Funding Circle

At Funding Circle, we want our company to be as diverse as the small businesses and investors we serve! We recognise the power and value in building a diverse team, where people's skills and personalities complement each other and reflect the customers we are here to help. 

Different perspectives lead to better outcomes and we see the positive impact of this in our teams every day. This is what drives innovation and allows us to deliver a best in class customer and employee experience.

Our diversity initiatives are some of the ways Funding Circle is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

• Employee Community Hub/Circles/Groups  - From Circle of Pride to Let’s Talk About Race to Women@FC, we have groups that focus on making sure everyone feels represented and their voice is heard.  
• Cultural surveys - We measure how each Circler is feeling regards not only their work, but their environment and how included they feel.
• Getting together as a company through either Global or Local Gatherings - Great way to know what’s going on in the company, do awards, give recognition, etc. - even in virtual settings!
• External Speakers - We bring in outside experts to educate and inform us on social, economic, environmental, and cultural initiatives and organisations. 
• Community Partnerships - We not only focus on making an impact at Funding Circle, but also the local community. FC Impact regularly partners with various local charities and communities to help make a difference.  
• Training & education - We have training programmes available to support our Circlers such as: Unconscious Bias, Hiring the FC way and How to build a Diverse team.  

Funding Circle UK Gender Pay Gap reporting

In 2017, the UK Government introduced a policy to support the progression of more women into senior roles in business and society. All organisations with more than 250 employees are required to report their 'Gender Pay Gap', which shows the percentage difference in mean and median hourly salary between all men and all women in an organisation, expressed as a percentage of men's earnings.

It is important to note that the Gender Pay Gap relates to what women and men are paid for the same or similar jobs or work of equal value. Women and men are paid equally at Funding Circle for performing the same roles.

Funding Circle UK's mean Gender Pay Gap of +18.5% is a result of a lower proportion of women in senior and mid-level roles, and in higher paid teams.

Our biggest focus - and the prevailing challenge for our industry - is to improve and strengthen gender diversity in our technology and capital market teams. We are also working hard to increase female representation at senior management levels through our recruitment and retention initiatives. It will require sustained effort over multiple years in order to bring about the required change. We are excited for this challenge, and believe Funding Circle will play a lead role in driving a sustainable, long-term shift in gender diversity for the FinTech industry.

More on how we promote Diversity and Inclusion and our Gender Pay Gap reporting can be seen here.

Find out US D&I report on this page

Our mission is to build the place where small businesses get the funding they need to win. 

We do this by uniting cutting-edge data and technology to deliver an unbeatable customer experience. With a decade of expertise under our belt, we've built a game-changer of a platform that's reshaping the landscape of SME lending. Say goodbye to lengthy applications and hello to lightning-fast decisions! In just minutes, SMEs across the UK can get an instant decision, giving them access to affordable funding in a flash. 

99% of businesses are small businesses! And in most cases aren’t given the finance they need to grow. We’re here to change that because the world needs small business.

Want to learn more? 

• We have a huge impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform, the communities they serve and the overall economy (last year £6.9bn of GDP generated). You can read our full Impact Report here: https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/impact 
• To see what our customers think, visit our Trustpilot page: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/fundingcircle.com 
• And we’re still evolving! With over a decade leading the industry with our award winning core loans offering we are now well on our way to solving more SME finance challenges transforming into a multi-product lending platform.

We have developed a strong and engaging culture in each of our offices, as well as a set of six core values that represent who we are and how our team behaves:

• Think Smart
• Make it Happen
• Be Open
• Stand Together
• Live the Adventure
• Obsess Over The Customer

At Funding Circle, our people are the core of our success, and we believe in a culture that’s as open and collaborative as it is passionate and ambitious. We believe that creating the right culture is crucial for both attracting and keeping talent. All permanent Circlers hold options and/or shares in the equity of the business, ensuring they are aligned with Funding Circle’s mission, vision and objectives. 

We invest in our people

We want everyone to feel ownership at Funding Circle, and that they can keep building their career with us.

• Global career development opportunities
• Learn new skills in FC Academy
• Regular company socials for all employees
• Annual L&D budget
• Internal mobility programme

We keep things social

There’s more to life than work, and we want to have fun and socialize together so everyone enjoys coming to work.

• Regular company wide social events
• Charity events and competitions
• Sports teams and events for all interests
• Circler Group communities 

Find out more about our people here.

The “Tech and Data” teams are the drivers behind our platform – brilliant people working together to create, code, and build market leading products.  

Our engineering culture is built on collaboration. We like to make the most out of pair programming sessions and extreme programming practices to  produce higher quality software, and a  high quality environment for our development teams.

An agnostic stack allows us to choose the best technologies for each problem we face, some of our most commonly used include: Ruby, Clojure, React, Python, Kafka, AWS and Kubernetes.

Engineers at Funding Circle are encouraged to deliver innovation through software to automate processes that enable us to operate at scale.

We encourage continuous learning through regular internal training and our annual L&D budgets which you can spend on whatever training you see fit. 

Hear it from our tech team here