Finance Analyst, GoCardless

• 3-4 years experience as a Finance Business Partner or Analyst within a FP&A function, ideally working with Product / Technology teams
• Willingness to learn basic principles of product lifecycle and approach to programme management. Including scoping of use cases, data requirements, dependencies and working in sprints
• Experience working with a range of cross functional stakeholders, balancing their needs and being proficient in negotiating expectations
• Basic understanding of, or willingness to learn, labour cost capitalisation (ideally in a tech business)
• Expert level in Excel / Google sheets, including large data sets and analysis
• Experience working on forecasting / budget cycles including financial modelling
• Strong attention to detail, with a proactive and collaborative approach to working and ability to tailor communications for varying levels of finance literacy
• Motivated self starter who is comfortable managing changing priorities and working independently in a fast paced and changing environment

• This is a great opportunity to join a high calibre finance team and make a tangible difference to the quality of our analysis and insights. You’ll be a valued business partner to our Product organisation and the dedicated Finance resource for this team
• This role will take the lead on providing financial support to help steer our Product Groups as well as understanding the cost drivers in the Product team and the relationship these have with company success metrics
• Work with Product and Finance stakeholders to understand Product team cost drivers and their connection to team success metrics
• Report monthly operating expenditure analysis with accompanying commentary to respective product group leadership teams
• Scope full suite of Finance support for the Product team and take the lead in developing analysis that drives decision making
• Partly forward deployed into ‘Product Operations’, a Product team that supports the wider department in efficiently delivering strategic priorities
• Support teams in planning their headcount in the short and long term, balancing available budget with business needs
• Work with Product team leadership to understand how Finance can adapt and improve our ways of working to provide better insights
• Lead on the labour cost capitalisation process by gathering project data throughout the year and liaising with external tax consultants annually to determine a cost of time spent on R&D
• Respond to ad-hoc requests for data and analysis

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental pay
• 27 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
• Work-away scheme
• Health insurance
• 4 additional wellbeing days off per year
• Equity grant for all permanent employees

Total funding: $634.3m

GoCardless has emerged to facilitate recurring payments, with a focus on streamlining the subscription economy. After securing $75M in 2019 for international expansion, the company now operates in over 30 countries, processing over $130B annually across more than 2500 for 100,000 businesses.