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 offices in London and Leeds, and additional locations in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States.
At GoCardless, we're all about supporting you! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive and accessible. If you need extra support or adjustments, reach out to your Talent Partner — we’re here to help!
And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!
You’ll sit in our Data & Business Systems group and will work with technical and non-technical people across the whole company. You’ll collaborate closely with our team of talented Analysts, Data Scientists, ML/AI Engineers and System Admins, designing and delivering first-class analytics to the business.
We’re a large team with an extensive remit and expect every member to work with initiative and be driven, holding each other accountable and to a high standard. Joining our team, you’ll work in a team that strives to be the best they can be. You’ll work on complex projects across GC’s data & business systems stack.
You will enjoy being an analyst at GoCardless if:
- You’re looking to champion a great data culture within GC and in the wider data community;
- You enjoy collaborating and learning from people from various backgrounds and experiences;
- You want to feel proud of the work you’re doing and its impact on real customers.
Our technologies: We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task. Technologies we use across GoCardless include: Looker, Domo, Tableau, Python, Looker, Google Cloud Platform, dbt, Airflow, Supermetrics & Demandbase amongst others.
You’re not expected to have expertise in all these technologies. Members of our team have picked up the tools once they’ve started working with the team.
The RoleAt GoCardless, we excel in experimentation to optimise user acquisition, activation, and retention through continuous discovery and data-driven decision making. As a Growth Analyst, you will partner across Growth, Commercial Strategy, and the wider Data & Business Systems team to design and deliver analytics that shape our self-serve business. You will be instrumental in evaluating performance across the full funnel — from acquisition to monetisation — and in generating insights that influence strategic decisions.
What excites you
- Shape commercial measurement across the funnel, collaborating with Growth Marketing, Sales, Commercial Finance and Product to track and evaluate how our acquisition, activation, and monetisation initiatives drive incremental customer and revenue growth.
- You will translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations that inform go-to-market strategy, pricing, and self-serve optimisation
- Be responsible for defining how we understand return on investment & growth across growth initiatives
- Proactively identify the biggest growth opportunities in our key channels by delivering deep analysis into customer segments, lifetime values (LTVs), diminishing returns etc and helping the team to prioritise and implement.
- Applying quantitative analysis, generate actionable insights and drive the adoption of your proposed changes in marketing by influencing stakeholders
- Continuously innovate on the practices and the tools we rely on to deliver the right insights at the right decision points (A/B Testing, Analysis (SQL), Visualisation (Looker, Domo), Tracking (Amplitude), Automation (Python), AI (Gemini, Claude)
What excites us
- You bring strong analytical skills with experience linking data to revenue outcomes — whether through funnel analysis, cohort performance, pricing impact, or channel economics.
- You can distil complex analysis into clear recommendations for commercial and non-technical stakeholders, influencing strategy across Growth, Marketing, and Product.
- You have a bias for experimentation and discovery, always seeking ways to uncover new opportunities to improve acquisition, activation, retention, and monetisation.
- You have a background working in similar commercial analytics roles and have a deep understanding of the domain & and are very knowledgeable of growth strategies
- You are a self-starter, focused on results, with a demonstrated background in using analytics to drive the commercial strategy
- You have extensive experience owning and developing experiment processes, including running A/B tests, and have a very strong understanding of testing and experimental design
- You have extensive experience with data visualisation tools mentioned above and demonstrate storytelling ability with data in order to influence decision making and growth understanding
- You have advanced SQL skills and intermediate Python/R skills & have experience leveraging AI capabilities to enhance data analysis, automate tasks, and improve decision-making processes
We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.
Base salary range: €41,600 - €62,400
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.
- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme - gives you the option 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
- Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
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 & InclusionAs of April 2025, we had 806 employees (GeeCees) globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices.
To ensure that we're representative of the world around us - and to be able to review relevant benchmarks - we ask GeeCees to voluntarily disclose diversity data. This year, the proportion of GeeCees providing data increased to 88% (up from 79% in 2024). With regards to diversity within GoCardless, we can see GeeCees identifying as:
Asian, Black, Mixed or Other — 25%
Neurodiverse — 9%
LGBTQIA+ — 9%
Disabled — 1%
Average age — 33
Female — 45%
Male — 55%
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
SustainabilityWe’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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Skills Required
- Strong analytical skills linking data to revenue outcomes
- Experience with funnel analysis, cohort performance, and channel economics
- Ability to distil complex analysis into recommendations
- Experience in commercial analytics roles and knowledge of growth strategies
- Proficient in A/B testing and experimental design
- Experience with data visualization tools
- Advanced SQL skills and intermediate Python/R skills
- Experience leveraging AI capabilities for analysis
What We Do
GoCardless is on a mission to take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. We’ve created a global bank debit network, to rival credit and debit cards. On top of it, we’ve built a platform designed and optimised for taking invoice, subscription, membership and instalment payments. We now process $13bn in transactions a year and we’re proud to count 50,000 businesses around the world as our customers, from small businesses to household names like TripAdvisor and the Guardian. Our recurring payments platform integrates with the applications businesses use every day, giving businesses more visibility over payments and saving them huge amounts of time on tasks like payment reconciliation. We partner with more than 150 billing and subscription software partners globally, including Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Zuora and Salesforce. GoCardless has offices in London, Paris, Munich, Melbourne and San Francisco. We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors including Adams Street Partners, Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Notion Capital, Passion Capital, Salesforce Ventures Y Combinator.
