Business Operations Manager

2023-09-19 | po-021668

Company description

Multinational Leading Digital Payments company. The firm manages a two-sided proprietary global technology platform that links customers, which consist of both merchants and consumers, to facilitate the processing of payment transactions.

Responsibilities

We are seeking an energetic and analytical professional to join the Growth Markets Business Operations team, with focus on our Japan market. The team supports the regional SVP and respective market VPs to accelerate the growth of our merchant and consumer portfolio.
Leverage internal and external data to provide actionable commercial insights that can deliver revenue growth
Identify new business opportunities and initiatives that will support the growth of our merchants and markets
Develop, plan and lead cross-functional strategic growth initiatives under closely collaboration with multiple business functions to deliver and implement on the identified initiatives
Drive accountability with sales teams to achieve their sales targets
Collaborate with Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Data Science & Analytics and other regional and global business teams on strategic initiatives, planning and budgeting projects
Support with internal management cadences, senior leadership presentations, sales plans, and other programs
Work closely with Sales, Revenue Ops, Finance and other teams to provide an overview of risks and opportunities in our sales pipeline

Requirements

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree from a top-tier university in business, finance, or sciences
5+ years work experience in business operations roles and/or corporate strategy roles in multi-national financial service companies; ideally some past exposure/experience to a sales organization
Business Proficiency in English and Japanese languages
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong exposure to projects/teams across multiple jurisdictions and diverse cultures
Ability to craft outstanding storylines using MS PowerPoint, think-cell and similar tools to convey ideas/plans to a broad set of different stakeholders
Solid financial modelling capabilities using MS Excel to build business cases and analyze complex data that help driving growth initiatives
Personality that is comfortable to operate in a fast-paced ambiguous environment with changing priorities
Ability to successfully navigate in a matrix organization where strong cross-functional collaboration is required
Proactive and resourceful nature with high level of intellectual curiosity
Understanding of payments and relevant ecosystems advantageous but not a key requirement