Finastra – Leading Fin-tech Company, 3rd place worldwide

Formed in 2017, by the combination of Misys and D+H, Finastra builds and deploys innovative, next-generation technology on our open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem. Our scale and geographical reach means that we can serve customers effectively, regardless of their size or location—from global financial institutions to community banks and credit unions. We bring deep expertise and an unrivaled range of pre-integrated solutions spanning retail banking, transaction banking, lending, and treasury and capital markets.

What is Finastra’s priority?

“The openness for innovation is one of our biggest priority, either if we are talking about the used technology or our solutions. For this we want to bring in our company the most talented candidates from IT industry. Agility, flexibility and passion for technology are our core characteristics at a global level.” – Daniel Paunica, Senior Development Director
 

What are the values that guide us?

Company Culture reflects our shared values, beliefs, and norms that influence our behaviors and how we work together to achieve our strategy and goals.

Our Company Values are: Put Customer First – we are helping our customer succeed by putting them at the center of everything we do, Foster Collaboration – we are working with colleagues across organization to drive results and celebrate success, Take Ownership – we are accountable and empowered to deliver the right outcomes, Be Open – we are transparent and open, Ignite Innovation – we challenge the status quo and drive innovation.

How the Bucharest’s office is being structured?

In Bucharest we have a R&D center of excellence, one of the biggest in Europe and here we have the following teams: Software Development, Software Testing, Product Management, Pre-Sales, Customer Support & Implementation for clients, Global Services, General Administration (HR, Finance, Facilities). Currently, Finastra has over 9000 clients in more than 130 countries from United States of America, Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

What are the open roles @ Finastra?

At this moment we are mainly looking for talented and passionate people for the Development Department (with C++, C#, Java knowledge) and Testing & Customer Support Departments (Functional – with financial background, and Technical). Usually we are looking for candidates with experience in financial industry for roles like business analyst, technical writers, product managers, etc. and of course with IT knowledge in different areas or programming languages/technologies.

We are also offering career opportunities to students and young graduates, as a proof for this we are currently recruiting for junior roles and internship program in our Customer Support and Sales Department. All our vacancies are available on our career portal.

What’s the recruitment process @ Finastra?

For us, it is important to create an experience for our candidates, not just a recruitment process.
We want to have a pleasant recruitment process and provide feedback to our candidates as soon as possible.
The recruitment process might vary from one role to another, but we mainly have three stages: an online evaluation, a HR discussion (face-to-face or telephone), and a technical and business interview (for top roles we have more technical discussions).
Following the recruitment process, we match the best candidates with our open roles and start a journey together in innovation.

What are the benefits for Finastra’s employees?

In Finastra, every employee is encouraged to participate to various trainings and development programs, has the possibility to travel or to work in other Finastra’s offices and to fulfill a career path. On the benefits list we can add the conventional elements like medical & life insurance, meal tickets, annual bonus in line with the career level and the employee performance, gym discounts and a lot more.We are also focusing a lot on having a great working atmosphere and the fun activities, competitions, innovative hackathons are playing an important role into it.

As we are also offering great opportunities for students and young professional, we can consider to be a great advantage Finastra’s location, near the most important universities from Bucharest.

CSR @ Finastra

Finastra places social responsibility at the heart of its culture, bringing people and technology together through financial inclusion, investment in youth and open innovation.

Finastra encourages its employees to volunteer their time and participate in programs we have created for them to enact positive social change. Our main program is the ‘Hour of Code’ from Code.org, which was facilitated by our parent company Vista Equity Partners. The program enables each member of our 4,500+ R&D workforce to take time out to run coding clubs for children and teach software development to less privileged members of society.

See you at our booth on 26-27th of October, at Sala Palatului.