Junior Data Analyst

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.