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Finimize
Finance/investing insights, analysis and community
- 21-100 employees
- Fintech
- Education
- Personal finance
- Investing
- Social Impact
- City of London, London, UK
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Company mission
To build a financial education platform to help our diverse user base become smarter investors in less than 15 minutes a day.
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Finimize helps those who want to invest their money but who don't know how, and who can't afford a financial advisor. Finimize set out to fill in the gaps for those that want to invest with confidence by building a community around democratising financial know-how. Their approach has put financial information at people's fingertips, allowing anyone to invest and grow their money.
The potential market for this kind of service is substantial. The finance industry has struggled to engage the current generation when it comes to investing, with the prospect being mostly hidden behind complex financial jargon which has previously scared off many would-be investors. Finimize's app condenses research by analysts into succinct reports on over 60 financial topics, which has already created a loyal following of 'Finimizers' around the world.
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Benefits
- 16-18% employer pension contribution
- Market leading parental leave – up to 20 weeks paid
- Work directly with the founding team
- Awesome social events, and a budget to organise your own
- Income protection & life assurance
- 40 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Private Health Care
- Financial wellbeing resources including a free one-to-one financial planning meeting. Plus access to our product and in-house financial experts
- Personal development budget
- Work from home opportunities. Most of us work 2-3 days / week from our London office, but we're flexible with alternative arrangements. For the right candidate for certain roles we support full-time remote, as long as you're based in a particular country and able to work on a similar timezone to London.
- Mental health support services
- Donate to charities of your choice through your salary, with a matched £100/month employer contribution
- Additional self-funded options including further healthcare packages, travel insurance, legal services
Company values
- Enlighten and delight our users - Users come to us to be enlightened because we explain finance to them. Users stay with us because we delight them
- KISS - Keep it simple, stupid. We should aim to make everything understandable at a glance
- Eat your own dog food - Think of yourself when you create, write, or design something. Does it make sense to you? Would you use it? Both answers should be yes
- Be resourceful - Our goal is to help people make the most of their money. Let’s do that for ourselves as well
- See something, say something, DO SOMETHING - As we’re not hiring complainers but problem-solvers, if we see something that’s not working properly, we take action and fix it
- Be cleverly fast - Focus on making intelligent decisions and moving forward quickly rather than deliberating over the perfect answer
- Stay focused and be intense - There’s a lot we COULD be doing, and we need to relentlessly focus on our goals. Always ask how what you’re doing is helping (or not helping) progress towards them
- Listen to data but follow your gut - We use data to help make and support decisions, but our gut instincts are what make us great (and differentiate us from the competition)
Leadership
Maximilian Rofagha
(Founder)An LSE graduate, Maximillian also co-founded DeinDeal.ch, Switzerland's second-largest e-commerce platform after Amazon.
People progressing
Global Community Lead. Joined as a Community Manager - now running a Global Community of over a million users.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Finimize
Michelle Sims (Global Community Lead)
- Our goal is to make finance and investing accessible to anyone. As an industry traditionally associated with men, this is a huge challenge, and to do this we will need diverse ideas and input from across our product, growth, community, sales and content teams
- As we are growing the team rapidly we have a huge opportunity to broaden the diversity of our team, and are committing efforts to do so. These include:
- We have already made significant strides to broaden the gender diversity of our global community of users. Back in 2018, 10% of our event attendees identified as female. Today this stands at 45%. This has been due to a number of initiatives:
- Offering a best in class benefits package (including 16-18% employer pension contributions and UK-leading parental leave of up to 40 weeks full pay)
- Female investing book clubs and investing workshops
- Taking measures to ensure more applications from underrepresented demographics, including screening for gender-biased language, displaying salary ranges and avoiding unnecessary requirements
- Female Financial Dialogue event series aimed at empowering more women to get involved with finance
- Continuing to invest in internships where possible to improve our entry-level offerings
- Female focus groups and research, such as https://www.finimize.com/female-financial-report.pdf
- Proactively looking for new perspectives during the hiring process to avoid defaulting to homogeneity
- A commitment to gender diverse panels at all events
- Using anonymous review processes where possible on the hiring platforms we use to avoid unconscious bias
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At Finimize, I've developed in a professional sense much more than I could've ever imagined! My line manager and supportive, motivated and collaborative colleagues have pushed me to take leadership of an entire discipline within our team.
Sales & Account Management
Career progression
Jan 2022
The team at Finimize is both warm, kind and welcoming but also ambitious, driven and hard-working. It's the enthusiasm within the team that makes me excited to start work everyday - even when working remotely.
Sales & Account Management
Team energy
Jan 2022
I have never worked with such smart, pragmatic and yet creative colleagues. Senior management are filled with expertise that they are always willing to share.
Sales & Account Management
Intelligent people
Jan 2022
The entire company culture is set up to measure output and results rather than busy work or hours at your desk.
Operations & Strategy
Autonomy
Jan 2022
The team is so smart and motivated. Everyone is free to chime in with ideas for making things better.
Operations & Strategy
Intelligent people
Jan 2022
I learned more in 6 months at Finimize than in 6 years in a corporate role. Because management is very open to allowing people to experiment when solving problems, all staff have the opportunity to learn new skills.
Operations & Strategy
Opportunities to learn
Jan 2022
You'll find people here from a variety of incredible backgrounds. From our core Engineering and product teams, to our writers who are an assembled team of financial experts, journalists and audio producers.
Software Engineering
Intelligent people
Jan 2022
We use data to inform almost everything we do here. Every team (including our writers, community and sales teams) use our product and user data to better inform how they work. This allows us to be very focused and efficient in solving problems for our users.
Software Engineering
Data-driven decisions
Jan 2022
Everyone is given a broad remit and is able to solve problems how they see fit. This gives tremendous scope for learning new skills and pushing yourself. Everyone is encouraged to take on work in areas they're less experienced in so they can develop skills in those areas.
Software Engineering
Opportunities to learn
Jan 2022
We're a team that pulls impressive numbers when looking at the size of the team - everyone is an essential/ competent pillar in Finimize and that is the foundation that propels us to grow so successfully
Sales & Account Management
Hard working team
Jan 2022
A great group of people 🙌
Sales & Account Management
Nice people
Jan 2022
When success comes around sometimes the only way to scale is to grow the company - big big moves are happening to ensure that we grow/ scale in the right ways to allocate the work properly. VERY exciting times ahead
Sales & Account Management
Growing fast
Jan 2022
