Financial Services Team Lead

Category:
Operations

Location:

London, GB

Date Posted:
Jul 29, 2026

BMI is currently seeking a Financial Services Team Lead based out of our London office.

BMI's systematic, independent and data-driven market insights, analysis and forecasts enable customers to recognize and assess risks and opportunities across markets and industries. For almost 40 years, we have provided impartial views to support our customers’ strategic plans and investment decisions.

At BMI, we’re proud of the work we do to help our clients manage risks and opportunities in global markets, which began in 1984 and continues to this day. By stepping into a role here, you will help shape the strategic decisions of the world’s leading organizations.

As a member of our team, your role will go beyond conventional boundaries. You will collaborate with industry experts, thought leaders, and visionary executives, collectively working towards shaping the future of businesses that span a multitude of sectors. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we continuously strive to offer our colleagues a great place to work, with opportunities to learn, innovate, develop their careers, and serve the community.

This is a newly created team lead role within BMI, heading our expanding Financial Services research hub. The successful candidate will lead a team of analysts covering Banking, Insurance and Real Estate, with direct line management responsibility for five analysts with the potential to scale the team’s sector coverage and commercial impact over time. This is a high-profile, client-facing position with significant visibility across BMI, working closely with product, commercial, industry and country risk and teams to strengthen BMI’s financial services offering.

• Lead and develop BMI’s Financial Services research hub, with direct line management responsibility for a team of five analysts and a clear remit to build team capability, deepen sector expertise and support future expansion into adjacent financial services research areas.
• Oversee the production, quality and strategic direction of research and data across Banking, Insurance and Real Estate, ensuring output is timely, commercially relevant and aligned with client needs and BMI’s broader research priorities.
• Drive product and content development across the financial services vertical, identifying opportunities to enhance existing research, launch new datasets or analytical offerings, and strengthen BMI’s value proposition in the market.
• Partner with sector teams, global economists and country risk analysts to deliver differentiated cross-sector insights, identify emerging themes and contribute to BMI’s thought leadership on financial systems, market dynamics and investment risks.
• Represent BMI externally through client engagement, presentations and relationship-building, acting as a senior voice for our financial services research and helping translate market developments into actionable insight for clients.

• You have significant experience in financial services research, with strong subject-matter expertise in at least one of Banking, Insurance or Real Estate, and a strong understanding of the broader financial services landscape.
• You have prior people management experience, including line management, coaching and performance development responsibilities within a research, analytical or related environment.
• You have experience producing or overseeing data-driven research, including forecasting, market analysis and the development of structured analytical output for external or commercial audiences.
• You are confident presenting to senior stakeholders and clients, with the ability to communicate complex analysis clearly and credibly in both written and verbal formats.

• Experience launching or expanding research products, datasets or content offerings in response to client demand or market opportunities.
• A track record of building, scaling or reshaping analytical teams, including talent acquisition and professional development.
• Experience working across multiple financial services sectors or integrating…