Finance Business Partner (Product) Full Time

NYCA, Inc.
About us

At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.

GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris and Melbourne.

The role

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.

What excites you:

• Be the face of finance to our Product teams, own and build this relationship across all levels, with scope for this extending to the CTO and CPO.
• 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.

What excites us:

• 3+ 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.

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
• Adaptive Working – allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
• Equity – all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution
• 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 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. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work.

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 ‘GeeCee’s’ 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 June 2023;

42% identify as women

28% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other

9% identify as LGBTQIA+

9% identify as neurodiverse

2% identify as disabled

We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

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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