Core responsibilities:
- End to end ownership of merchant level financials during budgeting, forecasting and reporting cycles.
- Partnering with the GSA commercial team to set yearly sales targets and to report sales performance monthly/weekly to Senior Leadership.
- Develop a deep understanding of PayPal’s business at the merchant level across different PayPal’s products & regions while working with key stakeholders to communicate latest forecast and trends analysis. Perform deep dives and leverage financial analytics to deliver insights on business
- Review and communicate performance against defined targets. Regularly perform variance and sensitivity analyses on (weekly/monthly) revenue & margin performance for GSA merchants.
- Partner with the commercial organization in identifying, sizing, and optimizing meaningful revenue opportunities from emerging trends (macro or micro) and ad-hoc analysis. Additionally, support with the sizing of ling term Strategic partnership initiatives with key clients.
- Work closely with Accounting and Operations teams to facilitate monthly close cycles on contra revenue and merchant incentives consistent with contract language.
- Represent the main conduit between Strategic deal pricing and FP&A by converting new deal terms into forecast inputs
- Support ad-hoc analyses & projects at BU Finance level (i.e. Fastlane, QL).
Education required:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required; MBA/Master’s degree or higher in a quantitative field preferred
- Advanced Proficiency with MS Office specifically with Excel and PowerPoint
- Demonstrated proficiency in large database manipulation through standard access tools, such as SQL and reporting tools (Essbase)
Experience and required skills / abilities:
- 5+ years progressive experience in financialplanning/analytics/strategicfinance roles
- Superior relationship building and organizational influence skills in interactions with senior leaders, peers and business partners across organizations and geographies
- Highly comfortable managing large files of data and able to derive insights from which as well as ability to communicate key details to stakeholders and leaders succinctly.
- Excellent business acumen, demonstrated by a balance of strong strategic and pragmatic, detail-oriented thinking
- Ability to thrive in a fast growing, fast moving, large company environment within the eCommerce or financial services sectors.
- Demonstrated experience in forecasting and budget processes in matrixed environments.
- Experience in building and challenging financial models.
- Communication skills: experience distilling complex financial analyses and preparing powerful presentations with a crisp and clear storyline.
- Detail-oriented, highly analytical individual who strives for excellence and wants to be part of a great team.
- Self-driven and capable of working independently in potentially ambiguous assignments.
- High energy and a true desire to understand the drivers of the business.
- Excellent English proficiency.
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The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .
The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is
$64000 to $156750
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