Strategic Finance Lead, Lottie
£75-90k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office
A family's trusted guide to later life care
Be an early applicant
A family's trusted guide to later life care
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£75-90k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To elevate later life for everybody.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience, ideally with some combination of strategy consulting and in-house finance or commercial roles — though we're open on the exact mix
- A commercially sharp operator who has owned end-to-end business planning, forecasting, and performance management - with a proven ability to set ambitious targets and drive accountability across the organisation
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and executional levels - a hands-on in the detail leader who thrives in high-pressure, high-autonomy settings
- Display strong analytical and modelling skills with deep understanding of revenue dynamics, relevant business metrics and financial statements
- Demonstrate strong business partnering skills, with the ability to challenge department heads and earn their trust
- Problem solver and intensely outcome-driven, with a bias toward action, disciplined execution, and continuous performance improvement
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and align senior stakeholders around shared objectives and priorities
- A clear, confident communicator with high emotional intelligence and the ability to influence effectively at all levels, including the executive team and board
- Value autonomy, with the ability to drive impactful improvements independently
- You’re 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
What the job involves
- Having quickly grown to be the UK's no. 1 care marketplace and operating software, Lottie is looking to make its first Strategic Finance hire
- This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role sitting at the heart of commercial decision-making — you'll report directly to the Finance Director and work closely with the CEO on everything from board preparation to fundraising and M&A
- This isn't a traditional finance role
- You'll be the strategic finance partner to leadership, helping shape how the business evaluates opportunities, allocates resource, and drives performance
- You'll build the function from the ground up — the models, the frameworks, the reporting infrastructure — and have a direct line to the decisions that matter most
- Financial Planning & Analysis: Own the strategy planning, forecasting and reporting processes, providing clear and actionable insights that shape strategic and commercial decisions and drive accountability
- Business Partnering: Become the trusted finance partner to leadership, the commercial and product team. Support investment decisions, preparation for board meetings, new market analysis and unit economics optimisation
- Commercial & Unit Economics: Lead analysis on pricing, unit economics and cost optimisation initiatives across the business
- External & Strategic Matters - Lead and/or support the CEO on external matters such as: board meeting preparation, fundraising, investor relations, and M&A activity
- Creating a Best-in-Class Strategic Finance Function: 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 effectively challenges the wider business. Partner closely with functional leaders and products to improve decision-making, optimise P&L performance, and unlock new growth opportunities
- Decision Frameworks: Create the models and narratives that actually drive how leadership evaluates opportunities and performance
- Cost & Resource Efficiency - Implement robust cost and workforce management frameworks that provide transparency, accountability, and financial discipline across all teams, products, and regions
- Scaling Reporting & Insights: Work with our Data Analytics team to build the dashboards and analytical infrastructure needed as we scale
- Other - Amongst many other workstreams given the nature of a high growth startup!
Application process
- First round interview led by Hiring Manager
- Technical assessment interview with Hiring Manager and one member of Lottie’s Senior Management Team
- Final interview with Will Donnelly (Lottie’s Co-Founder & CEO)
- The majority of feedback will be given via email and we try our very best to give specific and constructive feedback where possible
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Choosing a care home is often a hugely daunting, complex, and expensive process, coming at a time that's already stressful enough. What's more, the UK's ageing population is growing at an increasing rate, putting more strain on social care than ever before. The result is that 44% of care seekers often ultimately regret their choice of care home, something that has had increasing attention since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lottie aims to address this in part by simplifying the process of finding the perfect care home for every individual's specific needs. Its online marketplace gives users all the tools to select and compare the UK's best-performing care homes, taking into account CQC reports, facilities, treatment methods, and location.
Having received investment, Lottie aims to continue its growth to reshape the future of the care industry. It is doing so with a strong emphasis on data and real-time information, collecting datasets that will be vital not just to its business operations, but potentially to the UK government and healthcare policy too.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2023
$21m
SERIES A
Jul 2022
$8.2m
SEED
Total funding: $33.3m
Company benefits
- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Everyone owns equity
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cashplan
- Wellness budget
- L&D budget
- A 3-night stay at Unplugged
- 2-weeks Work from anywhere
- 20-weeks full pay for Primary Parental Leave
- 8-weeks full pay for Secondary Parental Leave
- 2-weeks unpaid Carers Leave
- 5-days paid leave for those going through the IVF process
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- Compassionate Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Quarterly team events
Company values
- Ownership
- Impact
- Nimbleness
- Kindness
Company HQ
Bermondsey, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Will Donnelly
(Founder & CEO)Prior to Lottie, Will spent 5-years at CBRE where he advised on £2.5bn healthcare M&A deals, supported the NHS during COVID-19, and became an industry leading expert.
Julien Lavigne du Cadet
(CPTO)Before Lottie, Julien was CTO of Zoe where he was part of the leadership team that helped scale their products to millions and revenue from £0 to £100m ARR.
Laura Mahy
(VP Product)Laura started her tech career at Sainsbury's before becoming Deliveroo's first Product Manager. Following this, she's held leadership roles at Deliveroo, Habito and Zoe.
People progressing
Hannah joined Lottie as the company's first Care Expert (Customer Care) following spells in the charity and tech sectors. Since joining, Hannah has been promoted a number of times and is now the Customer Care Lead.
Ruby started as a 4-week Care Expert Intern during University, which was extended. After 1.5 years in the Care Expert team, Ruby moved over to the Marketing team to pursue her career in Social Media!
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lottie
Holly Leckenby Rye (Senior People Manager)
- Fostering an inclusive atmosphere where everyone feels valued and respected
- A wide range of inclusive benefits and policies
- Religious and cultural practices and holidays celebrated
- Job descriptions with inclusive language
- Quarterly anonymous employee engagement surveys
- Bias-free Performance Reviews with quantitive measures in place
- Employee Assistance Programmes
- A diverse social calendar to be inclusive of all employees
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