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PROOF is seeking a full-time Tax Manager. PROOF is a fast-paced and growing venture capital fund family with over $400 million of capital raised since mid-2016. We raise capital and form new entities on a regular basis to invest in later-stage successful businesses, most of which will eventually go public or be purchased by other companies. We are seeking a candidate who is experienced with using tax software to prepare partnership returns. This individual will have an opportunity for growth by expanding their contributions to our firm on higher-level partnership tax issues.

The ideal candidate will have experience with understanding financial information and using that information to prepare Federal and state tax returns. They should be well organized, professional, responsible, a quick-learner, and a self-starter comfortable working independently in addition to being part of a team.

Here at PROOF we currently manage over 100 entities: a mix of 3 venture capital funds (7 entities), 3 general partnerships, 1 management company, 5 master entities, over 30 Fund special purpose vehicles, and over 60 co-investment special purpose vehicles. With guidance from our CFO, the Tax Manager will facilitate the timely and accurate production of over 2,000 annual Schedules K-1 (1065), Federal and state tax filings for the entities we produe internally, and will liaison with our outside accounting firm (BDO) on the 10 entities we outsource. The Tax Manager will also assist with international tax work, as needed, using international tax firms.

We continually add new entities and new investors to our reporting system. The Tax Manager will ensure our internal tax reporting system scales with our business.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelors Degree – Accounting degree a plus
• 5 years working in tax return preparation
• Experience in using tax software for limited liability companies (experience using import tool from Excel into tax software is a plus)
• Proficiency in Excel (not just a basic working knowledge) is required
• Familiarity with the tax code as it applies to investment partnerships
• Superior organizational abilities with a keen focus on detail and 100% accuracy
• Ability to work on a peer level with outside accounting firm on tax matters
• Ability to prioritize work while balancing team and individual responsibilities
• Able to identify potential issues and risks in various Federal and state tax reporting requirements, as well as occasional international tax issues
• Works well under pressure and deadlines

Location
PROOF currently maintains offices in Reston, Virginia. Local residence in Virginia, Washington, D.C., or Maryland is preferred, although not required.

If interested in applying for this position, please email mel@proof.vc.

The Portfolio Analyst is a part of the American Express Ventures team based in New York, NY.  The Amex Ventures team plays a key role in developing and executing long-term corporate strategic initiatives which contribute to American Express’ market leadership and growth. The team invests in innovative startups to accelerate American Express’ efforts in consumer commerce, B2B services and to enhance enterprise capabilities.

Job Responsibilities:

In this exciting opportunity, the analyst will be an integral part of the Ventures group by supporting portfolio reporting, helping manage transaction related processes, and deriving insights from our investment activity.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for assisting with portfolio reporting, including updates to CFO and other senior management, as well as quarterly portfolio review processes (ex. impairment, mark-to-market)
• Helping maintain and manage Venture’s Portfolio database
• Analyzing data from the portfolio, market, and industry to help provide insights to senior management
• Tracking fund performance against benchmarks, goals and success metrics
• Documenting portfolio and transaction related standards
• Assisting in the coordination across Finance / Legal / Compliance, and the broader Ventures team, to fulfill reporting requirements
• Assist with investment data requests for Venture’s business partners
• Ad hoc projects regarding fund operations and performance.
• 1-2 years previous experience must include financial background (familiarity with financial statements)
• Comfortable working with large data sets & synthesizing insights
• Strong communication skills
• Financial, analytical and valuation skills
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with others and drive results
• Interest in FinTech and startup investing
• Bachelor’s degree required

If interested in this position, please apply here. 

Description

The Invesment Analyst will be a part of the American Express Ventures team. The Amex Ventures team plays a key role in developing and executing long-term corporate strategic initiatives which contribute to American Express’ market leadership and growth. The team invests in innovative startups to accelerate American Express’ efforts in consumer commerce, B2B services and to enhance enterprise capabilities such as data analytics and security. Team members work with senior management, C-level executives and business leaders across the company to execute equity investments, both domestically and internationally. The team also initiates and executes non-organic business development and strategic initiatives.

Job Responsibilities:

The Investment Analyst will play a key role in day-to-day investment sourcing and will be responsible for meeting a broad set of startups to identify emerging trends and track industry developments across our focus areas. In addition, the Investment Analyst will work closely with the investment team on all aspects of the deal execution process.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Actively meeting with companies through a variety of channels to develop a robust startup investment pipeline
• Researching, identifying and tracking industry trends and mapping out comprehensive competitive landscape for your coverage area
• Contribute to deal evaluation and investment memo preparation including market sizing, competitive analysis, financial analysis, etc
• Contribute to all aspects of the due diligence process by working closely with startup’s management team and internal key stakeholders
• Keeping up to date with portfolio company developments for on-going monitoring and tracking
• At least 1+ years of experience in roles where you have conducted in-depth financial analysis or business evaluations; investment banking or management consulting, startup operations or venture capital experience a plus
• Highly proficient in Excel and strong corporate finance and business analysis skills; note a financial statement analysis assessment will be administered as part of the interview process
• Strong written & verbal communication skills. Highly proficient in powerpoint with a track record of creating clear and compelling presentations
• Track record of being self-reliant, and the ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
• Detail-oriented with a strong ability to manage multiple timelines and complex processes
• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, economics, engineering, computer science or related field

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

If interested in this position, please apply here. 

Founded in 2017, Toyota Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups around the world in frontier and climate technologies. Our mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring ground-breaking technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $500M under management, we’ve invested in over 40 companies, including Bipi, Blackmore, Carbice, Intuition Robotics, Joby Aviation, May Mobility, Revel, SLAMcore, and Ziva Dynamics.

Our firm is growing and we are hiring an analyst for the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund to help source and screen innovative companies. Along with a bachelor’s degree and two years or more of relevant work experience, the analyst role requires excellent communication and research skills and an understanding of industry trends.

Our team values acting with integrity, being humble but bold, and keeping it weird. We’re also committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within our team, portfolio, and the larger VC industry. Whether you’re a recent(ish) grad looking to cut your teeth in the VC field, or someone with a bit more experience under your belt, if you enjoy teamwork and are looking to make an impact, we look forward to hearing from you!

Please note that we are working remotely for now, but this role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Responsibilities:

• Network and take part in industry and VC events, organizations
• Analyze the latest industry trends
• Source and screen potential target companies
• Participate in due diligence, market analyses, and industry deep dives

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in related position
• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Entrepreneurial and well-networked
• Experience in venture capital, private equity or other investment firm a plus
• Analytical proficiency in Google Docs or Excel
• Strong communications and research skills
• Passionate about climate technology space
• Team player

If interested in applying for this position, please visit here. 

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. We focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success. Come and be a part of this success.

Expressions of interest are sought for VC Associate(s) and Senior Associate(s) within BHP Ventures, our in-house venture capital investment unit. The VC Associate will be a critical member of our global team, driving end-to-end investing activities from deal sourcing through to investment execution, portfolio company management, team operations, and external and internal stakeholder engagements.

 

A little about BHP…

BHP is a world-leading natural resources company, with more than 80,000 people across 90 locations globally, primarily operating in Australia, Asia and the Americas.

Our purpose is to bring people and resources together to build a better world. We will do this through our business activities, which provide the natural resources our world needs to thrive, and creating social value across for all our stakeholders through our contributions to the environment and our society.

The commodities we produce are the building blocks of the modern world, from the iron ore needed to create steel for construction of buildings, infrastructure and wind turbines, to the nickel powering the electric vehicle revolution, the copper enabling the next generation of renewable infrastructure and the potash used in fertilisers to support the global food supply chain.

And about BHP Ventures…

We are a dedicated internal venture capital investment unit, established to build and manage a portfolio of technology investments that not only help accelerate BHP’s innovation activities today, but also seeds future growth options for the company to thrive for decades ahead.

We work closely with teams across BHP and with our outside partners to generate opportunities to support the company’s most important strategic priorities. Our success depends on our ability to engage as closely with our C-suite (Executive Leadership Team, or ELT) as we do with our start-ups and drive common outcomes.

Our portfolio is oriented around growth… securing the future growth of our current operations by accessing cutting-edge technologies and leading capabilities, growing our resource base in nickel, copper and other “future-facing” commodities by discovering and/or recovering resource first, growing our business into new verticals and horizontals, and seeding potential new business lines, such as carbon removal.Our team is global, our portfolio is global, and our vision is big. If we are successful, our early-stage investment strategy will find and develop leading technologies and talent from across the world which, when combined with the power of BHP’s current capabilities, can together unlock significant value for our companies, partners and for BHP and its stakeholders.

And now a bit about you…

Candidates should have excellent quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and enjoy using those skills to solve complex problems.

We don’t need (or expect) you have to have subject-matter depth in mining-tech or climate-tech, although of course it cannot hurt! You must, however, be a fast learner, a careful listener, curious about everything, and able to quickly assess a range of technologies… Can you navigate from quantum physics to equipment autonomy to carbon capture and sequestration, quickly determine what could be real and what is likely to just be hype… all in one day?

You must be comfortable and thrive in a fast-paced and unstructured working environment, which means you have a strong bias for action and impeccable attention to detail. You’ll need to take initiative and be resourceful… BHP is a big, global company, but we are a small, nimble team engaging with rock star start-ups… and you will be expected to make that integration “work”.

To be good at this, you will clearly understand the value of relationships and drive yourself to build and maintain your own broad network, internally and externally. That means being comfortable picking up the phone and calling someone; it means knowing how to write an engaging email, being responsive but not overly aggressive. It means listening to what people are actually saying and knowing how to see through the noise to spot the win-win outcome.

Perhaps most importantly, you need passion… passion about sustainable business practices and investing for global impact, passion for driving outcomes as part of an awesome team and passion about building your own career as a prolific investment professional.

Education and university qualifications are useful and great results are a given, but we aren’t hiring academic transcripts or pieces of paper… we want you for you!

What will you do?

Every day you show up at work, be that at home, in the office or anywhere else, you’ll demonstrate a commitment to BHP’s Values… that means an overriding commitment to health, safety, respect, integrity, environmental responsibility and sustainable development and an obligation to comply with Our Charter Values.

Your key roles will include early-stage company assessment and support, including:

• Qualifying, prioritizing, managing, screening, and tracking a high volume of new investment opportunities;
• Undertaking independent research into technology areas in which BHP Ventures could target through its investments;
• Gaining fluency and meaningful exposure to tech and the tech investing ecosystem to assess the attractiveness of potential opportunities, having regard to the strategic value BHP could realize through an investment and the commercial appeal of the investment;
• Providing high-quality, insightful, and efficient due diligence as needed including financial analysis and modelling, market research, competitive analysis, and customer interviews.
• Authoring investment memos and helping manage the investment processes from start to finish including coordinating with legal and finance teams.

You will also be pivotal to ensuring world class corporate venture operations, including by:

• Supporting ongoing portfolio management;
• Enhancing the team’s internal efficiencies and communications by identifying opportunities to continually improve how we do our work;
• Communicating and collaborating with the utmost respect and integrity with all internal and external stakeholders;
• Creating content, events, and more to enhance BHP Ventures brand;
• Developing key relationships across BHP stakeholders

By sitting within our broader Portfolio Strategy & Development function, which is accountable for BHP’s corporate strategy and its growth agenda, you may also have the opportunity to rotate to other teams critical in developing and delivering BHP’s most important strategic priorities.

Some other important points…

At BHP, we recognize that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people.

We know there are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

Important

The safety of BHP’s people and our candidates is our number one priority. Due to the unfolding circumstances of COVID-19 and the Government regulations in place to deal with the pandemic, your working location and/or roster as advertised in this advert may be temporarily subject to change whilst the government regulations are in place. This is to ensure the health safety of our workforce, and to implement effective social distancing measures. These changes if applicable will be discussed at screening and interview stage

If interested in this position, please apply here.