Junior Data Analyst

About us

GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect, manage and send bank payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking. With US$130bn+ processed annually across 30+ countries, we handle recurring and one-off payments without the chasing, stress, or expensive fees. Our end-to-end payment platform also features AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud, alongside connections to over 350 platforms businesses use everyday.

We are headquartered in the UK, with teams and operations spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

The Role

We are looking for a Junior Data Analyst to help support our growing business and build out our data capabilities.  You will be working with the Analytics team, collaborating with teams across business services to build efficiencies that support day-to-day functions. You will support people across the company by building self-serve analytics content across our BI tooling - we’re using dbt, Looker, DOMO, and Amplitude at GoCardless. You’ll support the dashboards and underpinning models that enable deep insight into a fast-growing business and develop an expert knowledge of all areas of our operation. You’ll help people in all areas of GoCardless make better, faster, more data-driven decisions. Analytics is part of our Data & Business Systems Group, which at its heart exists to maximise day-to-day efficiency and productivity within GoCardless. We do this by bringing together teams that span data & technology to provide a 1 stop shop for our customers.

 

The main elements of this role will involve:

• Data collection: Identifying relevant sources, specifying data requirements, and retrieving the data. 
• Data cleaning: Inspecting the data, handling missing values and outliers, transforming the data, standardising formats, and validating the cleaned data 
• Data visualisation: Using visualisations to tell data stories to a variety of audiences.
• Data analysis: Interpreting results, finding insights, and spotting trends and fluctuations.
• Documentation: Documenting the information and content that will be consumed and processed. 
• Assisting the team: Helping members of the team across various analytics projects, namely building dashboards, supporting pipelines, data cleansing, and providing insights, to name a few.

What excites you 

• Kicking off a data-related career 
• You’re a self-starter - you take initiative in spotting opportunities and finding ways to solve problems with data
• You’re used to sharing your technical work with others around you
• Working on data and pipeline improvements
• Working within the data team managing data support tickets
• Opportunities to learn more about data operations, engineering, and analysis

 

What excites us  

• Interest in data, analytics, dashboard building
• Attention to detail & and an ability to solve complex problems 
• Great team-working skills
• Strong written & verbal English
• You can communicate your work clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• An understanding of how important clean, accurate, and trusted data is for running a business
• A basic understanding of SQL and Data / BI tools
• Preferred: An understanding of working in an agile environment at pace

 

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply. 

Base salary range: 20,000 EUR - 30,000 EUR

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.

(some of) The good stuff

• 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
• 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’)

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

As 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

Sustainability

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. Check out our sustainability action plan here.

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