Description
Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology.
We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Senior Strategy Analyst to join our Strategy Team. This role is the operational backbone of our strategy, ensuring our long-term vision is translated into measurable execution.
The opportunity
You will partner closely with cross-functional teams (including Sales, Product, and Finance) to manage our company-wide planning and reporting processes. If you are passionate about using data to drive operational rigour, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and enjoy taking ownership of critical business processes, this is the role for you.
Duties:
- Company planning & governance: Help drive our annual planning cycle and quarterly business reviews. Take ownership of building and maintaining our company-level target-tracking systems to translate our long-term growth roadmap into operational execution.
- Collaborate closely with Finance - who own the core company reporting processes - to review, refine, and contribute strategic updates and company-wide metrics, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
- AI Enablement: Support the integration of AI-assisted workflows across the business to improve efficiency in data gathering, reporting, and planning.
- Strategy development & market analysis: Perform foundational strategy work, including competitor tracking, customer research, and qualitative/quantitative analyses to support new strategic initiatives, business cases, and strategic reviews.
- Data-driven insights: Build and interrogate company metrics and reporting frameworks to surface insights that inform effective decision-making.
Requirements
- Experience in a highly analytical, fast-paced environment. We have a strong preference for candidates with a background in top-tier strategy consulting or business operations within a high-growth tech environment.
- A proven ability to approach problems in a structured, organized manner and manage processes with multiple stakeholders.
- Advanced modeling skills (highly proficient in Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets) with an uncompromising attention to detail.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable translating deep data into executive-level slides, written briefs, and presentations for senior leadership.
- Highly organised self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, manages multiple streams of work concurrently, and is eager to rotate into diverse cross-functional challenges.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Pension plan (match up to 5%)
- Life insurance - three times annual salary
- Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
- Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
- 25 days holiday and bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
- Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
- All the latest tech you need
- Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
- Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
- A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
- An environment where we encourage learning and progress
- Two charity days a year
- Weekly food pop-up