Customer Operations Representative, GoCardless
French Speaking, 1 Year FTC
£26.2-32.4k
Plus Equity
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Making payments easier for everyone
Open for applications
Making payments easier for everyone
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
£26.2-32.4k
Plus Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the world’s bank payment network.
Role
Who you are
- You are verbally fluent in English and French and can communicate clearly in writing in order to support customers via email or over the phone
- You have some previous experience working in a Customer Support role
- You care deeply about providing customers with a great experience whilst keeping calm under pressure
- You take pride in having strong attention to detail and always see tasks through to completion
- You're comfortable working with internal stakeholders at all levels, upholding our core product & compliance requirements with a problem-solving approach
- Ideally you have some understanding of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing
- Prior experience using tools like Zendesk or Looker is preferred, but not essential
What the job involves
- This role is part of the international Customer Operations group
- In this role, you will be responsible for supporting GoCardless customers with a range of enquiries from the more general to the most localised, including advising on the best way to use our products and services
- Providing an excellent level of customer service is very important to our team and will be a key part of the role
- The role is expected to combine customer & stakeholder management as well as query handling, making it an excellent career path in Customer Operations as both are very essential skills in fast-paced fintech
- We are a 24x7 operation and require our employees to demonstrate a willingness to work on some bank holidays
- Support French and English speaking customers through various channels e.g. email, phone and online meetings, ensuring the delivery of a first-class customer experience
- Advise merchants on best practices with the GoCardless product (see videos here)
- Handle internal escalations to relevant teams if necessary, such as Engineering, Privacy, Security, to develop product expertise and yield solutions for customers
- Provide support on ad-hoc translations and internal operations regarding the GoCardless product to colleagues, via internal chats and escalations
- Review and create GoCardless Partner accounts for businesses
- Take part in resolving incidents and sending larger comms to impacted customers, where relevant
- Supporting the company in delivering projects, both internal and external to the Customer Support team
- Document procedures and learnings to keep building internal knowledge to optimise scalable operations
- Monday - Friday 8.00am - 5.00pm
- As part of your training in your first week, it will be fully office based 10.00am - 6.00pm before transitioning to your regular working pattern in week 2
Our take
GoCardless has emerged to facilitate recurring payments, with a focus on streamlining the subscription economy. After securing $75M in 2019 for international expansion, the company now operates in over 30 countries, processing over $130B annually across more than 2500 for 100,000 businesses.
Recent advancements include the acquisition of Nordigen in 2022, enabling GoCardless to leverage OpenBanking functionality and establish a robust platform for direct bank-to-bank payments. The company also achieved an impressive $312 million in Series G funding in 2022. With a strategic eye on the future, GoCardless introduced GC Embed, a white-labeling product granting other payment providers access to its premier bank payment platform.
This success is underscored by the company's commitment to innovation, exemplified by its 2019 partnership with TransferWise, integrating foreign exchange rates into its services. GoCardless continues to evolve, navigating the complex landscape of recurring payments and staying ahead of competitors like Stripe and Square, who are beginning to enter the subscription economy. With a global footprint spanning the UK, France, the US, and ANZ, GoCardless remains at the forefront of reshaping how businesses manage and process recurring payments on a massive scale.
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"I love that we have an environment of trying new things and if it doesn't work, it's okay, as long as you learn from it. This has enabled me to..."
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2022
$312m
SERIES G
Feb 2021
$105m
SERIES F
Total funding: $634.3m
Company benefits
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental pay
- 27 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work-away scheme
- Health insurance
- 4 additional wellbeing days off per year
- Equity grant for all permanent employees
Company values
- Start With Why: We believe you can only do a job properly when you know why you are doing it. Understanding why we care about the problem motivates us to keep going until we’ve solved it
- Make it Happen: We work with urgency, and take personal accountability for getting things done in pursuit of our vision.
- Care Deeply: We care deeply about our impact on the world and those around us
- Act with Integrity: We do what’s right even when no one is watching. We don't see doing the right things as a choice — we act with integrity regardless of the cost
- Be Humble: We act without ego and don’t let excuses get in the way of achieving our goals. We believe life's too short for self-importance
Company HQ
Clerkenwell, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Hiroki Takeuchi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Hiroki and Matt met when they were consultants. They started GoCardless during Y Combinator. Hiroki was previously a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
Matt Robinson
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Started company supplying waiters to events while at school, before joining McKinsey. Founded Nested Estate Agents in 2015 where they currently serve as CEO.
People progressing
Beccy joined GoCardless as a Sales Development Representative in May 2018 and has since had 3 promotions to become Senior Manager.
Steph joined GoCardless as an Intern in the Compliance team 4 years ago and she's now the Manager of the team.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GoCardless
Lena Tailor (Director of D&I)
- Given the large number of hires we have been making in recent months, we have continuously reviewed both our hiring processes and channels to eliminate bias. We’ve introduced programs that attract diverse talent and we continuously seek to create hiring experiences that are fair, transparent and accessible by all
- We are working on creating a transparent framework for how we grow and develop talent in a scaling organisation. This will include bringing more clarity on internal career opportunities and provide clear expectations on the behaviours we want to see aligned to our values and commitment to building an inclusive organisation
- We have introduced systematic processes to help ensure compensation decisions are data-driven, fair and competitive. We have also invested in Reward capability and expertise to ensure we bring pay equity into every step of the employee journey
- Thanks to these employee-led groups we have been able to further our efforts in voluntary diversity data collection this year, to develop support for parents and carers, offer community mentoring opportunities in partnership with Career Accelerator, help to raise awareness and empathy during significant events of the past year, and importantly, offer more employees a community of people with whom they share experiences and interests
- To strengthen our commitment to D&I we have recently appointed our first Director of Diversity & Inclusion, an experienced culture change leader, which will allow us to have a more strategic and systematic approach to building a diverse and inclusive organisation for the long term and as we scale
- The Director will work with the executive team and ERGs to define clear D&I targets that GoCardless will commit to achieving over the next three years, and to develop a structured roadmap of initiatives aligned with those targets
- This will create greater clarity and accountability across the entire organisation on D&I progress
- We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022 - Female Employees - 46% - Ethnic background - 32% - Identify as LGBTQIA - 10% - Neurodivergent - 9%
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