Finance Manager - Payments and Fintech

Payment Analyst

In this role, the candidate would be responsible for assisting all payment team members with financial and analytic support related to both the evaluation of new initiatives as well as creation of performance monitoring reports for existing products/processes. He/she would also be responsible for ad hoc analysis to help identify issues and opportunities as requested by leadership. The candidate would be expected to be familiar with the operational and strategic priorities of the group and be knowledgeable about the location and extraction of the available data in support of those objectives. Both data mining and data manipulation will be important elements of the job.

The ideal candidate will be adept at using modern data mining and manipulation tools/services as well as capable of learning internal legacy systems. He/she should be capable of summarizing data in a format that will be effective in communicating to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Work with vendors and internal stakeholders to build system monitoring and analytic capabilities to proactively identify both issues and opportunities within the assigned scope of responsibilities
• Work with IT to resolve any identified payment related issues
• Develop concise, yet comprehensive presentations or other written updates that appropriately communicate current state and future state of payments
• Manage project plans associated with new initiatives within assigned scope of responsibilities
• Coordinate and lead cross-functional collaboration meetings for assigned initiatives
• Act as liaison between key stakeholders to ensure payment priorities are appropriately established and supported
• Assist in negotiating agreements with payment vendors as necessary
• Work with legal and IT security teams to ensure payments ecosystem is both secure and compliant with all rules and regulations
• Work with business units across the globe to understand uniqueness of payments environment in each geography and drive alignment related to payment efforts and strategy for each

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 7+ years relevant finance or accounting experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience in strategy and planning within payment operations
• Prior experience with data analysis (mining, manipulation, and visualization)
• Prior exposure to large and complex enterprise IT environments
• Knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures as relates to general finance principles and general ledger accounting
• Excellent oral/written communication skills
• Project management establishing and maintaining workstream timelines, driving collaborative meetings to ensure alignment/awareness, etc.
• Financial skills ability to build simple analyses/business cases or work with finance to build more complex analyses and business cases
• Data skills ability to mine and interpret data and/or work with IT professionals to build more sophisticated data capabilities
• Presentation skills / Professional presence ability to communicate with executive level audience

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• PMP or other project certification

Leadership

• Embodies the following values: serve, perform, influence, respect, innovate, team.
• Effectively communicates by motivating and inspiring others through clear and proactive communication.
• Delivers results and drives customer success by committing and focusing on outcomes to deliver results and making the customer the center of decisions.
• Makes balanced decisions and thinks strategically by being a forward thinker.

Physical Demands / Working Environment

• Principal duties of this job are performed indoors primarily in an office environment, with occasional field duties.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Able to work in an office environment with moderate noise levels
• Must be able to stand and walk or travel short distances between work sites
• Able to communicate effectively with colleagues and clients, both verbally and in writing and to able to hear and respond verbal communication
• Must be able to use hands and fingers to operate office equipment like computers, calculators, and copiers