YouLend is a rapidly growing FinTech that serves as an embedded financing platform for leading e-commerce platforms and tech companies. As a Strategy Analyst, you will support commercial forecasting and partner-level pricing, build analytical infrastructure, and provide insights that directly influence partner strategy and commercial performance.
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
- 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
- Python preferred, though experience with other analytical languages also valued
Benefits
- Stock options
- Private Medical Insurance (via Vitality)
- EAP with Health Assured
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Great office space (including a gym!) in Central London
- Subsidised lunch (via Feedr)
- Deliveroo allowance if working late in the office
- Monthly in-office masseuse
- Team and Company socials
- Sports clubs
Company Overview
YouLend is the leading global embedded financing platform for the world’s top e-commerce platforms, tech companies and PSPs. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://youlend.com/.