombudsman Service, both over the phone and via written correspondence. The objective is to ensure compliance with company’s processes and procedures and control debt levels.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
Collecting debts in a timely and effective manner
Resolving outstanding invoice queries, both internally and externally
Finding commercially viable solutions for outstanding invoices
Collaborating with the in-house Legal Team for legal actions
Negotiating re-payment plans
Escalating to external Debt Collections Agencies when necessary
Identifying and reporting areas of concern while adhering to Consumer Duty and compliance procedures
Participating in remedial projects
Maintaining electronic and paper filing systems
Representing the company in a professional and confidential manner
Knowledge, skills and experience required
Experience
1-2 years of Credit Control experience – preferably in the motor finance sector
Experience of working in a team in an office environment
Experience of liaising directly with suppliers by phone and other media
Ability to understand and comply with documented processes, policies and procedures
Knowledge of treating customers fairly (Consumer Duty)
Awareness of current FCA regulations
Qualifications
Good educational background with proficiency demonstrable in Maths and English
Computer Literate, including MS office products and email
Interpersonal
Exceptional planning and organisational skills
Accuracy and attention to detail
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
Enthusiastic 'can-do' attitude
Adaptable and flexible
Establish effective working relationships across the business
Have tenacity to be able to establish rapport with dealers and ASMs and successfully collect payments
Ability to work as part of a team and individually
Customer-focused approach
Compliance and regulation
Develop and maintain a full understanding of the Company’s compliance requirements (including the Financial Conduct Authority’s Conduct Rules) and act in accordance with the standards, instructions in, and the spirit of those requirements.
Act to deliver good outcomes for our customers and dealers and understand how this requirement specifically applies to your role at Blue.
Additional requirements
This document is neither contractual nor exhaustive and may be amended to meet the needs of the business. Where possible this will be done in consultation with the job holder.
From time to time, and within reason, you may be required to carry out tasks that fall outside of your position’s remit.
From time to time, and within reason, you may be required to work outside of your standard contracted hours.
As part of your on-going development, you may be required to undertake training in order to meet the requirements of your role.
Due to our remote location and lack of public transport it is suggested that you are a driver and can get to our offices in Sundridge, Sevenoaks.
Working Hours
Permanent Position
37.5 Hours a week (8.5 hours per day Inc. 1 unpaid hours for Lunch
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Customer Service Adviser
Job purpose
You will be part of an engaging team of Customer Service Advisers who put the customer at the heart of everything they do. We are striving for first call resolution whilst providing a positive and friendly service to our customers. This is a growing and developing role along with the growth of the department. We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic customer service advisers who want to offer the best service to our customers whilst insuring Blue’s integrity.
Responsibilities
The key aspects of the role:
Respond to Inbound and outbound telephone/email enquiries in a professional and courteous manner
Maintain customer account records by recording / updating information as required
Record any dissatisfaction / satisfaction information in line with the company procedure’s
Contribute towards the team by working together to achieve the SLA requirements
Assisting customers with updates to ongoing complaint issues or recording new complaints for our complaints handlers to deal with
To present the company in a professional manner and maintain confidentiality
Identify and assess customers’ needs in order to achieve good customer outcomes and one call resolution where possible
Completion of outbound welcome calls
To complete all ad hoc tasks as distributed by the Senior / Team Leader
Ensuring electronic and paper filing is up to date and always in order
Communicate and build sustainable relationships with all other internal departments and field staff
Standard requirements:
Know, understand and apply the principles of TCF and the Consumer Duty
Keep electronic and paper filing in order at all times
Keep up to date with the company’s products & mandatory training
Present the company in a professional manner at all times
Knowledge, skills and experience required
Qualifications
Good educational background with proficiency demonstrable in maths and English
Computer Literate, including MS office products and Email
Experience
Experience of working in a team in an office environment
Knowledge the FCA’s Conduct Rules, particularly treating customers fairly (TCF) and the Consumer Duty
Ability to understand and comply with documented processes, policies and procedures
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Interpersonal
Motivated to learn and do well, to absorb as much of the training as possible and keen to develop their career
Adaptable and flexible
Ability to work as part of a team but also individually
Reliable
Enthusiastic ‘can do’ attitude
Accuracy and attention to detail
Professional and well presented
Customer focused approach
Additional information
Perm / 37.5 hours a week (8.5 hours per day inc. 1 unpaid hour for lunch = 7.5 hours a day)
Rota shift work based on 8am-6pm Monday to Friday
Able to reliably commute to office
Scope of Role
Report directly to Team Leader
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Quality Assurance Officer
Customer Experience at Blue
The customer experience team at Blue are responsible for completing testing around quality control and the end-to-end customer journey. The team ensures Blue are providing good customer outcomes whilst also adhering to policies and procedures. The team provide an integral insight into results and trends across the business, suggesting remedial activities as well as identifying risks and trends. The team is part of the wider Customer Management Department, however, does sit independently as part of the Customer Experience Team.
Overall Purpose of the Role
The purpose of this role is to conduct comprehensive and robust quality checks on work completed within different departments across Blue, assisting the Customer Experience Team Leader in identifying trends and risks, escalating issues for timely resolution, and supporting the creation of reports and remedial actions shared company wide.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Assess calls based on different call types, ensuring compliance with regulatory authorities (FCA) and accuracy in scoring.
Assist the Customer Experience Team Leader in creating weekly and monthly reports outlining patterns, risks, and trends for higher management.
Identify trends and risks in the business and escalate them via the Customer Experience Team Leader for timely resolution.
Conduct calibration sessions with the compliance manager and contact centre team leaders to align assessments.
Perform spot checks, offering guidance on emerging themes and trends, while ensuring thorough quality checks and identifying vulnerabilities in calls.
Maintain required call sampling targets and timelines while creating high-quality call feedback summaries.
Liaise with other areas of the business and internal teams for query resolution.
Work closely with the Customer Experience Team Leader to manage workloads effectively and monitor call volumes within a set timeframe.
Use analytical judgment skills to provide clear rationale on decisions and assess customer outcomes.
Implement ongoing enhancements in processes and procedures aligned with business objectives.
Compliance and regulation
Develop and maintain a full understanding of the Company’s compliance requirements (including the Financial Conduct Authority’s Conduct Rules) and act in accordance with the standards, instructions in, and the spirit of those requirements.
Act to deliver good outcomes for our customers and understand how this requirement specifically applies to your role at Blue.
Person Specification
Excellent understanding of current FCA regulations.
Proficient in fostering effective relationships across all levels, with strong interpersonal skills and a deep understanding of customer importance. Confidently interfaces with customers, regulators, and external agencies.
Essential to have a strong understanding of consumer duty, outcome testing, and cross-cutting rules.
Comfortable identifying and raising issues, particularly where driving good outcomes for customers are concerned.
Good team player, flexible and able to work on own initiative.
Appreciates the importance and delivers accuracy and attention to detail.
Demonstrates a sense of urgency and good work ethic.
Ability to work with competing deadlines and priorities.
Resilient, not derailed by a setback and returns to a high level of performance quickly.
Comfortable and competent with MS Office.
Additional Requirements
This document is neither contractual nor exhaustive and may be amended to meet the needs of the business. Where possible this will be done in consultation with the job holder.
From time to time, and within reason, you may be required to carry out tasks that fall outside of your position’s remit.
From time to time, and within reason, you may be required to work outside of your standard contracted hours.
As part of your on-going development, you may be required to undertake training in order to meet the requirements of your role.
Due to our remote location and lack of public transport it is suggested that you are a driver and can get to our offices in Sundridge, Sevenoaks.
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Underwriter
Job purpose
This role is part of a team that ensures timely and accurate administration of finance loan products. This includes processing applications online, liaising with customers and colleagues and dealing with queries. Ensuring accuracy at all times, and that the company's processes & procedures are followed.
Dimensions
- Underwrite referred deals to policy and mandate - Make confident decisions in line with business rules and processes - Manage ‘more information’ queries - Investigate potential frauds, PEP and sanctions matches - Verification of the completeness and accuracy of credit proposals - Keep electronic and paper filing in order at all times - To keep up to date with the company’s products - To present the company in a professional and confidential manner at all times - To pay due care and attention to your own, and others’ health & safety at all times
Knowledge, skills and experience required
Qualifications: - Good educational background with proficiency demonstrable in Math’s and English - Computer literate, including MS office products and email
Experience: - Experience of working in a team in an office environment - Ideally 1-2 years previous underwriting experience - preferably in a consumer finance environment - Knowledge of TCF - Ability to understand and comply with documented processes and procedures
Interpersonal: - Adaptable and flexible - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Ability to work as part of a team - Excellent planning and organisational skills - Enthusiastic 'can do’ attitude - Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines - Accuracy and attention to detail - Professional and well-presented - Establishes effective working relationships - Customer focused approach
Additional information - Perm / 37.5 hours a week (8.5 hours per day inc. 1 unpaid hour for lunch = 7.5 hours a day). Office hours consist of 8am-8pm shift-based rota - Able to reliably commute to office - Hybrid working available after training completed - 3 days office based as a minimum - Weekend shifts and occasional bank holiday work is required with a day in lieu earnt.
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Equal Opportunities statement
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships and offending background.