Credit Risk Analyst

GoCardless

GoCardless

IT
London, UK
Posted on Jan 14, 2025

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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 85,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We are headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Australia, France, Latvia and the United States.

The role

You will be ensuring that GC adopts, implements and maintains innovative and appropriate credit controls with the aim of managing credit losses whilst supporting revenue growth.

As a Credit Risk Analyst, you will play a crucial role in assessing and managing the credit risk associated with GC’s merchant base. You will be responsible for evaluating creditworthiness, conducting risk assessments, and developing creative strategies to mitigate potential credit losses.

You are expected to be able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, such as sales, risk, product and C-suite. You will be representing the credit risk team across different functions and will be required to.

What excites you

  • Understanding new and existing business models with meticulous attention to detail
  • Getting underneath and looking beyond the numbers when assessing creditworthiness for SMEs and Large corporates
  • Staying ahead of key market trends and being able to clearly translate this into an impact on GC’s credit risk
  • Thinking outside the box to develop and create mitigation strategies to manage financial exposure
  • Not accepting the status quo in favour of improving and optimising operational efficiency
  • Communicating complexities into a simple concise form

What excites us

  • Deep and broad knowledge in analysing financial statements for SMEs and Large Corporates in order to make effective credit risk decisions, with the ability to compute financial ratios whilst applying industry context (2-4+ years experience)
  • Financial services, banking experience with payments being a bonus
  • Ambitious individual with a constant drive to strive for excellence with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Meticulous attention to detail is a must
  • Degree educated in a relevant discipline (Finance, accounting, business)
  • A strong communicator, and collaborator with the ability to influence stakeholders across the business
  • Able to prioritise work to meet tight deadlines
  • Fluent in English, with French, German and Spanish being a bonus

(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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