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We believe that our people are our most valuable commodity, and we strive to attract only the best people who will be the driving force behind our success. In return, we invest in their growth and reward them for their hard work, loyalty, and dedication.
We recognise that building and developing your career is important. We encourage our employees to grasp every opportunity available by adding to their skill sets and by supporting them through relevant qualifications.
The foundations of our business has been built upon our people being passionate about customer service. We've created a sustainable working environment with flexible working hours to support the well-being of our people and our ESG strategy, as we endeavor to continually reduce our carbon footprint.
Our people's success is driven by the Conister Code:
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Customers - the excellence of service
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Ownership - the attitude of excellence
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Integrity - doing the right thing
Come and join our team...
If you are looking for a career change, are driven by success and are a person of value, we would like to hear from you.
Equal Opportunities
Conister Bank Limited recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Junior Credit Underwriter
We’re recruiting a Junior Credit Underwriter to join our Structured Finance and Credit Teams at Conister Bank’s Isle of Man office.
This role provides a structured development pathway into full underwriting competence, offering hands‑on training across credit analysis, portfolio management and structured finance frameworks. You’ll gain exposure to lending secured against receivables, block discounting facilities and asset‑backed structures for UK and Isle of Man wholesale customers.
Working closely with the Head of Structured Finance Credit and the wider Credit Team, you’ll support the assessment of both new and existing proposals, analysing financial and non‑financial information to ensure lending decisions remain aligned with the Bank’s credit appetite, policy and regulatory expectations. This role is ideal for someone with strong analytical ability, an interest in credit risk, and a desire to build deep technical underwriting expertise.
Join us to play a meaningful role in supporting responsible lending, strengthening portfolio quality, and contributing to the continued success of our business.
For a full job description or to apply, please see below.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Prepare assessments based on the creditworthiness and risk profile of applicants.
- Review and analyse customer credit data, financial statements, cashflow forecasts, management information, budget planners and open banking data.
- Evaluate lending risks and make recommendations to the Head of Structured Finance Credit (HOSFC) and Head of Structured Finance (HOSF).
- Complete annual credit reviews for Structured Finance customers, recommending appropriate covenants, security structures and monitoring arrangements.
- Monitor portfolio performance, identifying early warning indicators and recommending actions in line with policy and appetite.
- Undertake QA and sample testing against eligibility and underwriting criteria for Structured Finance customers.
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Assess and approve credit proposals within your delegated authority and submit recommendations to the Credit Committee when required.
- Analyse affordability, financial crime risks and potential fraudulent behaviour.
- Stay up to date with Group lending protocols, policies and criteria.
- Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing learning and development in underwriting.
- Uphold service levels and promote the Group’s culture and values.
Principle Accountabilities
- Head of Structured Finance Credit
- Head of Structured Finance
- Credit Committee (where required)
Knowledge, Experience and Skills
The ideal candidate will have:
- Exposure to analysing financial statements, cashflow, credit bureau data and company registry searches.
- Understanding of relevant UK & IOM regulatory requirements relating to credit facilities, including KYC.
- Knowledge of Structured Finance products, such as block discounting or receivables finance is beneficial but not essential.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial and non‑financial data.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to influence at all levels.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Working Relationships
- Internal: Structured finance team, credit team, finance and compliance teams.
- External: External stakeholders related to Structured Finance portfolios (e.g., intermediaries, brokers, counterparties, auditors or advisers as applicable).
Decision Making Authority
As detailed in Personal Underwriting Authority Mandate and in accordance with the DLA Policy.
Business Analyst (12-month Maternity Cover)
We’re recruiting a Business Analyst to join our team at Conister Bank’s Isle of Man office on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract.
As a Business Analyst, you’ll play a vital role in shaping effective solutions that support the Bank’s performance and enhance customer outcomes. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure business needs are clearly understood, accurately documented, and translated into practical, well‑designed change.
This is a detail‑oriented and influential role that calls for strong analytical skill, clear communication, and the confidence to collaborate with teams at all levels. From analysing current processes to defining future requirements and supporting delivery teams, you’ll be a key part of driving improvements that make a genuine difference.
Join us to play an important role in delivering meaningful change, strengthening our operations, and contributing to the continued success of our organisation.
For a full job description or to apply, please see below.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Engage with stakeholders to understand business needs, pain points, and opportunities, facilitating workshops and discovery sessions.
- Document functional and non‑functional requirements using techniques such as user stories, use cases, and process maps.
- Analyse data, workflows, and system behaviour to define the “as is” and “to be” state and identify process improvements.
- Map and model business processes (BPMN or similar) and recommend improvements aligned with business strategy.
- Work with 3rd parties to ensure proposed solutions meet business needs and assess impacts across people, process, and systems.
- Support creation of acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and user acceptance testing.
- Contribute to change delivery activities including training, readiness, business cases, and benefits mapping.
- Build strong working relationships across business units and communicate complex concepts clearly.
- Ensure alignment and traceability from requirements through to implemented solutions.
Principle Accountabilities
To the Business Change Manager.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills
The ideal candidate will have:
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to translate business problems into clear requirements.
- Experience with requirements elicitation techniques.
- Proficiency in process mapping and modelling tools.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
- Familiarity with digital transformation or system implementation projects.
- Data analysis skills (Excel, SQL, Power BI, etc.).
- Knowledge of Change Management principles.
Working Relationships
- Internal: Business stakeholders and process owners across all departments, including Senior Managers, Change Teams and IT Teams.
- External: Third‑party suppliers and implementation partners, systems vendors, and external consultants supporting solution design if applicable.
Test Analyst
We’re recruiting a Test Analyst to join our team at Conister Bank’s Isle of Man office.
In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring the quality, stability and success of the systems and products that support our customers and our wider business. You’ll work closely with teams across Change, IT and the wider organisation to make sure every solution is rigorously tested, fit for purpose, and ready for release.
This is a hands‑on and detail‑driven role that requires strong analytical ability, excellent organisational skills, and a proactive approach to improving how we design and deliver testing. From validating requirements to creating test strategies, managing testing cycles and ensuring issues are identified early, you’ll help us deliver change that is robust, reliable and customer‑focused.
Join us to contribute to meaningful transformation, enhance how we work, and make a direct impact on the quality of solutions delivered across the business.
For a full job description or to apply, please see below.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Produce and maintain key testing artefacts, including Test Strategies, Test Cases and Test Summary Reports.
- Validate business requirements to ensure they are clear, concise and testable.
- Support design validation to ensure the proposed design meets business requirements and can be effectively tested.
- Schedule, plan and manage test cycles, ensuring all testing is sequenced and delivered efficiently.
- Provide regular progress updates to project teams and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Change Team, IT and external parties to improve testing approaches and ways of working.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of the testing framework.
- Produce testing estimates and support project planning activities.
Principle Accountabilities
Take full ownership of key testing tasks and deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills
The ideal candidate will have:
- Professional qualifications in testing (desirable).
- Proven experience as a Test Analyst, ideally within Banking, Insurance, or Investments.
- Experience working on large projects or programmes.
- Experience delivering a full range of testing artefacts.
- Strong proficiency with testing tools.
- Understanding of different project methodologies.
- Beneficial: ability to write or navigate basic SQL scripts.
- Beneficial: familiarity with automated testing tools.
Working Relationships
- Internal: Change Team, IT, and business teams across the MFG group.
- External: External partners or suppliers involved in testing or change delivery.
Compliance Advisor
We’re recruiting a Compliance Advisor to join our team at Conister Bank’s Isle of Man office.
As a Compliance Advisor, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the bank’s commitment to strong regulatory standards and responsible operations. You’ll help ensure our controls, processes, and practices remain robust, effective, and aligned with the requirements of the Isle of Man FSA, FCA and PRA.
This is a detail‑oriented and influential role that requires sound judgement, excellent communication skills, and the confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels. From monitoring regulatory changes to supporting senior managers with their compliance responsibilities, you’ll be an important part of ensuring we continue to operate safely, fairly and in line with our regulatory obligations.
Join us to make a meaningful contribution to the ongoing strength of our compliance framework and to support the continued success of our organisation.
For a full job description or to apply, please see below.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Where required, carry out the appointed roles of DMLRO (Class 1) as designated under the Isle of Man FSA regulatory appointed position. Discharging formal duties and assisting the MLRO, as required.
- Take ownership for allotted compliance monitoring as required, to ensure that controls are adequately designed and operating effectively to maintain compliance with all applicable law and regulation (this includes oversight of Partners compliance and conduct control framework).
- Support the maintenance of all registers and logs required by the FCA Sourcebook, and FSA Rulebook/Handbook (as applicable).
- Manage a register of PRA, FCA and FSA regulatory returns and notifications, ensuring that submissions are planned and owned within the wider team, and delivered in an accurate and timely manner.
- Review and assess internal disclosures and take ownership of externalising disclosure to relevant authority (IoM FIU and/or UK NCA) where appropriate.
- Provide ongoing advice and consultancy to the business in support of operating within regulatory guidelines and in ongoing compliance with all applicable laws and rules including Data Protection.
- Active management of IoM and UK FOS complaints - managing investigation, data collection and response (including those reassigned from Partners).
Principle Accountabilities
To the Bank Head of Compliance and other Senior Compliance Managers.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills
The ideal candidate will have:
- Experience compliance monitoring within the banking industry required.
- Hold a relevant professional qualification, or have demonstrable relevant industry experience (e.g. Compliance/Risk/Internal Audit/Legal).
- Working knowledge of FSA Rules: Financial Services Rule Book.
- Working knowledge of FCA and PRA Rules, particularly in relation to Banking (DISP, SYSC, PRIN), Consumer Credit (CONC) and/or mortgages (MCOB).
- Experience of discharging DMLRO responsibilities.
- Detailed working knowledge of AML rules and associated guidance.
- Systematic approach to work with demonstrable ability to work independently and deliver to deadline, whilst maintaining attention to detail.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, excelling in a one-on-one advisory capacity.
Working Relationships
- Internal: All business areas – particularly Senior Managers within the Group.
- External: Auditors, regulatory bodies and banking relationships.
Decision Making Authority
Where regulatory appointment is in place, empowered to assess events to determine whether an external report is required.
Management Accountant
We’re looking for a Management Accountant to join our Finance Team at Conister Bank’s Isle of Man office.
In this role, you’ll play a key part in supporting the financial health and strategic direction of Manx Financial Group PLC and its subsidiaries. You’ll contribute to the delivery of accurate, insightful financial reporting and analysis, helping to inform decision-making and drive performance across the Group.
Join us in supporting Conister Bank’s mission to provide financial excellence by monitoring performance, managing costs, assessing risks, and delivering strategic insights that drive informed decision-making.
For a full job description or to apply, please see below.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
In this role, you will…
- Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts for Manx Financial Group PLC and its subsidiaries.
- Support financial reporting with journal entries, reconciliations, VAT and tax filings, and management pack preparation.
- Drive continuous improvement in reporting through KPIs, variance analysis, and trend insights.
- Collaborate with teams across the business, respond to financial queries, and support team development.
- Provide cover for senior finance roles and ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
Principle Accountabilities
You’ll report to the Head of Management Accounting and the Group Financial Controller, supporting the Finance Director and wider Finance Team in delivering accurate financial reporting and analysis across the Group.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills
The ideal candidate will have:
- A recognised accountant qualification, be part-qualified, or have relevant industry experience.
- Knowledge of IFRS, UK Accounting Standards, and ERP systems (preferably SUN and Xero).
- Working knowledge of relational database theory sufficient to perform database queries.
- Excellent Excel and numeracy skills.
- Strong organisation and communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Working Relationships
- Internal: All business areas – particularly the Finance Team, Directors, and Senior Managers within the Group.
- External: Auditors, Sapphire Systems, and banking relationships.
Decision Making Authority
This is a non-authorised role. You’ll be an authorised signatory to release payments and act as a key support point for the wider business, but will not make financial decisions.
