Strategic Planning Senior Analyst
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About us
GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real-time payments and open banking. GoCardless processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions.
We are headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia and the United States.
The role
The Strategic Planning & Analysis team supports Management in making key strategic decisions through modelling GoCardless’ long term business plan, as well as things like investment cases and unit economics. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Strategic Finance & Projects, you will also be involved in a number of projects including corporate finance activities.
What excites you
- Modelling complex scenarios and unit economics to enable key strategic decisions of the business
- Drawing insights from financial models and being excited to present the ‘so what’ to a range of stakeholders
- Opportunity to work on projects such as corporate finance activities and acquisition integrations
- Working with a wide range of stakeholders to develop a variety of investment cases, including ROI decisions on new product investment
What excites us
- Min 3 years experience in a strategic finance related role e.g. investment banking, another fintech, accountancy firm
- Experience in financial modelling, with confidence applying this to complex scenarios and the ability to draw insightful conclusions from the output
- Clear and confident communicator, with the ability to manage a wide variety of stakeholders including C-Suite
- Comfortable with ambiguity, with a pragmatic and commercial mindset
- Strong motivation with the ability to work quickly and accurately to tight deadlines
- Accounting / Finance qualifications would be advantageous, but not essential
Salary range: £85,600 - £128,400
Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.
We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.
(some of) The good stuff
- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period (in accordance with our work away policy)
- Adaptive Working - Our hybrid workplace model fosters collaboration and flexibility, with in-office days determined at team level
- Equity - all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
- Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
Life at GoCardless
We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We make it happen, working with urgency and taking personal accountability for getting things done. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Our Values form part of the GoCardless DNA, and are used to not only help us nurture and develop our culture, but to deliver impactful work that will help us to achieve our vision.
Diversity & Inclusion
We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCees’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.
We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of July 2024;
45% identify as women
23% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other
10% identify as LGBTQIA+
9% identify as neurodiverse
2% identify as disabled
If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report
Sustainability
We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan here.
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