The Lending Lab

The Lending Lab is a mortgage and finance broking firm that helps customers reach their goals and take the next step in their financial journey.

How we are different:

 💻 We are tech-focused, minimizing paper documentation and making the process easier for you

 📈 We are skilled in self-employed and business lending to ensure we service all of our customer's needs

 🏦 We are familiar with out-of-the-box lending solutions and work to find a solution for you 

 🎓 We pride ourselves on providing educational content to the general public at no cost and advocate for financial literacy to be taught in schools.

You can find us on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and right here on LinkedIn, speaking about beginner terminology, as well as covering advanced topics. 

Our service is at no cost to you, so why not reach out and see how The Lending Lab could help you?

Recent Individual Awards
📍1st Place Emerging Store Broker - Quarterly Sales Awards (Issued by Aussie Home Loans)
📍State Finalist NSW/ACT - Newcomer Award (Issued by MFAA)
📍Local Area Marketing Award (Issued by Aussie Home Loans)

Director and Chief Operating Officer

Andorra Private

DISCOVER A DIFFERENT PRIVATE LENDING EXPERIENCE

Fast. Reliable. Trustworthy.

We are private finance brokers specialising in sourcing private secured finance from a panel of trusted providers.

https://www.andorraprivate.com.au/

CEO and Founder

Aussie

I lodged over $100m during the first 12 months of my operation under the Aussie branding. 
Helped close to 100 people enter the property market, and collected some stellar google reviews.

Mortgage Broker

Greater Bank

- Complex business and trust lending specialist
 - Assisting the senior banker in managing the top 20 largest credit exposures of the bank
 - Completing annual credit reviews for existing facilities and managing arrears and hardcore debt inline with the bank's policies

Business Banker / Lender

Servicing Commercial and Residential property purchases/refinances as well as business finance 🏢

Hi there! I know your time is important, so here’s what I am about…

💰 Helping you find a loan with suitable terms and features

⏰ Saving you time and money by doing the research and application hard yards for you

🏡 Giving you access to over 50 lenders, providing access to more favourable borrowing terms

👩‍⚖️ Putting you in touch with the right professionals to help you in your home-buying journey

📞 Available to you 24/7 through my direct mobile number, unlike going direct to the bank

🏦 I have access to lenders such as CBA, ANZ, NAB, Westpac, Bankwest, Suncorp, St. George, ING, Macquarie, ME – the list goes on and on. 


Available 7 days a week, contact me below.


Recent Individual Awards
📍1st Place Emerging Store Broker - Quarterly Sales Awards
📍State Finalist NSW/ACT - Newcomer Award 
📍Local Area Marketing Award


🕺 About Me – I am a technology lover and a finance guru. I will set up your loans as if they were my own. I am happily married and have my wife, two cats, and three motorcycles at home. 


📱	Send me a message right here on LinkedIn
📞	Give me a call on 0412 759 847
💻	Book an appointment @ calendly.com/nickclunesbroker

Nick Clunes - Mortgage Broker

Translucent

Developing a platform of applications solving problems associated with managing multiple general ledgers for the one organisation. 

Here's some of the things we're currently working on:
■ Consolidated Group Reporting. 
■ Automated Intercompany Matrix & Recharging 
■ Bank Account Consolidation. 
■ Bookkeeping Audit.
■ Live Sheets Syncing.
.....and a lot more to come!

Senior Business Development Manager - APAC

Primary Ethics

Volunteer primary school teaching for the Primary Ethics programme in NSW.

Volunteer Teacher

NSW State Emergency Service

Member of the Mosman State Emergency Services Unit with a particular focus on storm and flood emergencies and where required, providing reinforcement for the wider emergency services across Australia.

Volunteer

Eftsure

Eftsure is a SaaS Fraud Prevention platform that protects B2B payments (> $200bn per year) by providing real time vendor (supplier) verification and real time payment protection. 

In a world of explosive & evolving cyber crime and payment fraud, Eftsure ensure that their customers never pay the wrong people.

My role focussed on enabling business growth through strategic partnerships across multiple verticals including banking partners, tech integrators & accountants.

Partnerships Manager

Cape

I joined Cape pre-revenue and pre-customer as the first customer facing/commercial team member. Contributed to scaling the organisation to $1m+ MoM total payment volume (with a focus on driving FX spend & savings through the Cape cards) and c.300 total customers. 

Key responsibilities included: 
■ Direct sales to drive us to our first 100 customers in the closed beta programme with a focus on developing a robust lead management policy and leveraging customer feedback to shape the product. 
■ Maturing the sales engine to drive customer scale through partnership distribution on top of the direct sales approach. 
■ Strategic partnership management including online affiliate partners, lenders and adjacent Fintechs. 
■ Building and owning product distribution via third party channels with a specific focus on finance brokers and accountants/bookkeepers.
■ Devising and implementing customer success playbooks and strategies to ensure product utilisation and enhanced customer experience.

Head of Growth

Dext

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to be relocated from London to the Australian business to lead a team of customer success professionals. 

Managing all divisions of the Partner Success Team across Asia Pacific:
■ Key Accounts Partner Success Team (Top 100 Accounting firms across APAC).
■ Partner Onboarding Team. 
■ Junior Partner Success Team (Grad Programme entrants) 
■ Customer Support Team.
■ Customer Retention Team.

  Key responsibilities include: 
■ Sitting on the regional Management Team of the Australian entity.
■ Working with the Director of Revenue Operations to ensure that company initiatives are executed through a market specific lens. 
■ Working in sync with the Regional Key Accounts, Account Management and New Business Team Managers to ensure that the Partner Success team are effectively underpinning the implementation of the software and executing on strategic firm wide roll out. 
■ Experimenting with techniques that lead to a reduction in time to value for the customer.  
■ Streamlining existing processes to ensure fast and efficient onboarding. 
■ Ongoing coaching and development of team members.
■ Development and delivery of thought leadership and educational webinars and workshops to partner and prospects.

Head of Partner Success (APAC)

Leading a team of Partner onboarding, implementation, support and customer retention specialists across the APAC region. 

Key responsibilities include: 
■ Coaching and mentoring direct reports. 
■ Continual process audit and improvement. 
■ Responsible for key SaaS metrics inc. churn, adoption and time to value.
■ Managing and developing a Partner advocate portfolio via low and high touch methods.

Senior Partner Success Consultant - Team Lead (APAC)

Working with our Partner firms to design and execute bespoke change management plans for the early stage implementation of Receipt Bank. Plans may consist of technical training, process consulting, internal implementation projects and strategic roll out to the firm's wider client base. 

Key responsibilities include: 
■ Hitting KPIs in relation to # clients adopted to each accounting partner.
■ Consulting with accounting partners to ensure an effective change management process for the bookkeeping division.
■ Experimenting with techniques to maximise the efficiency of onboarding Partners to the platform.
■ Managing a high volume pipeline of Partners at various stages of their onboarding journey .

Partner Success Consultant - Onboarding Specialist (EMEA)

Collaborating with the Sale Ops team to identify low ROI accounts and building success plans with our Partner accounting and bookkeeping firms to ensure that they are achieving maximum value. Success plans may include client identification and onboarding strategy sessions, pricing matrix discussions, best practice techniques and on site training. 

Key responsibilities include: 
■ Hitting KPIs in relation to maintaining MRR loss below budget.
■ Analysing monthly churn data and executing churn prevention strategies around the data. 
■ Collaborating with the product and sales teams to mitigate churn.
■ Relaying the voice of the partner to Senior Management and product.

Partner Success Consultant - Customer Retention Specialist (EMEA)

Royal Air Force (RAF)

Two years in a reservist squadron of The Royal Air Force. 

Experience gained:
■ Military field exercise
■ Leadership education
■ Military flight instruction on the EA Grob Tutor light aircraft
■ Summer attachment to a fast jet training base
■ Basic parachuting course
■ 4 Global expeditions:
1. Heroes of Telemark Expedition: Self-sufficient cross country skiing expedition on the Hardangervidda, Norway
2. Transglobe Sailing Expedition: Leg of a circumnavigation trip of the globe from Gosport to Lanzarote, covering circa 3000km
3. Jämtland Expedition: Cross country ski expedition from Storulvån-Sylarna-Blåhammaren
4. Hårkan River Expedition: Island hopping expedition in a canoe. Focus on survival skills and self-sufficiency

Officer Cadet

Selected to be a Military Service Steward on No.1 court for the duration of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, 2014.

Wimbledon Service Steward

HWUTIC

Member of an equity research team for the TMT sector at the Heriot Watt Trading and Investment Club. Research was predominately focussed on the 3D printing industry.

Equity Research Analyst

iCUE - Innovative Careers University of Edinburgh

Four month project to design and execute a marketing strategy for The Edinburgh Apprentice Business Competition. Successfully secured sponsorship and funding from a global Entrepreneur Support Network. Business mentorship was provided to the competition's winner to help bring their idea to fruition.

TEA Marketing Team

My experience predominately lies within the delivery and growth of Fintech platforms that are changing the nature of how accountants and finance professionals operate. I have 8+ years experience working to deliver solutions across EMEA and APAC and have led multifunctional teams that span the entirety of the SaaS customer journey.

I have worked on multiple GTM and implementation strategies for products that solve the intricacies of doing accounting and finance in today's digital age. Including assisting with launching two overseas acquired Fintech platforms into the Australian market for the first time, leading the growth for a pre-seed start up joining as their first commercial hire and driving revenue growth through strategic banking partnerships in the cyber security industry.

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Nick Clunes - Mortgage Broker

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