Customer Operations Specialist (French or Spanish Speaking)

Full Time
London, UK
1 month ago

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

  About us

At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.  

GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 85,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris and Melbourne.

The role

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. 

Location

Hybrid / 1 day a week in the London office (usually Monday)

Working hours

Monday - Friday 8.00am - 5.00pm

We are a 24x7 operation and require our employees to demonstrate a willingness to work on some bank holidays.

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.

What excites you 
  • Support Spanish, 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
What excites us  
  • You are verbally fluent in English, Spanish and/or 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
(some of) The good stuff
  • Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
  • Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
  • Adaptive Working - Our hybrid workplace model fosters collaboration and flexibility, with in-office days determined at team level
  • Equity -all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
  • Parental leave -to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
  • 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 make it happen, working with urgency and taking personal accountability for getting things done. 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. Our Values form part of the GoCardless DNA, and are used to not only help us nurture and develop our culture, but to deliver impactful work that will help us to achieve our vision.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCees’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.

We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of July 2024;

45% identify as women

23% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other

10% identify as LGBTQIA+

9% identify as neurodiverse

2% identify as disabled

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 

Sustainability 

We’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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