VP Corporate Finance

About Intent HQ

Recognised by the Financial Times as one of the FT1000 Fast Growing Companies in Europe (2022–2024), and winners of both Analytics Company of the Year 2025 and AI Company of the Year 2024 at the British Data Awards, Intent HQ is a leader and innovator in Customer AI Analytics and Data Science. Backed by strong investors and trusted by a blue‑chip international enterprise customer base, our mission is to become the world’s preeminent Customer Intent Engine by combining privacy‑first signal intelligence, proprietary behavioural AI/ML analytics, and uniquely accessible enterprise insights into a single platform that enables organisations to build more genuine, sustainable, and profitable relationships with customers.

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

What sets us apart is our focus on deep customer interaction data, doing the hard, specialised work so our clients can focus on applying insight to their business strategies.

Today, Intent HQ is home to an exciting, diverse, and fast‑growing team of 100+ people across London, Barcelona, Lisbon, Tel Aviv, New York, South Africa & India, collectively speaking over 15 languages.

• 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

• Impactful Role shaping how the company moves forward
• Growth Opportunities:
  Advance your career in a fast‑paced, innovative industry
• Hybrid role: 3 days per week in our state‑of‑the‑art London office plus access to the onsite gym (including towel serviced showers and changing facilities)

We are seeking an experienced finance professional to join our team on an interim basis for a fixed but flexible term. This role will provide critical support across fundraising and investment readiness projects, as well as assist with operational finance and other ad hoc projects, working in alignment with the core finance team.

The role will report to the CFO, and is intended to complement and supplement the existing finance team. You will ensure that key projects identified by the CFO are delivered on time without jeopardising standard operational processes and support the senior finance team to ensure that key commercial and financial controls are effectively and timely applied.

• Support the CFO with deal‑related activities to maximise deal value and optimise deal structure, including during prospective investor briefings, updating financial projections and producing analyses, due diligence, negotiation and contacting.
• Prepare and maintain investor‑ready data rooms across all areas of the business, ensuring information is robust, accurate, and consistent. This will include data preparation, coordinating, and chasing other stakeholders across the business.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure financial insights and analysis produced underpin sound decision‑making and optimise deal terms.
• Take a lead role in certain other corporate finance activities such as due diligence, warranty insurance and share option schemes.
• Assist with selected operational finance projects to ensure important financial and commercial controls are applied, and in support of the Group’s Senior Leadership Team.

• Strong background in corporate finance or deal advisory, ideally with experience from a Big 4 accountancy firm or similar.
• Proven experience of supporting deal preparation, progression, negotiation, legal and completion activities, including…