We are looking for an experienced Financial Controller with strong financial control, reporting and governance expertise to help us build a best-in-class finance function!
We began by solving complex challenges for clients in the telecommunications sector, including Verizon, O2, and Orange, and have since expanded into Financial Services, Retail, and Social Media, with clients such as HB Reavis and Zurich Group. Our clients typically manage tens of millions of customers and process billions of interactions daily. Our platform is purpose-built to handle data at this enormous scale efficiently, delivering tangible results
Recent Awards & Recognition:
- Best AI Ethics & Diversity Award 2025 - AI World Series Awards
- AI Business of the Year 2025 - The National AI Awards
- Analytics Company of the Year 2025 – British Data Awards
- AI Company of the Year 2024 – British Data Awards
- FT1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022–2024 – Financial Times & Statista
- Top 100 Edge Computing Company 2024 – STL Partners
About the Role
Intent is looking for an experienced Financial Controller to join its leadership team at an exciting stage of growth. This is a newly defined role that will anchor the financial control pillar of a redesigned finance function, taking ownership of the core accounting and control environment while working closely with FP&A and Finance Transformation to build a best-in-class finance operation.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Control & Reporting
• Own the month-end and year-end close process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of financial statements
• Internal Controls - develop, document, and enforce accounting policies and robust business processes that strengthen internal controls and mitigate financial risks
• Oversee statutory reporting and liaise with external auditors
• Cash Flow Management: Monitor daily transactions, manage accounts payable/receivable, and ensure the company has adequate liquidity to meet its obligations. Maintain short and long-term cash-flow analysis
• Ensure compliance with relevant accounting standards (IFRS / UK GAAP as applicable)
Team Leadership
• Lead and develop a small, high-performing team, including the Management Accountant, Payroll, AR/Billing, and Procurement
• Act as a key escalation point for technical accounting judgements across the team
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the control function
Governance & Compliance
• Oversee payroll accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery
• Provide oversight of accounts receivable and billing processes
• Support spend governance and vendor compliance through the Procurement function
• Ensure tax and regulatory filings are completed accurately and on time
Cross-functional Collaboration
• Partner with FP&A to support budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting
• Work closely with Finance Transformation to support process automation and system improvement initiatives
• Act as a trusted finance partner to operational business leaders
Qualifications & SkillsEssential• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Demonstrable experience in a Financial Controller or Senior Finance Manager role
• Strong technical accounting knowledge (IFRS or UK GAAP)
• Experience leading and developing a finance team
• Close attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams to tight deadlines
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Desirable
• Experience in a high-growth, scale-up, or technology-led business
• Familiarity with modern finance tooling and automation
• Exposure to procurement or vendor governance frameworks
• Experience working alongside or driving finance transformation programmes
Benefits
About Intent
You leave a trail behind you every day — and it says more about what you will do next than anything you have told a company directly. Your phone registers when you fall asleep and when you wake. Your mobile network notices your commute. Your browser remembers that you wandered onto a competitor's site last Tuesday — and the Tuesday before that. You move through the world, and the world quietly takes notes.
Most companies lose the detail. A large mobile network generates hundreds of billions of events every single day — too expensive to keep in raw form. So your rich, specific, wonderfully complicated life gets compressed into an average. You become “males 25–34 in the southeast who browsed upgrades.” A bucket. A segment. And then that bucket gets blasted with messages — because when you cannot tell what someone actually wants, the only strategy left is frequency. Send more, send often, hope something lands.
We built something different. Intent runs two types of intelligence in parallel. Our cloud engine reads billions of events a day — weblogs, payments, app signals, CRM records — and finds behavioural sequences: chains of small actions that unfold in a recognisable order before someone switches, upgrades, or leaves. Our on-device Edge AI sits directly on the phone, reading 16,000 signals and distilling them into 750 insights about your current state — without any of that information ever leaving the device.
We manage over 300 million customer profiles. We underpin $115 billion in customer value. We hold 49 patents in behavioural AI, privacy architecture, and on-device intelligence. We were named AI Business of the Year 2025. And Verizon — with large data science teams of its own — has been our customer for seven years, because what we have built over a decade of patents, learning, and rigorous product development cannot be easily replicated.
Our Team
Around 110 people and growing, based across London, Barcelona, Lisbon, New York, and Tel Aviv. Engineers, data scientists, product designers, and commercial minds who collectively speak over 15 languages. United by a single conviction: when you understand human behaviour properly, relevance follows — and when relevance follows, so does value.
Why Join Intent
Work that matters at genuine scale.
Our clients have tens of millions of customers and billions of interaction events each day. You will not be optimising a landing page — you will be shaping how the world's largest enterprises understand and serve their customers.
Category-defining technology.
49 patents. An AI that reads 16,000 behavioural signals directly on your phone — data never leaves. A cloud engine that digests 250 billion events a day and delivers fresh intelligence in under 120 seconds. Privacy twins that make re-identification mathematically infeasible.
Global reach, real momentum.
Verizon, MTN Group, ABG Capital — across telecoms, financial services, retail, and social media. Expanding rapidly into Latin America, Africa, APAC, India, and the Middle East. AI Business of the Year 2025.
A place to grow — fast.
We are at an inflexion point: approaching profitability, launching a flagship agentic platform, and scaling commercially across seven regions. The people who join now will shape the next chapter.
Hybrid and flexible.
London-based roles work from the office three days a week, with the rest remote. Team members across Barcelona, Lisbon, New York, South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil, India, and Tel Aviv — a genuinely international team solving genuinely global problems.
Our Values — In Practice
Human-first. No one is average. We start with individual reality, motivation, and context — not statistical convenience or abstract users.
Principled. Privacy is a human right — a design principle, not a legal afterthought. Trust is foundational, not optional.
Ambitious. We anticipate the edge — looking ahead early and building what others assume cannot yet be built.
Inclusive. Intentionally relevant. Every interaction should earn its place — serving simply, with clarity in product, communication, and action.
In service. We serve simply — to our customers, to each other, and to the work itself. No unnecessary complexity, no ego in the way.