Strategic Partner Management Associate

About the Opportunity

At N26, we are on a mission to build the bank the world loves to use. Operating within our Banking Foundations Domain, the Strategic Partner Management team drives the core infrastructure, fintech capabilities, and third-party ecosystems that empower hundreds of thousands of European customers daily.

We are looking for an analytical, proactive, and execution-oriented Strategic Partner Management Associate to join our team.

This high-impact, hybrid position connects high-level strategy with day-to-day operational execution. In this role, you will act as a key liaison connecting external partners with internal stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Security. This role balances senior external partner management—including executive business reviews, vendor governance, and supplier selection—with hands-on operational execution.

In this role, you will

Strategic Governance, Analytics & Executive Presence

Support Leadership on Executive Reviews (QBRs/HBRs): Prepare, facilitate, and follow up on high-stakes Quarterly and Half-Yearly Business Reviews with external strategic partners and internal domain leaders.

Advanced Analytics & Business Intelligence: Build, maintain, and present intuitive dashboards, performance metrics, and deep-dive analytical views to track vendor SLAs, quality metrics, and productivity trends to help leadership make informed decisions.

Cross-Functional Advisory: Partner with operations, product, tech and business teams to consult, specify, and deploy automated reporting and process solutions that scale with N26’s hyper-growth.

Financial Operations & Reconciliation

End-to-End Invoice Reconciliation: Design, implement, and run monthly processes to gather multi-source invoice inputs, perform accounting reconciliations, and validate complex partner billing against contracted rates.

Financial KPI Management & Dispute Resolution: Track invoice accuracy metrics, establish financial anomaly