Strategy Analyst

AI in this role

As a Strategy Analyst in the commercial team, you'll work across commercial forecasting and partner-level pricing for growth optimisation. You'll build and maintain the models, dashboards, and analytical infrastructure that underpin how we plan, track, and improve commercial performance. Your analysis and recommendations will directly inform partner strategy, pricing decisions, and performance management across Commercial, Risk, Capital Markets, Operations, Partnerships, and Product. This role is ideal for someone who wants to build systems, not just run analyses - and who is excited by seeing their work directly shape commercial outcomes.

Annual salary: £42,000 - £54,000 OTE

Key Responsibilities

Support the production and continuous improvement of commercial forecasts - inputs, outputs, scenarios, tracking, and variance analysis
Build and maintain dashboards, self-serve data infrastructure and tools (e.g. in Metabase) used across Commercial, Risk, Ops, and Capital Markets Produce driver breakdowns and structured performance summaries (leads, conversion, funded amount, mix)
Run monthly recalibration and variance decomposition to explain under and overperformance
Identify weaknesses in forecasting and implement improvements to modelling, input structures, and processes
Analyse partner performance and pricing dynamics for growth opportunities
Size the impact of pricing to optimise for commercial changes
Support the development of structured commercial proposals and pricing recommendations
Track commercial levers (expected vs actual impact) and run retrospectives on implemented changes
Monitor partner performance post-change and flag opportunities or issues
Improve data structures to reduce manual work, duplication, and ad-hoc requests
Make recommendations that guide partner strategy and commercial decisions across teams

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Interest in fintech, lending, and commercial strategy
1-3 years of experience in an analytical, data, or commercially oriented role - or a strong graduate with relevant quantitative experience (e.g. coding in Python, R, Stata, or SQL)
Strong SQL capability (required) and modelling skills in Excel; Python preferred, though experience with other analytical languages also valued
Ability to build from scratch: models, dashboards, analyses - not just work with existing outputs
Clear, structured written communication: able to translate analysis into insight and recommendations
High ownership mindset: you follow through and take responsibility for your outputs
Comfortable working with ambiguity and bringing structure where processes are not yet fully defined
Proactive: you look for improvements, not just instructions
Curious about commercial outcomes, not just the numbers behind them
A team-first mindset: collaborative and willing to work across teams to get things right

How we rate this

Strategy Analyst at YouLend rates 33 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.