10 UK fintech businesses with outstanding employee benefits

We’re really impressed by these UK fintech businesses which are leading the way when it comes to offering imaginative, useful and attractive perks. Most of these companies are already offering the employee benefits you would expect, such as Group Life Insurance and Group Health Insurance. So here, we mainly focus on those additional perks which add extra ‘wow factor’ to the benefits roster.

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Monzo

Monzo is an online bank with over 4 million customers. Since it was founded in 2015, Monzo has created one of the most downloaded financial service apps in the UK and grown their business from a financial app developer, into one of the most widely used online banks in the country.

Some of Monzo’s most enticing employee benefits include:

• Proactive pay rises & bi-annual salary reviews
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year
• Season ticket loans from Commuter Club
• 52 weeks of primary caregiver leave
• Discounts on subscriptions to the Headspace meditation app

Zego

Zego is an ‘insurtech’ startup business based in the UK. After starting out providing motorbike insurance policies for drivers in the gig economy, Zego has expanded its customer base by integrating with Deliveroo and Uber Eats, offering vehicle insurance for all its drivers.

A few of Zego’s more interesting benefits include:

• Competitive salary packages & stock options
• Home working equipment
• Career coaching
• Therapeutic coaching sessions with Blackwood Consultants
• 24 weeks of fully paid leave for maternity or primary carers

Soldo

Soldo is a software company that develops digital tools to help businesses manage their expenses. From its beginnings as a relatively small business, Soldo has grown significantly, helping over 26,000 businesses throughout Europe to improve their financial efficiency via its software.

Soldo offers some extremely useful perks for their employees, including:

• £500 development allowance
• Regular salary reviews
• Soldo card for business expenses
• Cycle to work scheme
• Frequent team building events

Onfido

Onfido is a tech company that provides a verification service to determine the legitimacy of government issued IDs using AI algorithms. The tool can be accessed from a computer, or a mobile device and is commonly used to help businesses prove the identity of a user in a quick and efficient manner.

Onfido offers an impressive array of employee benefits, including:

• Onfido Balance, a benefits platform with numerous health perks
• Exercise & wellbeing subsidies
• Equity offerings for all employees
• Library of books & software for employee development
• Team learning initiatives

Wise

Wise, formerly known as TransferWise, is a fintech company that provides currency exchange services. Wise have won several awards and recognitions for its employee benefits, such as Instar Attractive Employer 2019.

Some of those award-winning benefits include:

• After 4 years of service, employees are granted a bonus of £1,000
• Annual company-wide trip to Estonia
• Enhanced pension contributions of up to 5%
• Funding for sporting events and cultural clubs
• 26 weeks of full paid maternity leave & 13 weeks partially paid

Thought Machine

Thought Machine is a tech company that develops core banking software in the UK. The company’s most popular product is a service named Vault, which uses cloud-based technology to help banks with running their online infrastructure, while also providing an extra layer of IT security.

Thought Machine’s most attractive benefits include:

• Health cash plan with dental & optical inclusions
• On-site gym with membership paid for
• Memberships for sports or hobby clubs
• Monthly social events with arcade games
• Free snacks, drinks, fruit & cereal

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Freetrade

Freetrade is an award-winning investment app with over 800,000 users. The app provides a commission-free stock trading service, which is designed to be as simple and efficient as possible, in order to make the stock market more accessible for the average user.

There are several enticing employee benefits offered by Freetrade, including:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Travel insurance with family inclusions
• Free Macbook & headphones
• Access to a Plus account on the Freetrade app
• Regular team lunches in London

Azimo

Founded in 2012, Azimo is a currency transfer service with over half a million users worldwide. Azimo’s app for IOS and Android enables users to exchange finances from over 200 different countries, with more than 80 individual currencies.

Azimo provides its employees with some unique benefits, including:

• Employee Assistance Programmes
• Free language classes
• Generous referral bonuses
• Days off work for charity volunteering
• Donations to charities chosen by employees

iwoca

iwoca is a London based fintech company that has provided over £1 billion to more than 30,000 businesses in the UK. The company offers flexible loans for small businesses, using its innovative lending software to provide customers with simple applications and fast responses.

Some of iwoca’s most impressive employee perks include:

• One week working in holiday locations such as Sicily
• Access to mental health support services with Spill
• Workplace nursery tax benefit scheme
• Company-wide talks & seminars
• Unlimited unpaid leave

Sonovate

Sonovate is a software developer in the UK which specialises in providing invoice finance tools and services, primarily for recruitment agencies. Its software can help with managing the recruitment of the many employees that these agencies oversee, among many other uses.

A few of their most interesting benefits include:

• Fully remote working options
• Techscheme with Apple & Currys PC World for remote work equipment
• 50% discounts on gym memberships
• 50% off a variety of paid apps including Audible, Calm & Duolingo
• Eye care vouchers from Specsavers

How to find the best employee benefits

Hooray Health & Protection are a skilled and dependable team of insurance experts, with a wide array of experience working with all kinds of different businesses to procure attractive and affordable employee benefits packages.

Whether you’re looking for help piecing together an enticing and cost-efficient employee benefits scheme, or just have a few queries, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team.