Automation Assistant

Cardiff - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What youll do

Youll join our Agentics Centre of Excellence and help teams across the Group automate their busywork so they can focus their time on what matters to our customers.

Day to day youll:

Become a goto practitioner for RPA and tools like Microsoft Power Automate.
Map how work gets done today then reengineer processes to make them faster more reliable and easier to run.
Enable selfserve workflows for colleagues (without heavy IT builds) and know when to bring in IT for bigger solutions.
Contribute to a standardised approach for when to use agentic solutions vs. bespoke tech builds.

What youll learn

Handson RPA delivery and lowcode automation with Power Automate.
Process mapping workflow orchestration and change delivery.
How automation at scale supports services finance and governance in a complex multientity group.

About you

This is an ideal role if youre excited by automation AI and problemsolving. Youre curious organised and comfortable talking to different teams. If youve played with Power Automate built a nocode workflow or streamlined a process either in the workplace or in any other useful setting we want to hear about it.

This role is an opportunity to take that passion for process improvement and move your career in that direction.

Why join Pobl

Realworld impact: your work helps colleagues deliver better faster services to customers across South Wales. Were a large organisation of nearly 3000 colleagues with a local impact in hundreds of communities in Wales.
Flexible working across Cardiff/Newport/Swansea with supportive leadership in Corporate Finance.
Career opportunities: With our scale it enables our colleagues to have career opportunities within the organisation with opportunities to progress and develop their skills.

What are the pay and benefits

Time off and Flexibility

Hybrid role based in Cardiff Newport or Swansea.
Working days are predominately Monday to Friday option to work compressed 9 day fortnight.
26 days holiday plus Bank holidays. Rising to 31 days with an extra day for each full year of service.
Maternity & Adoption Leave: 20 weeks.
Paternity Leave: 3 weeks.

Money and Pensions

The exact salary for this role is 23490.04 for a 37 hour 6 month fixed term position.
Pension Choices: Defined Contribution (DC) Scheme with matched contributions up to 10%. OrDefined Benefit (DB) 1/80^th of final salary for every year of service.
3 x Life Cover linked to pension membership
Saving scheme with competitive interest rate
Give As You Earn scheme for tax efficient charity donations
From 1^st April 2026 the option to be either weekly or monthly paid.

Your Wellbeing

Sick Payrising with length of service up to 6 months full pay after 4 years.
Eyecare: Up to 100 reimbursement towards eye tests and glasses.
Free counselling coaching wellbeing team and OH service to all colleagues
Annual Health Check
Health Cash Plan

Getting Around

Salary sacrifice Electric Vehicle Lease Scheme (subject to eligibility)
Cycle to Work Scheme

Your Development

Continuous professional training and development
Leadership development programmes
Professional memberships needed for your role are reimbursed
Career coaching
Support with funding and time for qualifications

Perks & Recognition

Long Service Awards
Blue Light Card Eligibility giving discounts at 15000 brands.
Colleague Discount platform.

FREDIE

At Pobl Group we are guided in all that we do by a group of principles that we call FREDIE these are: Fairness Respect Equality Diversity Inclusion Engagement. This means that whatever your background you will have an equal opportunity at Pobl Group and we encourage you to apply now.

How do you apply

If you have the skills experience and enthusiasm required to be our next difference maker please follow the prompts to apply now. We just need an up to date CV and for you to answer the question Think of a time when you made a process easier faster or more reliable. What did you do how did you do it and what happened as a result (200 words max)Well also need a few contact details so that we can get back in touch with you.

Closing date: Monday 5^th January at 9am

Shortlisting: Well be reviewing applications on the 5^th January

Interview dates: Thursday 8^th January in our Newport Head office.

If you would like any support with your application or to discuss any adjustments that you may require to support you to application process please contact or

Who are Pobl Group

Pobl is a leading provider of housing care and support services. Following our merger with Linc Cymru we have ambitious plans to grow and develop more affordable homes in the coming years. To make these plans a reality we need to ensure our investments are financially sound and strategically aligned.

Required Experience:

Junior IC

What youll doYoull join our Agentics Centre of Excellence and help teams across the Group automate their busywork so they can focus their time on what matters to our customers.Day to day youll:Become a goto practitioner for RPA and tools like Microsoft Power Automate.Map how work gets done today the...