Job Description
Capital Markets Data Associate
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London
Reporting To: Sarah Quander
We are seeking a highly motivated and analytical professional to lead portfolio monitoring and pricing decisions, working closely with cross-functional teams, including Commercial, Risk, and Capital. The ideal candidate will have a strong strategic mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to balance commercial objectives, risk tolerance, and financial outcomes to drive optimal pricing strategies.
The Capital Market team is responsible for managing relationships with institutional investors that deploy capital via the YouLend platform; track performances of the investment mandates; identify early trends in the market to take relevant actions; deploy and report on the individual portfolios.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitoring portfolio performance across products and vintages, ensuring alignment with capital mandates and covenant requirements, and identifying trends, risks, and return drivers to inform pricing and portfolio decisions
- Automating financial models and manual reporting processes while upholding data accuracy, and working closely with internal team members to solidify the financial model assumptions supporting our investment offering
- Assumeing ownership of external client data requests and inquiries, including ongoing trouble shooting and tie-outs
- Liaising with Technology, Data and Operations leadership to ensure alignment on project objectives, deliverables, requirements, and status updates
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
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Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in Investment Banking, Private Credit, Fintech or a similar Industry
- Proven experience collaborating across multiple business units
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with proficiency in financial modelling and SQL
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to influence and align cross-functional teams
- Advanced proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, Python) and familiarity with business intelligence software
Desirable skills:
- Experience in cashflow modelling
- In-depth domain expertise in the structured finance and securitised products space at an institutional level across any asset class
- Ability to work independently and in a small team
- Comfort with ambiguity
- You are independent, ambitious, and self-motivated and looking to make an impact
Benefits
Why join YouLend?
- Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work in 2024 and 2025” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
- Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.
It’s just getting fun:
- We have developed powerful solutions, won some significant partnerships, and are growing at a rapid pace.
- But the global opportunity is still massive, and YouLend is a raw organisation where we are only just getting started.
Lots of upsides:
- High-growth (>100% growth during 2022 and 2023), so clear outlook to compensation (bonus or share option appreciation) and career growth (through growth with business).
- Well-capitalised with supportive private equity backing.
- Part of Banking Circle Group with a fully licensed Luxembourg bank, which can provide a balance sheet and support European expansion in otherwise complex regulated markets.
Motivating work environment:
- A high-quality team that pushes each other to succeed through direct feedback and aligned incentives.
- Strong and transparent team culture, we have each other’s backs.
- Independent work environment where results matter.
- Data-driven culture and emphasis on speed (anti-red tape).
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Stock Options
- Private Medical insurance via Vitality and Dental Insurance with BUPA
- EAP with Health Assured
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
- Free Gym in office building in Holborn
- Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
- Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
- Monthly in office Masseuse
- Team and Company Socials
- Football Power League / Paddle and Yoga Club
At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.
