# Chief of Staff – to the Chief Lending Officer

**Company**: OakNorth
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Working directly with OakNorth's Chief Lending Officer, you'll help grow and scale our UK and US lending businesses.

This is a commercial, analytical and hands-on role. You'll shape strategy, assess growth opportunities and work with lending leadership and teams across the business to turn plans into results.

You'll be a trusted partner to the CLO , exercising independent judgement, anticipating what's next and bringing structure without slowing decisions , and thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

### Responsibilities

#### Shape Growth and Strategy

- Shape the growth strategy for UK and US lending, identifying opportunities across sectors, markets and segments and testing them with financial modelling and commercial judgement

- Own the strategic planning rhythm , annual plans, budgets, targets and quarterly priorities , with Finance, Credit and lending leadership

#### Turn Strategy into Execution

- Lead high-priority strategic and operational initiatives end to end, turning priorities into clear plans with milestones and owners

- Work across Lending, Credit, Finance, Product, Technology and People to keep initiatives moving and remove barriers

#### Partner with the CLO and Build for Scale

- Act as a trusted partner to the CLO , preparing analysis and materials for executive, leadership and board discussions, and coordinating MBRs, QBRs and OKRs

- Build the operating models, structures, hiring and capabilities needed to scale, simplifying through technology, automation and AI

### Requirements

- Commercial and growth mindset , able to spot opportunities, size them and translate them into actionable plans

- Strategic and operational capability , thinks strategically while getting into the detail to deliver

- Strong executive partnership , confident with a fast-moving leader; independent judgement, clarity and constructive challenge without slowing decisions

- Entrepreneurial approach , comfortable without a playbook, taking ownership in a high-growth environment

- High energy, low ego and a hands-on approach

- Financial services experience , strong preference for banking, lending, private credit or investment banking

### Benefits

- Equity , we want you to have a stake in the business so our interests are aligned

- 25 days' holiday plus personalised benefits , opt in to what matters to you

- Subsidised private medical insurance with Bupa

- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

- Wellbeing and social events, plus an in-house Barista Bar in the London office

- Volunteering time off to support causes that matter to you

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## Skills

### Required
- financial modelling
- strategic planning
- operational capability
- executive partnership
- entrepreneurial approach

### Nice to have
- banking
- lending
- private credit
- investment banking

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