Strategy and Corporate Development Manager

About Allica Bank Allica is the category defining leader in Established SME banking in the UK, named the #1 Fastest Growing Startup in Europe 2024 by Sifted, 2nd fastest growing company in Europe by the Financial Times in 2025 and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. Our purpose is to help establish SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech. Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities—representing over a third of our economy—yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Department Description The Corporate Development Team drives Allica’s ambitious and distinctive growth strategy by spearheading the pursuit and execution of selective business M&A, portfolio purchases and forward flow lending partnerships, driving expansion into new products and new markets, supporting capital raising and investor related activity, and supporting senior bank leadership to shape business strategy and make sound commercial decisions.

Purpose of Role As Strategy & Corporate Development Manager, you’ll be at the centre of Allica’s growth story—driving initiatives that define the company’s next chapter. You will be one of the first hires outside the UK and therefore play a key-role in Allica’s expansion in Northern Europe and in establishing a subsidiary in Sweden. This is an opportunity to influence high-level decisions and drive rapid scaling to help Allica become a category leader in Established SME banking across Northern Europe.

In this role you’ll play a key role in Allica’s pursuit of opportunities across the end-to-end transaction lifecycle—from assessing opportunities to executing and integrating strategic mergers & acquisitions and lending partnerships. Beyond that, you’ll be deeply involved in capital raising, investor-engagement, and strategic analysis that shapes our business direction—and executing to make it happen. Expect to work on market research, competitive insights, due diligence and financial modelling, and developing relationships with a wide range of external stakeholders and advisors.

This is a unique and high-profile role in a small team where you’ll work closely with the Head of Corporate Development and gain significant exposure to Allica’s Executive and Board leadership. You’ll collaborate with experts across teams such as Finance, Legal, Product, Risk, Data, Distribution and Operations, developing a deep understanding of the inner workings of a modern bank.

Principal Accountabilities

• Conduct market research and analyze macroeconomics, SME and competitor trends to support the strategy development of the bank and entry into new markets across Northern Europe

• Produce strategic and financial analysis to evaluate mergers & acquisitions, portfolio purchases and lending partnership transaction opportunities

• Drive the end-to-end execution and governance of transactions, including due diligence, negotiation and Day 1-100 implementation and planning, working with and developing relationships with external parties, advisers and functional subject matter experts across the bank

• Work with portfolio companies (like a private equity operator) post deal completion to drive value creation, integration and execution of agreed plans

• Help drive Allica’s capital raising activity, including the drafting of information memorandum materials and investor updates, and responding to ad hoc investor-related requests

• Produce logical, actionable and insightful analysis and reports to inform executive and board decision making

• Provide your colleagues in various teams across the bank with ad hoc strategic and commercial support

Personal Attributes & Experience

• 5-8 years of professional experience in a fast-paced top-tier strategy consultancy, investment bank or in-house corporate development team

• Banking/fintech/specialist lending sector experience, which may be through direct experience working for a fast-growing fintech or bank, or through strategy project exposure; experience of commercial/SME lending in the UK and/or Europe is a plus

• Experience of the buy-side M&A transaction process including commercial due diligence; experience of integration planning / post-Day 1 value creation is a plus

• Sound understanding of corporate finance and accounting concepts and experience applying these by conducting quantitative financial analysis to assess commercial opportunities; good understanding of bank regulatory capital and liquidity requirements is a plus

• Able to independently lead strategic analyses by using structured thinking to simplify complex problems, seek out and work with structured and unstructured data, conduct analysis drawing on data and expert insights, and present insightful and actionable outputs

• Excellent technical Excel modelling and PowerPoint skills and ability to work quickly and accurately with high attention to detail

• Great communication skills with the ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders across all levels and influence senior executive and board leadership

• Intellectually curious, highly driven and like a challenge, and see yourself thriving in a dynamic, fast-growing business where you can grow in the role

The position is based in Stockholm and will initially be employed through Deel, reporting to Allica’s Head of Corporate Development. Fluency in both Swedish and English is required and proficiency in other Nordic and wider European languages is a plus.

For more information please contact Edvard König at edvard@brightpeople.se or +46709783500