Strategy & Programme Manager

Job Description

Who we are:

At TrueLayer, we’re building a global open banking platform that’s changing how money moves and so much more. We make payments and refunds instant, account data accessible and verification seamless — all so innovators in every industry can build better financial experiences for their users.

To date, we’ve raised $270 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Addition and Tencent. We’ve got offices in London, Milan and Dublin. And we’re trusted by industry leaders like Revolut, Coinbase and Nutmeg… though we’re not stopping here.

Our vision is a financial system that works for everyone. To make that happen, we’re creating original and innovative products that will remove the friction from finance for good. We’re seriously scaling our infrastructure, we’re entering new areas all the time, we’re cornering a whole new category — and we’d like your support to get us there.

The Role:

TrueLayer’s Strategy & Corporate FInance team is responsible for facilitating the company's strategy development and translating priorities into objectives and key results (OKRs). The role will be primarily responsible for driving cross-functional programs as part of annual and semi-annual planning as well as ad hoc projects as needed to drive execution. The role is designed to be a high impact individual contributor working across both Strategy & Corporate Finance functions operating as a single team. This role will play a key role in scaling our business and working closely with our executives and leadership team to continuously challenge and set priorities.

If you have demonstrated experience in strategic planning and delivery in a fast-paced environment, have exceptional program/project management skills and strong analytical/data-driven mindset, have a bias for action and enjoy rolling up your sleeves to get things done, and want to unlock the potential of TrueLayer, we would be excited to hear from you.

As our Strategy & Programme Manager you will:

• Facilitate company’s strategy development and annual planning while driving cross-functional programs critical to strategy execution

• Leverage strong program/project management and communication skills to translate strategic objectives to effective execution plans with cross-functional partners.

• Apply strong business acumen across multiple disciplines to act as a trusted advisor to the business, and provide critical strategic insights/analysis to help them execute their plans

• Continuously refine the strategy development & annual planning process and methodology while collaborating with teams to sharpen their planning and tracking mechanism to ensure accountability

• Build and maintain strong relationships across a broad network of cross-functional partners ensuring clear and timely communication to diverse stakeholders

• Be an ambassador for promoting a result based culture and embedding data-driven ways of working

About you

• You have significant experience in areas such as strategy, management consulting, operations, project/program management - held roles such as Strategy & Operations, Business Operations, Chief of Staff, or Strategic Finance

• You are comfortable to navigate complexity - ideally you have been part of a rapidly growing, product/tech-led company

• You are an exceptional problem solver who is highly execution-driven. You enjoy breaking down complex challenges into actionable plans, applying your strategic/big-picture perspective

• You have excellent communication and relationship building skills to influence/collaborate with colleagues across all levels of the company

• You are comfortable to work across multiple disciplines including business strategy, finance, product, and commercial, and able to understand contexts that are critical to strategy planning and execution

• You have a strong affinity for numbers and live by an analytical approach in how you approach problems, plan execution and track impact

• You are able to deliver ad hoc analytical works that are critical to strategy planning and execution

• You are comfortable to prioritise multiple projects simultaneously under timelines and shifting priorities

• You enjoy rolling your sleeves up, and can deliver work under pressure with a keen eye for details

• You have a natural curiosity, are quick to learn new concepts and are excited to tackle difficult questions

Nice to haves:

• Knowledge of (or experience in) the payments industry
• Experience in a financial regulatory environment

What you can expect from us:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company 💰
• Flexible hours and hybrid working — work from home 🏡 and our incredible offices in London 🇬🇧 Milan 🇮🇹 and Dublin 🇮🇪
• A remote-working budget to help you set up your home office 💺
• Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard ✈️
• Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure 👩‍👩‍👧
• Enhanced pension contribution at 4% & 4% 👵🏽 👴🏽
• Private health insurance from the day you start 🧑🏽‍⚕️
• 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year (on top of the holiday allowance) 🕊️
• Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill and Calm 🧘🏽‍♀️
• A budget to spend on learning & development each year 📚

At TrueLayer, we don’t just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups (e.g. people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from all socio-economic backgrounds). If you’d like to discuss alternative working patterns, please let us know.

We will always aim to make appropriate adjustments to ensure we are fully inclusive to people with different needs during our interview process. So if you need us to make any adjustments to suit your individual needs please let us know - we’ll be happy to support you.