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 75,000+ 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

You will be an integral part of a collaborative and rapidly growing legal team at a fast-paced fintech scale-up.  As a member of a busy legal team you will also contribute to team-wide initiatives and work with people from across our geos (including UK, France, Latvia, US and ANZ). 

What excites you:

• Reviewing supplier contracts, using GoCardless’ playbook as the standard, extracting and recording key information from contracts
• Updating playbooks, process documents and contract templates where required, reviewing forms used to onboard suppliers and highlighting key risk areas
• Conducting risk reviews of contracts and escalating internally as required, supporting the drafting of new clauses and terms
• Being the first port of call for a broad range of contract manager/paralegal issues from all business functions of a high-growth fintech scale-up
• Managing the inflow of legal matters by answering basic queries from across the business and involving other members of the legal team as appropriate
• Reviewing and negotiating NDAs and other ancillary legal documents  
• Assisting with building out and maintaining self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team and for the wider business
• Spotting opportunities that allow us to deliver contract management/paralegal/legal executive services in a more efficient and scalable way, and building new processes
• Helping members of the team with ad-hoc projects such as legal research, product launches, corporate projects and IP matters
• Taking charge of document management

What excites us:

• You have experience working as Paralegal/ Contract manager in a leading commercial law firm or in-house 
• You have a good understanding of the legal principles as well as the local law, experience in drafting agreements, corporate documents would be considered as an advantage
• You are used to working independently and proactively on a variety of projects simultaneously, and can effectively prioritise, you are not afraid to think out of the box and adopt decisions when needed
• You are easy to work with, and want to work in a fun, fast-growing but demanding young company
• Your communication skills are first class 
• You want to make it easier for the legal team to provide advice with your support
• You are tech-savvy and have experience with legal tech tools and contract management systems

Bonus points if:

• You have experience in a tech start-up or regulated environment
• You have demonstrated experience of suggesting and implementing process improvements

The salary range (gross): €2500 - €2700

(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 - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
• Equity -all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution 
• 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 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

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 ‘GeeCee’s’ 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 June 2023;

42% identify as women

28% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other

9% identify as LGBTQIA+

9% identify as neurodiverse

2% identify as disabled

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 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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