Senior Process Analyst

Summary

Join GoCardless as a Finance Transformation Manager, reporting to the VP Financial Control and Enterprise Risk. You will optimize Finance operations, ensure control effectiveness, and deliver Finance transformation objectives. A significant portion of your role involves mapping, redesigning, and documenting processes and controls. Collaborate with Finance process and control owners, leveraging your expertise to minimize their time commitment. Implement process and control improvements, including automation. Interact with various teams, primarily Financial Control, Billing & Credit, Procurement, and Management Reporting. This role offers the opportunity to own performance improvement, enhance operational effectiveness, and lead a program to provide assurance over control maturity.

Requirements

• A Performance Improvement, Finance Transformation, Internal control assurance or Operational Finance background in a Big 4 consultancy, joining straight from practice or having spent some time in industry
• A solid understanding of Finance operations, processes and the role of IT systems e.g. ERPs
• A qualified accountant or someone highly proficient in financial and management accounting
• You will be an expert in the application of financial control frameworks (e.g. SOX) and skilled in designing, implementing and testing the effectiveness of controls
• Skilled in tackling big problems with a structured approach, incorporating infrastructure development, automation, designing customer-facing processes, and monitoring
• You have excellent communication skills and are able to bring the cross-functional team with you as you develop and implement new processes and controls
• Self sufficient and able to plan and prioritise work with minimal supervision

Responsibilities

• Optimize the efficiency of Finance operations and ensuring the ongoing effectiveness of controls
• Deliver our Finance transformation objectives
• Mapping, re-designing and documenting processes and controls
• Collaborate closely with the process and control owners in Finance, but will leverage your expertise to limit the demands on their time
• Accountable for the implementation of process and control improvements, including automation provided by existing or new systems
• Your work will require interaction with other teams across the business, but engagement will predominantly be with the Financial Control, Billing & Credit, Procurement and Management Reporting teams

Benefits

• Wellbeing : Dedicated support and medical cover to keep you healthy
• Work Away Scheme : Work from anywhere for up to 90 days in any 12-month period
• Adaptive Working : Our hybrid model offers flexibility, with in-office days determined by your team
• Equity : All permanently employed GeeCees get equity to share in our success
• Parental leave : Tailored leave to support your life's great adventure
• Time Off : Generous holidays, 3 volunteer days, and 4 wellness days annually