Intern/One Year Placement – Newbury – 15K
Closing Date: 26th February 2016 (skype interviews throughout Jan/Feb)
Starting Date: 1st July 2016 (flexible)

We require an ambitious, bright individual to join our rapidly expanding business and be part of our talented team delivering cutting edge finance solutions. Reporting to the Head of Sales and Marketing, the Technical Account Manager works closely with both our sales and development teams to provide exceptional technical support to both new and existing customers.

This role requires strong project management skills and a high standard of verbal and written communication. You must be a highly organised and proactive individual; capable of forming strong, positive relationships with clients. You will enjoy being challenged by finding solutions to complex problems. You must be numerically articulate, with a keen eye for detail.

You will be part of a team responsible for key deliverables across all stages of a customer’s project lifecycle, including:
-Gathering and analysing customer requirements and defining solutions
-Monitoring the design, implementation and coordination of client projects
-Configuring and testing systems to meet requirements
-Supporting customers through user acceptance testing
-Providing on-going ‘help-desk style’ support and delegation of support tickets
-Identifying any training/knowledge needs for customers

This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly expanding company with a busy, but relaxed atmosphere. Working from newly refurbished offices in Newbury you will have the opportunity to work with small teams across all levels in the organisation. The role enables you to make a real difference to our customers and current team members strongly value the immediate results and impact their work has. This role may lead to a permanent position post degree completion.

To apply for this position, please send your CV and a brief letter of application with the reference TAM–Intern–2016 to: jobs@sword-mobile.com

Full time – Newbury
Closing Date: 26th February 2016 (skype interviews throughout Jan/Feb)
Starting Date: 1st July 2016 (flexible)

We are looking for two bright and highly motivated software developers to join our rapidly expanding business and be part of our talented development team delivering cutting edge finance applications that run on desktop and mobile devices. You will be involved in full software lifecycle development from analysis and design through to development, testing and deployment.

Daily responsibilities of the role are varied and will include working on projects developing entirely new areas of functionality, enhancing existing functionality, bug fixing, maintenance and supporting customers resolving issues. You should be ambitious, a self-starter and have a strong interest in mobile and web technologies.

Some of the technologies that we use day to day:
-Microsoft .NET
-JavaScript
-SQL Server

Essential skills:
-Strong problem solving skills and an eye for detail
-Ability to work under your own initiative and as part of a team
-Confident interfacing with customers as well as internal business and support teams
-A high standard of verbal and written English

This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly expanding company with a busy but relaxed atmosphere. Working from newly refurbished offices in Newbury we will provide you with full access to all the relevant tools and technology you need, including the latest smartphones and tablets. We are keen that all our employees get involved with courses and training to ensure they stay at the cutting edge of web and mobile development, and are happy to support and fund these as appropriate. Previous training days include jQuery UK and Edge Conference.

To apply for this position, please send your CV and a brief letter of application with the reference GRAD–Developer–2016 to: jobs@sword-mobile.com

Sword Mobile team before the race

Thursday saw the inaugral Sword Mobile Karting competition for the annual Christmas Do (in November).

It was a great day for all staff, especially our Lead Developer Harry Waters who stormed to a comfortable victory with a margin of 18 Seconds!

Full Results:
1. Harry Waters
2. Gareth Pugh
3. Martin Hitchcock
4. Will Davis
5. Harry Pilling
6. Tom Jones
7. Daniel Bell
8. Hugh Mahony
9. Phillip Candon
10. Dylan Bedford

Sword Mobile apps support the new Windows 10 Desktop

Sword Mobile continues to offer agile and responsive apps for the latest software developments. With the launch of Windows 10 and the Microsoft Edge browser, Sword Mobile are happy to announce that our apps are compatible with these new releases, as well as maintaining its support for older Windows Operating Systems.

Following the release of the new WI-FI printers such as the Epson Workforce WF-100W, we are excited to announce you can now print contract documents wirelessly without an internet connection from our lease finance pricing App. The printer is ideal for life on the road with a built in battery, this offers a truly mobile use be it out at a farm with a customer or back in the office at your desk.

Today, mobile printing typically involves a visit out to the printer sitting in your car boot, powering up your PC and then returning back to the customer with the printed doc. By contrast, wireless printing saves time and presents a truly professional image whilst still with customer.

Our pricing App allows a dealer to remotely generate a finance quotation with a customer, combine this with the new Epson printer and you can produce a contract document ready for a signature in minutes anywhere.

We require an ambitious, bright individual to join our rapidly expanding business and be part of our talented team delivering cutting edge finance apps for tablets and smartphones.

Reporting to the Head of Sales and Marketing you will be client focused with strong project management skills, therefore a high standard of verbal and written communication is essential alongside a desire to provide exceptional customer support. You will be highly organised, self-driven and have a passion for finding solutions to complex problems. You must be comfortable working with numbers and have excellent knowledge of excel. You must also enjoy working as part of a small team.

You will be responsible for key deliverables at all stages of a customer’s project lifecycle, including:
– Gathering and analysing customer requirements and defining solutions
– Monitoring the ongoing development work around a solution
– Interfacing between the customer and the business, technical and development teams
– Configuring and testing IT systems to meet requirements
– Providing on-going ‘help-desk style’ support
– Preparing user documentations and leading training workshops
– Creating and delivering presentations and product demonstrations for customers and at tradeshows.

This role enables you to make a real difference to our customers and current team members strongly value the immediate results and impact their work has.

This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly expanding company with a busy but relaxed atmosphere. Working from newly refurbished offices in Newbury we will provide you with access to all the relevant tools and technology you need to do your job, including the latest smartphones and tablets.

We have a flexible approach to work and don’t expect you to be office based all of the time; we only ask that you manage your own work schedule to be as productive as possible with your time.

To apply for this position, please send your CV and a brief letter of application to: jobs@sword-mobile.com

We are delighted to announce that our Sprint lease finance pricing app is now compatible with Windows Phones. These devices are a relatively new player to the mobile market with a global share of around 4% which is slowly increasing year on year. As more people switch to Windows we thought that now would be a great opportunity to add yet another platform to our portfolio. The recent release in software from windows 8 to 8.1 means that our Sprint lease finance pricing app now performs and looks better than ever.

Following a sustained period of rigorous preparation, Sword Mobile is happy to announce that it has achieved the prestigious ISO 27001:2013 Certificate of Registration. Securing customer’s information and in turn their customer’s information is of paramount importance in the asset finance sales aid pricing and mobile app origination industry. ISO 27001 gives lenders, captives and brokers the confidence that Sword Mobile operates an information security management system which has been assessed as conforming to the highest international standards.

Sword Group SE has acquired Mobile Productivity to complement its Commercial Asset Finance Business Unit ‘Sword Apak’ in a deal which creates a powerful synergy between the two industryleading finance technology organisations and strengthens Sword’s position in the highly competitive asset and auto finance industry.

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As the FCA takes over regulation of Consumer Credit they promise to improve accountability and transparency in the lending industry. Whilst it’s still not totally clear what the impact will be, MP is proposing some enhancements to Sprint which may be of benefit to your ability to demonstrate compliance. These areas are:

Summary screen and customer quote letter

Deals which fall within the bounds of a regulated contract may be highlighted as such in the Summary Screen, the Customer Quote letter and the Actions tab (App and Web). For a regulated agreement, this might generate an instruction to the dealer such as “Please read the statement about regulated contracts to your customer and please tick the box below to indicate that you have done so”.
The proposal may be prevented from proceeding if the box is not ticked. When the box is ticked, a record may be held with the proposal and a note added to the customer email or proposal.

Sales audit reports

A new Sprint report will focus on proposals which have been identified as regulated and provide a record of actions taken on those proposals. This should provide a very useful tool to demonstration compliance.

Next steps

Customers wishing to benefit from the above mentioned Sprint enhancements should contact Mobile Productivity to arrange for their Sprint system to be configured with the amendments required. Typically there is a charge associated with this work based on the time involved. Enquiries can be sent to hugh.mahony@mobileproductivity.com