Personal Finance Expert

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Personal Finance Expert looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing, and passionate about helping you reach your potential. Let’s grow together …

What you’ll be doing

• As our Personal Finance Expert, you will act as the face and voice of our savings proposition, providing expert insights on personal finance, savings and money management to a wide audience, including financial, consumer and broadcast media, showcasing us as an expert on the sector, positioning us as a trusted and engaged voice and raising awareness of our proposition
• You will be contributing compelling content across our paid, earned, second and owned channels, engaging our audience and helping them improve their money management
• You will serve as the primary spokesperson for our savings proposition across traditional and broadcast media, including TV, radio, podcasts and online platforms
• You will build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, influencers and industry stakeholders to build our profile as a trusted voice
• You will also build our profile across a broad range of consumer and lifestyle media through interesting and insightful feature pitches that address various elements of consumer lives

What you’ll bring to the team

• Proven experience as a personal finance expert, journalist or spokesperson in the financial sector
• Strong knowledge of UK financial products, savings tools and economic policies
• The ability to speak with experience speaking to diverse audiences
• Confidence and charisma in media appearances, with the ability to explain complex financial concepts in an accessible way
• A strong network within the media and personal finance communities is highly desirable

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply. 

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

Working hours

This role can be based in either Solihull or London (requirement to spend two days per month in Solihull is required). This is a hybrid role with an expected minimum of two days in the office. 37.5 hours per week.

Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone.  If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave

• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
• Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.