Corporate Strategy Associate, GoCardless
Offers equity
1+ day a week in office
Making payments easier for everyone
Job no longer available
Making payments easier for everyone
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Offers equity
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the world’s bank payment network.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5 years of relevant strategy & operations experience (for example, as part of a top-tier consulting firm, investment bank, or high-growth scale-up)
- Structured thinker, with experience developing frameworks to tackle abstract and ambiguous problems
- Ability to story tell clearly & confidently with senior stakeholders (verbal & written)
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Highly motivated self-starter comfortable dealing with uncertainty & seeks autonomy
- Strong team player with a bias for getting things done
What the job involves
- The Strategy & M&A team is a centralised group designed to support the business with strategic long-term and short-term, project-based work across organic or inorganic initiatives
- Reporting to the Director of Corporate & Commercial strategy, this role will work closely with the Exec and Senior Leadership Teams to drive the creation, implementation and oversight of the overall strategic direction and vision of GoCardless
- Your primary focus will be on analysing market trends, identifying growth opportunities, and optimising business performance
- You will work closely with the Director to establish long-term goals and objectives, as well as provide guidance on key strategic decisions and deliver strategic initiatives in a fast and pragmatic way
- Support the development and implementation of GCs corporate strategy to drive business growth and profitability
- Conduct market research and analysis to identify emerging trends and competitive landscapes
- Collaborate with senior management to define short-term and long-term strategic goals
- Monitor industry developments and recommend adjustments to the company's strategic plans
- Support and monitor cross-functional teams in the execution of strategic initiatives
- Input into potential partnerships, acquisitions, and investments to support the company's growth objectives
- Prepare and present strategic plans and recommendations to key stakeholders
- Owning specific standalone strategic problems that require framing & coordination across groups, including driving analysis and creating presentations
- Partnering with nearly all groups within GC to enable the delivery of strategic company objectives
- In some cases, you will own the delivery of specific programs (e.g. when those programs are particularly cross-functional or complex), and will be defining scope, project plans and workstreams, assembling project teams, and driving execution cross-functionally
- Partnering with specific functions within GC to help them solve complex, strategic questions specific to their area in an internal consulting capacity
- On an annual basis, supporting to refresh our 3-year strategy created in Jun-23
- Contributing to the alignment of GCs Long Term Plan & Budget to GCs 1-year strategy
- Collaborate with senior management to ensure the long-term vision is adequately aligned with the corporate direction
Salary benchmarks
Our take
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 key regions, processing over $35B annually for 80,000 businesses.
Recent advancements include the acquisition of Nordigen in 2022, enabling GoCardless to leverage OpenBanking functionality and establish a robust platform for direct bank-to-bank payments. The company also achieved an impressive $312 million in Series G funding in 2022.With a strategic eye on the future, GoCardless introduced GC Embed, a white-labeling product granting other payment providers access to its premier bank payment platform.
This success is underscored by the company's commitment to innovation, exemplified by its 2019 partnership with TransferWise, integrating foreign exchange rates into its services. GoCardless continues to evolve, navigating the complex landscape of recurring payments and staying ahead of competitors like Stripe and Square, who are beginning to enter the subscription economy. With a global footprint spanning the UK, France, the US, and ANZ, GoCardless remains at the forefront of reshaping how businesses manage and process recurring payments on a massive scale.
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45% female employees
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"I love that we have an environment of trying new things and if it doesn't work, it's okay, as long as you learn from it. This has enabled me to..."
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2022
$312m
SERIES G
Feb 2021
$105m
SERIES F
Total funding: $634.3m
Company benefits
- 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 employees
Company values
- Start With Why: We believe you can only do a job properly when you know why you are doing it. Understanding why we care about the problem motivates us to keep going until we’ve solved it
- Make it Happen: We work with urgency, and take personal accountability for getting things done in pursuit of our vision.
- Care Deeply: We care deeply about our impact on the world and those around us
- Act with Integrity: We do what’s right even when no one is watching. We don't see doing the right things as a choice — we act with integrity regardless of the cost
- Be Humble: We act without ego and don’t let excuses get in the way of achieving our goals. We believe life's too short for self-importance
Company HQ
Clerkenwell, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Hiroki Takeuchi
(CEO)Hiroki and Matt met when they were consultants. They started GoCardless during Y Combinator. After a number of years as co-founder, Matt left to start Nested.
Matt Robinson
(Board Member)Started company supplying waiters to events while at school, before joining McKinsey. Founded Nested Estate Agents in 2015 where they currently serve as CEO.
People progressing
Beccy joined GoCardless as a Sales Development Representative in May 2018 and has since had 3 promotions to become Senior Manager.
Steph joined GoCardless as an Intern in the Compliance team 4 years ago and she's now the Manager of the team.
Diversity & Inclusion at GoCardless
Lena Tailor (Director of D&I)
- Given the large number of hires we have been making in recent months, we have continuously reviewed both our hiring processes and channels to eliminate bias. We’ve introduced programs that attract diverse talent and we continuously seek to create hiring experiences that are fair, transparent and accessible by all
- We are working on creating a transparent framework for how we grow and develop talent in a scaling organisation. This will include bringing more clarity on internal career opportunities and provide clear expectations on the behaviours we want to see aligned to our values and commitment to building an inclusive organisation
- We have introduced systematic processes to help ensure compensation decisions are data-driven, fair and competitive. We have also invested in Reward capability and expertise to ensure we bring pay equity into every step of the employee journey
- Thanks to these employee-led groups we have been able to further our efforts in voluntary diversity data collection this year, to develop support for parents and carers, offer community mentoring opportunities in partnership with Career Accelerator, help to raise awareness and empathy during significant events of the past year, and importantly, offer more employees a community of people with whom they share experiences and interests
- To strengthen our commitment to D&I we have recently appointed our first Director of Diversity & Inclusion, an experienced culture change leader, which will allow us to have a more strategic and systematic approach to building a diverse and inclusive organisation for the long term and as we scale
- The Director will work with the executive team and ERGs to define clear D&I targets that GoCardless will commit to achieving over the next three years, and to develop a structured roadmap of initiatives aligned with those targets
- This will create greater clarity and accountability across the entire organisation on D&I progress
- We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022 - Female Employees - 46% - Ethnic background - 32% - Identify as LGBTQIA - 10% - Neurodivergent - 9%
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