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title: 'Financial Controller at Sycurio'
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# Financial Controller at Sycurio

- **Company:** Sycurio
- **Location:** Guildford, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/sycurio/cc419299-f15f-4cf6-b045-852f402ff68e

## Job description

About Sycurio: Sycurio is a global leader in secure, frictionless payment solutions that empower enterprises to enhance customer experience and simplify compliance. Its patented cloud-based technologies protect sensitive data across all customer interactions and channels, ensuring compliance with industry standards like PCI DSS while reducing fraud risk and strengthening trust. Founded in 2009 as Semafone, Sycurio supports organizations in over 50 countries across five continents, partnering with leading brands worldwide. Backed by major investor Livingbridge, Sycurio continues to pioneer solutions that make payments secure and seamless.

Sycurio is seeking a Financial Controller responsible for overseeing all accounting activities, including, financial reporting and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements. Leading the accounting team to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the Accounting daily function, cash flow management and monitoring of working capital including collection of debts, timely invoicing of customers and payment of suppliers.

## Responsibilities

Financial Management & Reporting:

- Prepare accurate and timely financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets and cashflow statements.
- Ensure all financial reporting is compliant with accounting standards FRS102.
- Lead the preparation of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Lead on the production of our monthly board pack, providing detailed analysis and commentary on financial results.
- Monthly reporting to our PE investors.
- Monthly reporting for the banks.

Financial Controls & Compliance:

- Maintain and improve internal financial controls to safeguard company assets.
- Ensure compliance with local, state and UK tax requirements and liaise with auditors and tax authorities as needed.
- Day to day lead on the annual external annual audit

Cash Flow & Treasuring Management:

- Manage cash flow and working capital to optimize financial efficiency.
- Prepare weekly 2+12 weekly cashflow forecast.

Leadership & Team Development:

- Lead and manage the accounting team (currently a team of 3), ensuring strong performance and professional development.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement in the accounting function, implementing best practices.

Systems & Process Improvement:

- Oversee the financial systems and ensure their continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to automate processes and improve financial reporting systems for accuracy and efficiency.

Information Security Responsibilities:

- Responsible for assisting Sycurio in managing and maintaining certification for the following frameworks:
- ISO27001.
- PCI (Data Security Standard, Payment Application Data Security Standard, Software Security.
- Framework, Secure Software Lifecycle.)
- Cyber Essentials.
- HITRUST.

## Experience Required

- Strong ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
- Proven capability to remain composed under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Skilled in leading and managing a high-performing team.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel with demonstrated technical expertise.
- Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational abilities.
- CIMA or ACCA qualified, with a minimum of 3-5 years post-qualification experience (PQE).
- At least 5 years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience with NetSuite is preferred but not mandatory.

## About Sycurio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sycurio provides payment security and PCI compliance solutions that enable contact centers and enterprises to accept payments securely while removing sensitive card data from their infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Private Equity-Backed)
- **Headquarters**: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2009 (formerly known as Semafone)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Payment Security, PCI Compliance, Contact Center Security, Fraud Prevention
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises in healthcare, finance, insurance, travel, hospitality, retail, government, education, non-profits, and utilities
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Help enterprises put customer experience and payment security at the heart of everything they do, enabling organizations to safeguard every customer interaction across all channels.

## Products & Services
- **Sycurio Platform**: A software solution that collects sensitive payment card and personal data directly from the customer’s telephone keypad, keeping it out of the contact center environment to reduce PCI scope, prevent fraud, and protect against reputational damage. Available as an on-premises or cloud-based solution. (Source: [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/62372-89))
- **Channel Integration**: Solutions that work across voice, chat, email, and digital channels to ensure payment security in every customer interaction. (Source: [sycurio.com](https://sycurio.com/about-sycurio))
- **Partnership with Bluefin**: Joint offering for multi-channel payment security, combining Sycurio’s contact center expertise with Bluefin’s payment encryption technology. (Source: [prnewswire.co.uk](https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/bluefin-and-sycurio-announce-partnership-302285748.html))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of GBP 18.8 million (most recent fiscal year) | Total funding of $15.6 million across 10 rounds (Source: LinkedIn company data for revenue; [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/62372-89) for funding)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel-KKR, Livingbridge (Source: [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/62372-89))
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Appointed Nicholas Bown as Chief Security Officer (Sept 2025) (Source: [prweb.com](https://prweb.com/releases/sycurio-appoints-renowned-cybersecurity-and-risk-expert-nicholas-bown-as-chief-security-officer-302195105.html))
  - Partnership with Bluefin to strengthen multi-channel payment security (Oct 2024) (Source: [prnewswire.co.uk](https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/bluefin-and-sycurio-announce-partnership-302285748.html))
  - Headcount reported as 66 (LinkedIn) or 117 (PitchBook) – conflicting reports; LinkedIn shows a 22.3% year-over-year decline, while PitchBook indicates a larger workforce. (Sources: [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/sycurio) and [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/62372-89))

## Competitive Advantages
- **PCI Scope Reduction**: Sycurio’s technology keeps cardholder data out of the contact center, dramatically reducing the time and cost of PCI audits and lowering fraud risk.
- **Omnichannel Security**: Covers voice, chat, email, and digital interactions from a single platform, simplifying compliance across all customer touchpoints.
- **Established Trust**: Hundreds of enterprises across regulated industries rely on the solution; backed by top-tier private equity investors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Elevating customer experience (CX) while simplifying regulatory compliance and payment security; expanding into new channels and geographies; deepening integration with partners like Bluefin to offer end-to-end security.
- **Direction for growth**: Continuous innovation in payment technologies to help clients future-proof their payment strategies in a digital-first world. (Source: [sycurio.com](https://sycurio.com/about-sycurio))

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Emphasis on a “culture of trust” and empowering a diverse community; values include “Protect, People, Unite.” Team is described as determined, talented, and mission-driven to make the world safer. (Source: [sycurio.com](https://sycurio.com/about-sycurio))
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Hybrid roles available (e.g., Guildford, UK and Bengaluru, India) as seen on current job postings (Source: [jobs.lever.co/sycurio](https://jobs.lever.co/sycurio))
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Small team (66–117 employees) with cross-functional collaboration; leadership includes a Chief Revenue Officer, VP Marketing, and Head of Product; engineering and technical roles make up ~26% of the workforce. Employee rating: 3.2/5 (53 reviews) with work-life balance at 3.4 and culture at 3.1. (Source: [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/sycurio))

## Sources
1. [sycurio.com](https://sycurio.com/about-sycurio) – Company overview, mission, values
2. [sycurio.com](https://sycurio.com/leadership) – Leadership team
3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/sycurio) – Employee count, revenue, reviews, recent departures
4. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/62372-89) – Funding history, employee count, investor details
5. [jobs.lever.co/sycurio](https://jobs.lever.co/sycurio) – Current job postings, hybrid locations
6. [prweb.com](https://prweb.com/releases/sycurio-appoints-renowned-cybersecurity-and-risk-expert-nicholas-bown-as-chief-security-officer-302195105.html) – CSO appointment
7. [prnewswire.co.uk](https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/bluefin-and-sycurio-announce-partnership-302285748.html) – Bluefin partnership

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