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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: We're looking for an experienced Treasury Systems leader to shape and deliver the future of Treasury technology at WPP. Reporting into Group Treasury, you'll lead the management, optimisation and transformation of our global treasury systems landscape, supporting the delivery of Elevate28, WPP's strategic transformation programme. You'll work across Treasury, Finance, Technology, regional teams and external partners to drive automation, improve controls, enhance reporting, and deliver major system initiatives. The role will oversee cross-regional transformation projects, ensuring successful delivery of complex system and process changes while managing risks, dependencies, resources, and key stakeholder decisions. You will also play a pivotal role in Treasury Systems governance, leading change request management, supporting Steering Committee activities, and helping shape the future operating model of the Treasury function. This is a high-impact role with the opportunity to influence the future operating model of Treasury Systems at a global scale while leading a team based in Bengalu

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance. RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments. Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products. Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms. Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics. Le

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About Ema Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. Role: Senior Technical Support Specialist (Enterprise Agentic AI) Company: Ema Unlimited Inc. Location: London Employment Type: Full-time/Remote 1. About Ema (Why Ema) Ema is building the world’s first Universal AI Employee — a production-grade agentic AI platform that automates real enterprise workflows across HR, IT, Finance, and Operations. Ema’s customers do not run demos. They replace mission-critical, manual business processes with agentic AI systems that operate across multiple SaaS tools, APIs, and human-in-the-loop workflows. In this world, support is not reactive . Support is production reliability, trust preservation, and system learning . At Ema, Senior Technical Support Specialists are operators of live AI systems , not ticket handlers. 2. Role Overview The Senior Support Engineer owns the health, reliability, and trustworthiness of Ema’s deployed agentic AI systems in production. This role sits at the intersection of: AI behavior Workflow orchestration Enterprise integrations Customer trust Engineering feedback loops This is: ❌ Not L1 / call-center support, ❌ Not a “just escalate to engineering” role, ❌ Not reactive firefighting only This is : A senior technical escal

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is embarking on a major 3-year transformation to simplify, modernise, and unify its technology platforms across the group. This change is critical to: Enable cost-effective transformation and operational efficiency Accelerate adoption of AI, data, and digital platforms Ensure consistent delivery of value and benefits across all agencies and markets Minimise disruption and maximise engagement during large-scale change Workday is a cornerstone of this transformation, providing a single, modern system of record for people data and for driving efficiency through our operations and finance functions. By standardising core processes, improving data quality and enabling better insights, Workday supports consistent ways of working, stronger governance and future‑ready capabilities, while creating the foundation for scalable change, automation and AI‑enabled decision making across WPP. We are looking for a Workday Global HCM Support Lead with strong experience in leading a global technology support function. The purpose of the role is to deliver a high-quality support service to our key s

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: As part of WPPs Elevate28 strategy, we are accelerating a major Finance Technology transformation to simplify, modernise and standardise the platforms, data and processes that underpin G lobal F inance. This portfolio is critical to statutory reporting, management reporting, forecasting, planning, control, performance management , compliance, and executive decision-making. The Global Programme Director - Finance Technology will shape, govern and drive WPP’s global Finance Technology transformation portfolio. This senior enterprise leadership role turns a complex, multi-year agenda into a coherent roadmap that simplifies the finance technology estate, strengthens control and resilience, and enables faster, more trusted business insight. The role spans Finance ERP standardisation, consolidation platform replacement, enterprise performance management, revenue forecasting, analytics, finance data foundations and operating model change. It will work across Group Finance, Enterprise Technology, agencies, markets, regions and deliver

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Vice President, Finance Business Partner, Payment Networks The Vice President, Finance Business Partner -- Payment Networks at Mastercard will be a senior finance leader and strategic business partner in the Payment Networks Organization, providing leadership across business strategy, growth priorities, financiak planning, performance management, investment prioritization, and decision support. This VP will lead a finance team within Payment Networks responsible for real time payments (RTP) – across international markets and RTP global products and engineering -- requiring effective business partnering and translating business, product, engineering, and regulatory requirements into financial insights, actionable plans, and executive-ready recommendations. This role partners closely with Business teams, Product, Engineering, regional and Corporate Finance, People & Capability and Controllership teams to ensure financial outcomes are aligned with organizational goals, governance expectations, and Mastercard’s strategy. The ideal candidate is a strategic finance leader with strong business judgment, executive presence, and the ability to lead through ambiguity in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment. Responsibilities: • Lead Finance Business Partner agenda for Payment Networks, RTP (ex-Uk) as a se

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About Yondr Yondr is a disruptor. We challenge convention and simplify complexity. A global developer, owner operator and service provider of data centers, we deliver complex data center capacity needs for the world’s largest tech companies. Our exponential growth sees us looking for extraordinary people to help accelerate us towards our vision: a tomorrow without constraints. But we can’t do this without you. About the Role The Treasury Accountant is a new role created in a growing Treasury function, responsible for several key processes within Finance. Working with the wider Treasury team, you will analyse Group-wide data, cash flows, oversee intercompany balance (loans, equity) and the documentation thereof, accounting for external debt and implement Finance-wide processes to work towards the continuous improvement of these workstreams, to ensure compliance between our intercompany balances and external facilities. As such, this role involves building relationships and credibility with numerous internal and external stakeholders in a dynamic environment. We have numerous external debt facilities, and over time, this role will acquire responsibilities for various aspects of IFRS 9 accounting, including accounting for interest calculations, utilisations & repayments, new debt & refinancings, and technical hedge accounting and documentation. Main Responsibilities Ownership over intercompany accounting and balances Project managing, whilst working with Finance, Tax and Compliance colleagues, the documenting of intercompany balances Accounting for External debt facilities, including drawdowns, repayments, interest accruals, debt- servicing. Accounting for external hedge relationships Ensuring compliance of

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About Yondr Yondr is a disruptor. We challenge convention and simplify complexity. A global developer, owner operator and service provider of data centers, we deliver complex data center capacity needs for the world’s largest tech companies. Our exponential growth sees us looking for extraordinary people to help accelerate us towards our vision: a tomorrow without constraints. But we can’t do this without you. About the Role A very exciting opportunity for a finance role within the business. The role will provide support in relation to end to end responsibility for operating companies (“OpCos”), including financial reporting and analysis across the business. Main Responsibilities / Perform all related accounting functions associated with OpCos, including account reconciliation and financial statements / Perform monthly variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements / Ensure the accounting policy applied is correct for all entities and consistent per the Group Reporting framework. / Manage various third parties, including auditors and outsourced services. / Interface and collaborate with other departments on monthly draws, cash management, tax filings, along with other items. / Supporting the Group OpCo Financial Controller with any activities as required. / Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports / Actively be visible to the group functions, acting as the go-to contact for the OpCos / Ensure OpCos adhere to the Group Operating Model, including compliance with transfer pricing policies and governance requirements / Act as a key business partner across Finance and the wider organisation to deliver accurate financial reporting, support decision-making and drive process improvements Qualifications and experience / Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CA) / 3-4+ experience of working in a finance role / Strong presentation, analytical skills, p

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About Yondr Yondr is a disruptor. We challenge convention and simplify complexity. A global developer, owner operator and service provider of data centers, we deliver complex data center capacity needs for the world’s largest tech companies. Our exponential growth sees us looking for extraordinary people to help accelerate us towards our vision: a tomorrow without constraints. But we can’t do this without you. About the Role With continued growth across our business, we are actively seeking to have a new member join our team. This is an exciting role to join an existing group of skilled development and investment professionals, enhancing the team capabilities and becoming an integral part of a rapidly growing business. We are searching for someone who has excellent quantitative and analytical skills, is comfortable building financial models and has experience with communicating with internal and external stakeholders. You will be a highly valued and trusted member of our ambitious and hardworking team, in a business that continues to scale to new heights. Main Responsibilities / Take responsibility for development and management of financial models and valuation analysis in support of potential transactions and investment opportunities / Support in all aspects of financing processes included due diligence, project management, data room management, financial analysis, legal negotiations and preparation of materials / Work closely with the Development and Finance teams to perform detailed financial analysis on new developments as well as existing portfolio assets / Production of presentation material for senior management, board members, investors, lenders and joint venture partners / Assist with commercial negotiation of legal contracts for transactions / Research and analysis of market trends and sector / asset valuations / Support in business strategy and individual project delivery /

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Managing Consultant, Services Business Development Mastercard Services is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge solutions that help our customers achieve their objectives. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, our services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, data-driver platforms and cyber security solutions. Mastercard Services comprises of a diverse and dynamic team of experts who enjoy working in a goal-oriented and collaborative culture. As a member of our sales team, you will be on the frontlines - building excitement and generating demand for our unique services - while partnering with solutions experts to achieve the desired end. All about the role: Mission • Are you motivated by developing new insights into issues and developing recommendations that add real value to clients? • Can you develop strategies and programs for local, regional and global clients? • Do you want to play a key role in driving a world beyond cash? Key responsibilities include: • Identification of client’s pain points, root causes and potential solutions • Ownership of the sales process from prospecting to writing well-structured and persuasive proposals • End-to-end ownership of contract execution and coor

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Manager, Program Manager - Corporate Solutions Mastercard Corporate Solutions is shaping the future of commercial payments by building innovative products, platforms, and partnerships that help businesses move money smarter, faster, and more securely. The Product Governance & Launch Center of Excellence serves as the strategic execution engine for Corporate Solutions. The team drives alignment, governance, commercialization readiness, and measurable business impact across a portfolio of high-priority global initiatives. We are seeking a high-performing PMO Manager to support the governance and execution of strategic product programs across Corporate Solutions. This individual will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Commercialization, Regional Product, and Business Development teams to translate strategy into clear execution plans, drive accountability, and ensure programs deliver against defined business outcomes. The ideal candidate is a strategic operator who brings structure to ambiguity, drives disciplined execution, communicates with clarity, and influences outcomes across a complex global organization. This role requires strong business judgment, analytical rigor, executive presence, and the ability to operate independently. You will help drive high-impact initiatives that support produ

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Senior Director, Programme Management Location: London Reporting to: Global Senior Director, Strategic Programmes Why We Are Hiring: WPP’s Data & Technology Solutions (DTS) is WPP’s global data products and technology team. We partner with our agencies and clients to create data-driven solutions and technology products that power marketing transformation. At the heart of this is WPP Open , our AI-powered marketing platform that brings together people, data, tools and AI to help deliver better outcomes for clients. We're looking for a Senior Director, Programme Management to join our Strategic Programmes team and help deliver some of DTS's most important initiatives. This is an opportunity to work across a wide range of programmes, bringing together teams, stakeholders and capabilities from across the business to deliver meaningful change. You'll play a key role in turning priorities into action, helping teams stay aligned, navigate challenges and deliver successful outcomes. You'll enjoy building relationships and bringing clarity to complex

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. Are you excited by the opportunity to be part of a dynamic trading environment that values teamwork and collaboration? Do you thrive in an innovative atmosphere? If so, we encourage you to consider Chicago Trading Company! The Role The Quant Trading Associate (QTA) role is our entry-level position within our Trading and Quant organization and gives you broad exposure to the whole business as you work towards graduating from the Associate Program and assuming a role as a Quant Trader or Quant Researcher. As a QTA, you will work in a high-impact role as a member of a trading or quantitative team. You will play a vital part in identifying trading opportunities and impacting your team through dynamic problem solving — including trade execution, strategy formulation, back-testing, data analysis, and the modeling and pricing of traded financial derivatives — while communicating with traders, risk managers, software engineers, and quants throughout the trading day. You will learn all aspects of the trading and quant operation and work towards a role that generates trading revenue or drives strategy development for the team. In addition to the

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. The Role As a Quant Trading (QT) Intern, you will be challenged to learn and adapt in an exciting team environment and will play a substantial role in our day-to-day trading and quant-related activities. Your impact is immediate and meaningful. You will become a member of a team for the summer and play a vital role completing project work and/or identifying trading opportunities and communicating with software engineers, quants, traders, and risk managers throughout the trading day. As part of the Summer Associate cohort, you will learn and socialize alongside other QT Interns and Software Engineering (SE) Interns. What to Expect The 8-week internship program gives you insight into our culture and an inward look into what our business is all about. You will participate in three classroom learning experiences including: a week-long Basics of Options class, a multi-week class on the fundamentals of market making (Mock Trading), and a multi-week class that introduces elements of our quant framework (Quant Curriculum). You will also attend planned social activities and talks from various business leaders to propel your professional growth

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: We are looking for a commercially minded finance professional to play a key role in the timely and accurate delivery of monthly management accounts for the Infosum legal entities within the wider WPP EMEA Group. This position is responsible for providing insightful variance analysis, exception reporting, and ensuring robust financial reporting that supports effective business decision-making. Working closely with the Infosum's junior management accountant, you will collaborate on Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and SAP BFC reporting processes while also contributing to initiatives that drive greater efficiency, improve controls, and enhance ways of working across both the finance function and the wider business. Success in this role requires strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build effective relationships across multiple teams and levels of seniority. You will partner closely with colleagues across Finance and the business, helping to ensure the delivery of high-quality financial information and supporting key strategic objectives. This role

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