Paralegal

GoCardless Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing

Work away scheme

Adaptive Working

Parental leave

Learning Budget

Time off

Job summary

GoCardless Ltd is seeking a proactive Paralegal to join a fast-growing legal team within a global fintech scale-up. You will handle a broad range of tasks across the business, triage inquiries, and help set up signature-ready documents.

The role offers exposure to multiple geos, opportunity to build playbooks, and involvement in IP and product-related work, with a focus on efficiency and accuracy.

Qualifications

• Paralegal with experience in a leading commercial law firm or in-house.
• Good understanding of legal principles and local law; drafting agreements a plus.
• Able to work independently on multiple projects with proactive prioritisation.
• Strong communication and tech-savvy; efficiency in processes.

Responsibilities

• Handle a broad range of paralegal tasks across business functions.
• Answer basic queries and triage legal matters.
• Set up documents for signatures and manage administrative tasks.
• Develop self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team.
• Support ad-hoc projects like legal research, product launches, IP matters.

Skills

Paralegal experience

Commercial law understanding

Independent / self-motivated

Strong communication

Drafting agreements

Tech-savvy / process efficiency

Job description

GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments. 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. For more information, please visit www.gocardless.com and follow us on LinkedIn @GoCardless. Mollie is the leading payments and financial services partner for business, rooted in Europe, with global reach.

We’re approaching ‘Legal Risk’ in Financial Services in a new way.

• We are ready to serve everyone, if we wanted to - we ensure Legal Risk does not constrain the business but empowers it to achieve its goals;
• We create the best possible customer experience - we want our customers (both internal and external) to look forward to going through our processes; and
• We aim to automate everything we do - we don’t like inefficiencies nor do we believe that real risk mitigation is achieved by throwing people at the problem.

The Legal Team is at the forefront of GoCardless’ expansion. We must ensure that GoCardless adopts, implements and maintains forward-thinking and appropriate processes and controls, often coming across new challenges or issues that require innovative solutions.

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 and get to learn a lot of new skills along the way.
• Being the first port of call for a broad range of paralegal tasks 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
• Administrative tasks that require precision and quick thinking – triaging tickets, helping with setting up documents for signatures and other tasks that leave a big impact
• Assisting with building out and maintaining self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team and for the wider business
• Helping members of the team with ad-hoc projects such as legal research, product launches, corporate projects and IP matters
• An opportunity to work in a global team spanning different countries

Desired skills

• You have experience working as a Paralegal 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 are an effective communicator and want to work in a fun, fast-growing but demanding young company
• Learning new things and precision is your second nature, you are tech-savvy and have a sense of how efficiency in processes is driven

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 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

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%

LGBTQIA+ — 9%

Disabled — 1%

Average age — 33

Female — 45%

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.