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About the Role

Lead the post-approval stage of the lending pipeline, ensuring accurate and timely loan completion and disbursement. This role involves leading a team responsible for loan documentation, compliance checks, and final readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Lending Operations Analysts, setting clear performance standards and supporting day-to-day workload management.
• Own the post-underwriting workflow: loan documentation preparation, condition clearing, compliance sign-off, and disbursement readiness.
• Monitor turnaround times and pipeline throughput, identifying and resolving bottlenecks between underwriting approval and funding.
• Act as the key point of escalation for complex or delayed cases, liaising closely with Underwriting, Credit, and Compliance teams.
• Build and refine SOPs to improve accuracy, consistency, and speed across the prepping function.
• Report on team performance, pipeline health, and completion metrics to senior leadership.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and training as the team scales.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a lending operations, loan servicing, or post-approval/completions role within SME or commercial lending.
• Prior people management or team lead experience, ideally within a fast-paced lending or fintech environment.
• Strong working knowledge of loan documentation, conditions precedent, and disbursement processes.
• Excellent attention to detail balanced with a sense of urgency around turnaround times.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with Underwriting, Credit, and Compliance.
• Experience with unsecured business lending or merchant cash advance products is a bonus.

Location

• London, UK

Work Type

• Hybrid

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive base salary plus performance bonus

Benefits

• Private health insurance
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Genuine career progression
• Collaborative, fast-moving team
• Modern London office with flexible hybrid working

About the Company

• Elect Capital is a fast-growing SME lender providing working capital loans, business loans, and merchant cash advances to small and medium-sized businesses across the UK, Australia, Canada, and the US.
• Our Mission: To become the most trusted lending partner for SMEs globally — combining speed, transparency, and genuine relationship-driven support at every stage of the loan journey.
• Our Values: C.O.R.E - Challenge, Opportunity, Resilience, Edge.