• Be the face of Atom in the field as a Commercial BDM for London and South East, managing a high-concentration region with a waiting list of brokers ready to be engaged.
• Join a team that has grown from £300m to £1.6bn in lending with ambitious plans for continued growth.
• Work at the UK's first app-based bank, sitting in the sweet spot between high-street banks and specialist lenders.
📋 Job Requirements
• Be based in the London or South East area.
• Have proven experience in a commercial lending role such as BDM, Account Manager, or Broker with a solid grasp of the SME lending landscape.
• Have a high degree of accountability and self-management as the master of your own diary.
• Be able to deliver compelling presentations and build relationships across diverse communities.
• Have great interpersonal skills.
• Have proven experience of delivering against commercial targets.
• Hold a full, clean driving licence and have your own vehicle.
🌟 Nice-to-have
🎯 Responsibilities
• Identify, build, and maintain expert-level relationships with commercial finance brokers and SME intermediaries.
• Act as the primary technical leader in the field, training brokers on Atom's systems, products, and lending criteria.
• Manage the front-line quality of applications, ensuring they meet regulatory standards and deliver the right outcomes for customers.
• Represent Atom at industry events such as NACFB and act as a conduit for market intelligence back to senior leadership.
• Deliver against metrics for broker interactions, lending volumes, and engagement levels.
• Be out on the road for 3 of your 4-day week, delivering presentations, onboarding brokers, and balancing a heavy flow of emails to ensure every application is high-quality and first time right.
Atom bank is one of the most compelling places to work in UK fintech right now, and not just because of the four-day working week. Atom became profitable for the first time in 2024 and has grown its loan book by 29% to £5.3 billion, while being consistently rated the UK's highest-rated bank by its customers on Trustpilot. The four-day work week is real and established: in November 2021, Atom became the largest company and only bank in the UK to introduce the policy for all employees, genuinely reducing contracted hours from 37.5 to 34 per week with no salary cut, and job applications rose 49% as a result. There is also genuinely no mandatory office attendance, with only around 10% of staff regularly coming in. What really stands out is that Atom has done all of this from Newcastle, building one of the UK's best-loved banks without ever opening a London office. Glassdoor reviewers consistently highlight the brilliant people, the no-blame culture, and the interesting and meaningful work. The main caveat to note is that some employees, particularly at more senior levels, have reported limited progression opportunities as the company matures beyond its early startup phase. But if you want to work somewhere that backs its values with action, a genuinely flexible, people-first bank that is growing sustainably and has a product its customers genuinely love, Atom is hard to beat.
😃 What Atom Bank offers
• Work a 4-day week with a salary of £55k and OTE of £77k.
• Receive a car allowance of £8k.
• Access an incredibly generous company pension scheme with a maximum of 13% Atom input.
• Get 22.5 days annual leave plus public holidays.
• Receive Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan, and Life Insurance.
• Benefit from enhanced parental leave.
• Access a £200 per year All About Me fund for personal development.
• Join the Electric Vehicle Scheme.
💖 What makes Atom Bank unique
Atom Bank is the UK's first app-based bank, on a mission to make finance faster, simpler, and way more human. Atom has ditched the stuffy banking model to build something that actually works for customers, whenever and wherever they need it. Sitting in the sweet spot between high-street banks and specialist lenders, Atom solves the pain points others can't.
💬 What employees say
"Atom is a safe environment to work in with amazing people to learn from. If you want to be challenged and work in creative teams, this is the place for you! It's a bank that makes you feel part of something good and pushes you to develop."
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