🏷️ Title: Strategy & Finance Manager

👫 Department: Finance

💰 Salary: £60-70k (dependent on experience)

🎁 Benefits & Culture: See here

📈 Equity: A very generous EMI share offering

🌴 Holiday: 26 days + bank holidays

💗 Mission: Elevate later life for everybody and build the care sector of the future

💻 Office Policy: Hybrid with a minimum of 2 core office days per week

🌍 Office Location: London Bridge, London, UK

🔍 The Opportunity:

Having quickly grown to be the UK’s no. 1 care marketplace and operating software, Lottie is looking to hire an ambitious and hands-on Strategy & Finance Manager. You will report directly to Lottie’s Finance Director and will be given high autonomy to build out a Strategy & Finance function from the ground up.

💻 What does this role involve?

• Financial Planning & Analysis: Own the budgeting and forecasting processes, providing clear and actionable insights that shape strategic and commercial decisions.

• Business Partnering: Become the trusted finance partner to department heads, particularly the Chief Revenue Officer. Support investment decisions, preparation for board meetings, new market analysis and unit economics optimisation.

• Commercial & Unit Economics: Lead analysis on pricing, customer economics and cost optimisation initiatives across the business

💪 What problems will you be solving?

• Creating a Best-in-Class Strategic Finance: Play a key role in building out the function, including designing the tech stack from scratch and improving the planning cycles.

• Business Partnering Transformation: Define how finance supports and challenges the wider business.

• Decision Frameworks: Create the models and narratives that actually drive how leadership evaluates opportunities and performance.

• Scaling Reporting & Insights: Build the dashboards and analytical infrastructure needed as we scale.

• Amongst many others!

👀 We think you’ll be a great fit if you…

• Have 4-5 years experience, ideally with a combination of strategy consulting and an in-house strategic finance role at a high-growth company.

• Display strong analytical and modelling skills with the ability to confidently present insights to senior leadership and investors.

• Demonstrate strong business partnering skills, with the ability to challenge department heads and earn their trust.

• Value autonomy, with the ability to drive impactful improvements independently.

• Confident in data analysis (SQL, building out dashboards, etc.)

Sound like you but not quite 100%? Apply anyway - we're looking for potential and passion, not perfect CV match

💔 This role isn’t for you if you…

• Aren’t passionate about elevating later life for everybody – our mission is at the heart of everything we do.

• Prefer a highly structured environment with pre-defined solutions; we thrive on autonomy and proactive problem-solving.

• Aren’t comfortable handling large data sets and using data to drive actionable insights

• Don’t enjoy collaborating closely with other teams like Commercial, Marketing and Data Analytics

🔢 Lottie’s Interview Process

1. Screening interview led by Lottie’s Talent Acquisition Lead.

2. First round interview led by Hiring Manager.

3. Technical assessment interview with Hiring Manager and one member of Lottie’s Senior Management Team.

4. Final interview with Will Donnelly (Lottie’s Co-Founder & CEO).

🤩 Candidate Experience: The majority of feedback will be given via email and we try our very best to give specific and constructive feedback where possible.

• Pre-Screen & First Interview: You'll receive an email notification, but no specific feedback will be provided at this stage.

• Hiring Manager Interview: If you are unsuccessful after this interview, you will receive constructive feedback via email.

• Case Study: If you are not successful after the case study, you'll receive constructive feedback via email and be offered a debrief call with our Talent Lead.

• Final Interview: For final-stage candidates who are not offered the role, we will provide your feedback live via a phone call.

🚀 Meet Lottie

Founded in London in July 2021, Lottie is a fast growth HealthTech start-up aiming to build the world’s first SaaS enabled marketplace for care and with a goal of allowing families to seamlessly book care online in a similar manner to reserving a holiday stay via Airbnb or Expedia.

Since launching in July 2021, Lottie has supported millions of care seekers find the right care for loved ones and has raised over £25m from leading venture capital funds including Accel, General Catalyst and Kindred, as well as from well known technology entrepreneurs including Mike Hudack (ex-CPTO of Deliveroo & Monzo) and Tom Blomfield (ex-CEO of Monzo Bank). More recently, Lottie was the acclaimed winner of LinkedIn and Startup.co.uk Top Startup awards.

As of today, Lottie offers three core products and services, including:

• Lottie (B2B2C Marketplace) - Free service that helps families find the UK’s best care homes and home care services.

• Found by Lottie (B2B Vertical SaaS) - AI-native OS software supporting care providers to effectively manage their enquiries, occupancy and finances.

• Seniorcare by Lottie (B2B Vertical SaaS) - Employee benefit helping companies deliver outstanding eldercare support to their employees.

🤩 Why Lottie?

• Career Opportunity - A career defining opportunity to lead the finance operations function into the next stage of growth at Lottie.

• Early Hire Benefits - Be an early hire at one of the UK’s fastest growing startups and benefit from fast career progression, as well as a generous stock options package.

• Mission - Tech for good that aims to build the care industry of the future and to positively impact millions of people's lives. Care is one of the final remaining large consumer industries that is yet to be disrupted and positively revolutionised by technology.

• Investors - Series A backed startup having raised £25m+ from tier 1 venture capital investors including Accel and General Catalyst.

• Global Opportunity & Scalability - Be part of a company that is solving a real tangible problem that every family around the world faces at some point in their life.

• People - Join a kind, talented and mission driven team that loves coming to work every day.

• Culture - Excellent employee compensation/benefits, hybrid office policy and outstanding company culture with a 5/5 employee review score on Glassdoor.

• Award Winning - Acclaimed winner of LinkedIn’s 2024 “Top Startups” and named “the UK’s number one startup for 2025” in Startup.co.uk 100 Index.

We want to create an inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our people whilst enabling them to do the best work of their careers. We are committed to ensuring that all our people processes are equitable. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

If you require reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know at alice.rooke@lottie.org.

Compensation Range: £60K - £70K