Strategy & Operations Lead

Lenkie; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + options

Hybrid work

Career growth

Professional development

Team socials

Global impact

Job summary

Lenkie in London seeks a Strategy & Operations Lead to drive company-wide strategy and performance as we scale. You will translate strategy into clear priorities and lead cross-functional projects that shape how the business operates and grows.

As a senior team member, you will support fundraising efforts, deliver concise performance reporting, and collaborate with leadership to accelerate growth in a fast-paced fintech environment. Hybrid work with regular London presence.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, investment banking/private equity, or a related analytical role.
• Experience working within a financial services firm or a fintech startup is highly preferred.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Experience supporting fundraising processes (debt and/or equity) is a plus.
• Comfortable working with data and dashboarding/BI tools to translate data into insights.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex topics for senior leadership and investors.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working in a small, fast-paced team and a willingness to take ownership of diverse tasks.
• A passion for the fintech space and helping small businesses succeed.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning & Performance Management: Lead the company’s quarterly goal-setting process and track progress against key metrics.
• Fundraising & Investor Relations Support: Prepare financial models and data room materials and draft investor updates.
• Cross-Functional Strategic Projects: Lead high-priority initiatives across pricing, product, and partnerships.
• Business Performance & Reporting: Design and deliver leadership/ investor performance reports with actionable insights.
• Process Improvement: Identify inefficiencies and lead initiatives to redesign processes.
• Partnerships & Corporate Development: Evaluate and develop new commercial partnerships to support growth.

Skills

Strategy

Operations

Consulting

Private Equity

Financial Modelling

Fundraising

BI Tools

Cross-functional Leadership

Fintech

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Looker

Job description

At Lenkie, we're on a mission to help small businesses turn their bold ambitions into reality. Our lending products make access to capital faster, fairer, and more flexible, enabling SMEs to grow with confidence. We’ve provided hundreds of millions in funding to hundreds of UK businesses with our loan book growing 4x in 2025, and we’re just getting started.

We are a friendly and collaborative team with a fast-paced and high-performing culture, backed by top-tier investors. We are headquartered in London but with team members across Nigeria, South Africa and London.

About the job

We are seeking a strategic, analytical, and highly organized Strategy & Operations Lead to help drive company-wide strategy and performance as we scale. This is a broad, high-impact role that sits at the heart of the business, spanning strategic planning, leading cross-functional projects, and performance reporting.

As a senior member of the team, you will work closely with our leadership team and stakeholders across the business to translate company strategy into clear priorities, support our fundraising efforts, and lead high-priority projects that shape how the business operates and grows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning & Performance Management: Lead the company’s quarterly goal-setting process, working with team leads to define priorities and targets, and tracking progress against key business metrics throughout the quarter.
• Fundraising & Investor Relations Support: Support debt and equity fundraising processes, including preparing financial models and data room materials and drafting investor updates, and help manage relationships with prospective and existing funding partners.
• Cross-Functional Strategic Projects: Lead and coordinate high-priority strategic initiatives – spanning areas such as pricing, product, and partnerships – working closely with teams across the business to develop recommendations and drive execution.
• Business Performance & Reporting: Own the design and delivery of performance reporting for the leadership team and investors, translating operational and financial data into clear, actionable insights.
• Process Improvement: Identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement across the business, and lead initiatives to redesign processes and implement better ways of working.
• Partnerships & Corporate Development: Evaluate and help develop new commercial and strategic partnerships that support the company’s growth ambitions.

Qualifications/required skills

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, investment banking/private equity, or a related analytical role.
• Experience working within a financial services firm or a fintech startup is highly preferred.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Experience supporting fundraising processes (debt and/or equity) is a plus.
• Comfortable working with data and dashboarding/BI tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, or Looker) to translate data into insights.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex topics into clear insights for a range of audiences, including senior leadership and investors.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working in a small, fast-paced team and a willingness to take ownership of diverse tasks.
• A passion for the fintech space and helping small businesses succeed.

How we reward performance

• Competitive salary and employee stock options.
• Hybrid working environment, with 3 days per week in our London office.
• Opportunity to accelerate your career at a fast-growing startup.
• Professional development support to enhance your skills and career growth.
• Regular team and company socials.
• Opportunity to make a big impact in the lives of small business owners globally.

We’re building a diverse, inclusive and supportive team where everyone can do their best work. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and we do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.