Finance Systems Analyst

The Mission

To enable and empower everyone at GoCardless to do their best work through innovation - with simple, reliable tools wrapped in world class support

The Role

The Business Systems & IT Team at GoCardless cares deeply about the experience we provide, from day one, we act with people’s best interest at heart: we enable GoCardless’ employees’ to focus on what matters most to them either automating daily needs or enabling them to self-serve, we provide them with the best tools to do their best work.

As a Business Systems Analyst, working primarily with the Finance Team, you will be responsible for ensuring our finance systems support key business processes increasing efficiency, providing better data, and adding integration to allow the efficient flow through multiple applications and systems.

The ideal candidate will be able to work with stakeholders to understand the current landscape, and then assess, design and execute processes, technical changes and projects to make us more efficient. You will be exceptional at capturing requirements, identifying problems or opportunities for system / process improvement. You will be an excellent communicator and care deeply about internal customer experience.

In this role you will

Work with Finance Team to understand current business processes, looking for opportunities to improve and automate them

Gather stakeholder requirements and work with peers to build a roadmap

Help build business cases to support change/ project prioritisation

Have Technical ownership of internal systems and tools used by the Finance Team - ensuring where applicable these systems are integrated.

Own design and execution of technical changes to support Finance strategy

Research, analyse and implement new tools to optimise our system architecture

Create and maintain documentation for these systems and processes

Work with other technology functions within the organisation to achieve key success criteria

Work with BI, Servicedesk and Corporate Services teams

You will also be a contributor to

Defining and measuring success against key operational metrics for Finance

The growth and scalability wider IT and Business Systems team

The main technologies you will work with include:

Netsuite

PBCS / Management Reporting

Billing System

Expensify

Looker

Jira

Procurement tools

Contract Lifecycle Management - Ideally

Experience you will have:

Leading and delivering change in Finance systems

Helping to design finance related processes

Helping to design finance system architecture

Understanding of P2P and Billing processes

Understanding of GL systems

What we have to offer

Focus on your growth and development: regular discussions with your manager about your personal goals, feedback, coaching, learning and conference budget.

A clear career progression: paths for managers and individual contributors, opportunities for growth and leadership aligned to our competencies framework.

Ownership of Stakeholder relations with Finance

A fantastic opportunity to help shape and deliver the finance systems in a growing FinTech as we review our current architecture and make plans for the future

Good work-life balance

Our team comes from a range of backgrounds, and we welcome diversity. Even if your experience doesn’t tick all of the boxes, please apply - we’d love to hear from you.