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Chief of Staff – Strategy & Transformation
Join the institutional arm of a global fintech business operating at significant scale across international capital markets. This is a high-impact role working closely with the CEO to turn strategy into execution, accelerate growth and shape how the business scales.
Role Overview
- Location: London – hybrid, 3–4 days in the office
- Package: Up to £140,000 basic + bonus
- Industry: Fintech / Capital Markets / Prime Services
What You’ll Be Doing
- Partner directly with the CEO and senior leadership team to turn strategic priorities into clear, executable plans.
- Lead high-profile initiatives spanning growth, new product launches and business transformation.
- Own complex programmes from initial thinking and business case development through to implementation and measurable outcomes.
- Use market analysis, competitor insight, financial modelling and commercial data to support strategic decisions.
- Bring together product, technology, sales, legal and operations teams around shared priorities and delivery plans.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and structural challenges, then lead improvements that enable the business to scale effectively.
- Ensure product and technology roadmaps remain aligned with wider commercial goals and key dependencies.
- Partner with sales leadership on go-to-market plans, client coverage and opportunities to accelerate revenue growth.
- Build dashboards and performance frameworks that give leadership clear visibility of commercial KPIs and delivery.
- Establish effective governance across major initiatives, proactively managing risks, escalations and accountability.
- Coordinate annual and quarterly business planning, ensuring senior leaders have the analysis needed to make informed decisions.
- Produce concise, high-quality strategic materials for executive, Board and investor-level audiences.
- Support leadership meetings and offsites, ensuring decisions translate into action.
- Build strong relationships across the wider organisation to secure resources and support for key priorities.
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Main Skills Needed
- Around 3–6 years of relevant experience, ideally with a strong strategy consulting background at Manager level or equivalent.
- Experience within a leading strategy consultancy is highly desirable.
- Capital markets experience is essential, whether gained in consulting or directly within industry.
- Exposure to prime brokerage, prime services or related institutional financial markets would be particularly valuable.
- Strong track record across both strategy development and hands-on transformation delivery.
- Experience owning complex, cross-functional programmes involving senior stakeholders.
- Strong commercial and analytical capability, including financial modelling, business cases and performance analysis.
- Confidence working across commercial, operational, product and technology functions.
- Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics and produce clear recommendations.
- Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and challenging established ways of working.
- Able to operate autonomously, prioritise effectively and maintain momentum in an ambitious, fast-moving environment.
- Genuine interest in moving beyond advisory work into implementation, ownership and broader business leadership.
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What’s in It for You
- Up to £140,000 basic salary plus bonus.
- Sponsorship and relocation support available.
- Direct exposure to the CEO and senior leadership of a growing institutional capital markets business.
- Significant autonomy and ownership over strategically important initiatives.
- A strong platform for progressing towards broader commercial, operational or business leadership roles.
- Hybrid working, with 3–4 days per week in the London office.
- Flexible benefits package, private medical cover and life insurance.
- Contributions towards gym memberships.
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus your birthday off and two volunteering days.
- Option to buy or sell additional holiday.
- Tailored development, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave and pay.
- Opportunities to get involved with wider ESG and community initiatives.
Big plans. Big impact. Ready to be part of it?
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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