Financial Controller, Proxymity
14 Month FTC, Maternity Leave Cover
3 days a week in office
Investor communications platform
Open for applications
Investor communications platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create more accurate, efficient and transparent solutions with no manual data entry or paper-based transfer.
Role
Who you are
- You are a qualified accountant with experience in finance or accounting roles both in-practice and in-house
- Proven experience in technical accounting, including managing audits, month-end processes, and day-to-day accounting functions
- An entrepreneurial mindset and comfortable in a fast-moving and evolving environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, being able to Collaborate effectively with both the finance team and senior management
- Able to build strong, collaborative relationships across teams and stakeholders in all levels of the business
- Self-motivated and able to work independently
- Work three days per week in the London office
What the job involves
- What we're looking for: a proactive and results-driven Financial Controller to oversee our financial operations and support our continued growth
- In this role, you’ll be responsible for supporting and improving Proxymity’s financial performance, managing accounting processes, and collaborating with international stakeholders across multiple regions
- A key focus will be ensuring a smooth and successful group audit for the year ending 31 December 2025
- You’ll also play an important role in strengthening compliance, and providing accurate financial insights
- Management Accounting: Overseeing day-to-day accounting and financial operations for our entities in the UK, Israel, Australia, Malaysia and the USA. Overall responsibility for data entry into accounting system and integrity of accounting system data, as well as supervising and working with any outsourced accountants and tax advisors
- Month-end Close: Ownership of the group month-end close across 5 entities, with review of the Israel entity. Review the Senior Finance Associate’s work, and hands-on close required for more complex areas of the balance sheet
- Financial Reporting: Ownership of our monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements to ensure accuracy and compliance with accounting standards. Ownership of the reconciliation between the management consolidation and the audited accounts
- Global Audit Ownership: Manage the audit process to ensure deadlines are set and not missed, resulting in K-1s being issued to corporate investors within H1 2026
- Statutory & Regulatory Compliance: Supervising and working with our external accountants and tax advisors, ensuring proper compliance with all legislation and regulations globally (e.g. corporate filings and HMRC deadlines)
- Treasury Management: Manage our global cash position and cashflow to ensure FX risk is appropriate managed, and excess cash has an appropriate yield
- Revenue Recognition and Ownership: Work closely with Sales Operations to ensure Finance’s understanding of revenue and pipeline is accurate, whilst ensuring that revenue recognition is in line with US GAAP accounting policies
- Process Improvement: Evaluating, streamlining and improving accounting systems and operations
- Fundraising: Supporting the leadership team with investor relations and assisting with fundraising processes
- Financial Planning and Analysis Support: Producing insightful data analysis and supporting with the development of budgets and financial plans
- Commercial Analysis: Producing data analysis as required for all depts, with direction from execs
- Equity & Grant Management: Supporting the management of the company's equity and option grants
- Relationship Management: Building and developing strong relationships with senior execs around the business
- Line Management: Manage and support the Senior Finance Associate’s continued professional development (CPD)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded with the ambitious goal of revolutionising investor communications, Proxymity connects intermediaries, investors, and issues in real-time, thereby transforming proxy voting within the corporate governance ecosystem.
Supported by Citi's D10XSM program, the founders saw the potential to reinvent proxy voting, leading to the development of transparent, accurate, and efficient solutions for clients, streamlining the entire proxy voting and asset servicing process. By doing so, Proxymity enhances the investor lifecycle, enabling clients to tackle complex problems and add value at every stage.
Since gaining independence as a separate entity in early 2020, Proxymity has enjoyed remarkable growth and garnered support from prominent industry players as well as forming strategic partnerships. Given this success, the company now has ambitious plans for extensive expansion in the coming future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2025
$26m
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $98.5m
Company benefits
- Headspace subscription
- Birthday off in addition to annual leave
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Improved family-friendly policies
- Work your way
- Choose your tech
- 2 duvet days a year
- 1 volunteer day a year
- 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity
- Workation - Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year
- Companywide parties twice a year
- Team drinks
- A dog friendly office with snacks and free drinks
- A company wins programme
- Companywide panels on variety of subjects like diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, etc
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Jonathan Smalley
(Co-Founder)After studying at Nottingham, Jonathan worked for BNY Mellon before joining Citi for almost 10 years.
Dean Little
(Co-Founder)Dean worked at Citi for over 14 years, rising from a Director to becoming part of Citi's D10XSM program- which ultimately led to the creation of Proxymity.
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