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Chief of Staff (IB)

Strategic operator for the founder. IB-trained. Holds the pen on board materials, partnership economics, and the operating cadence of an early-stage fintech.

Experience: 2–4 years Location: Hybrid Reports to: Founder Compensation: Cash + meaningful equity

You will be the strategic operator inside the founder's office. We are looking for someone with an investment banking analyst or junior associate background — two to four years post-graduation — who would rather operate than continue on the IB → PE / hedge fund track. The work is what an IB role taught you to do, applied to the messier shape of an early-stage company.

You will hold the pen on board materials, investor updates, and the financial models that decide partner economics. You will run the operating cadence — the weekly metrics, the monthly board pack, the follow-through on commitments. You will own the unglamorous, compounding work that keeps a fast-moving fintech from coming apart at the seams. Comfort with confidentiality and high-stakes context is non-negotiable.

What you will do

•Build the financial models that decide partner economics — bank, distributor, insurance MoUs.
•Author the board pack, investor updates, and the founder's strategic memos.
•Run point on partnership structuring with banks and ecosystem partners.
•Hold the operating cadence — weekly metrics review, monthly board, quarterly planning.
•Be the connective tissue between the founder and the team.

What you bring

•2–4 years at a top-tier investment bank — analyst class or junior associate.
•Visible coverage of one of: financial services, fintech, consumer.
•Modeling fluency — three-statement, LBO, sensitivities, scenario.
•Investor-grade deck craft.
•Comfort with ambiguity, confidentiality, and unglamorous work.

What you do not need

· Prior startup experience.
· Specific fintech background.
· Engineering or product experience.

The written application

Apply for this role.

Eight questions. Most should be answered in 100–300 words each. We will read every word — most people stop here, which is fine, the questions are the filter.

Full name *

Email *

Phone (with country code) *

LinkedIn URL *

Q01 · Investment banking experience

Where were you, what was the role, how long, and what was the group? *

Bank name, analyst/associate class, dates, group (M&A, FIG, leveraged finance, restructuring, ECM, DCM, etc.). Be exact.

Q02 · Most complex model you have built

Walk us through the most complex financial model you have built. *

What was the deal or company? What made the model genuinely hard? Where did your judgement show up — assumption, structure, or output? Treat the model as confidential — describe the shape of the work, not the names.

Q03 · A moment you held the pen

Tell us about a moment when senior leadership relied on your call. *

Not a moment when you delivered well-defined work to spec — a moment when the call itself was yours. What was the call, why was it yours, and how did it land?

Q04 · Why operator, not investor

Why are you choosing operating over the typical IB → PE / hedge fund / corp dev path? *

"I want to learn faster" is not enough. Tell us what you are trying to optimise for in the next five years.

Q05 · Why Nexo — specifically

Why Nexo? Not generic — what in our materials struck you, and what would you push back on? *

Read the deck and the website before answering. Tell us what's right, what's not yet right, and where you would help us see clearer.

Q06 · First 30 days as the founder's CoS

If you joined on Monday, what would you build or ship in the first 30 days? *

Be concrete — three specific outputs, not three categories of work.

Q07 · One thing you have read or watched recently

A book, paper, deck, podcast, or talk that has changed how you think about something. *

Not the obvious-curated-list answer. The honest one.

Q08 · The basics

Notice period, earliest start date, current compensation band (cash + bonus), expected band, and location flexibility. *

Direct answers please. We will not haggle on any of these in early conversations — we just need to know whether the shape fits.

Optional · Resume / CV

Resume link (Drive / Dropbox / Notion / personal site)

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