Essential Responsibilities:
- Lead functional projects and programs to optimize operational processes.
- Identify issues and recommend best practices for process improvements.
- Partner with various departments to understand business trends.
- Drive business or process improvements within the function.
- Provide oversight and support for planning and management of financial, budget, and headcount targets.
- Act as a point of contact or liaison between business leadership, staff, and other key partners.
- Promote transparent reporting and foster a culture of data-driven decision-making by defining key metrics and evaluating progress.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
What You’ll Do
- Executive Business Reviews : Lead preparation of Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Business Reviews (WBR/MBR), distilling complex data into insights and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Client Engagements : Support SMB and Financial Services leadership in client pitches and external meetings by crafting data-driven presentations that demonstrate PayPal’s value proposition.
- Strategic Planning : Partner with Finance, Product, and Marketing to drive the annual planning process, ensuring alignment across functions.
- Special Projects : Lead high-priority cross-functional initiatives and ad-hoc projects, often on tight timelines, that shape the future of PayPal’s SMB strategy.
- Events & Leadership Forums : Support planning and execution of internal leadership events, all hands, offsites, and key communications.
- Analytics & Insights : Translate complex datasets into meaningful insights, recommendations, and narratives to inform decision-making.
- Operating Cadence : Help design and run business rhythms that connect strategy, execution, and performance management.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience : 4+ years in management consulting, investment banking, business operations, strategy, or related roles, at least 1 of which was at an operating company; experience in fintech, payments, or lending strongly preferred.
- Analytical Acumen : Highly numerate with the ability to interrogate data, draw insights, and build business cases.
- Communication Excellence : Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex information into clear, compelling narratives for executives.
- Project Management : Strong organizational skills with experience managing cross-functional initiatives and delivering outcomes against tight timelines.
- Executive Presence : Confidence and polish in working with senior leaders; ability to influence without direct authority.
- Bias for Action : Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a willingness to roll up your sleeves.
- Collaboration : High EQ and ability to build trusted relationships across multiple teams and levels.
Our Benefits:
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