Strategy & Operations Manager - Payments

About the opportunity

We are looking for a business lead for our Payments segment. You will play a pivotal role in co-driving the segment strategy along with your product counterpart and ensuring the successful delivery of high impact initiatives with cross functional teams.

Do you have hands-on leadership experience leading EU payment projects?

Do you love solving complex problems using SQL for data analysis, creating business cases, as well as P&L, and KPI monitoring?

Do you enjoy complex project management and aligning with multiple stakeholders on complex payment products?

In this role, you will

Co-drive the creation and refinement of the segment strategies, enabling decision and trade-off decision making.

Create business cases to assess both initiatives and experiments impact.

Conduct exploratory analyses to optimize P&L.

Lead KPI reviews with cross-functional teams to monitor progress against goals.

Become a central stakeholder for other departments, including Product & Tech, Data, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Operations, and Marketing.

Partner with other internal stakeholders and external vendors to implement, deploy & maintain payments product strategies and offerings.

Track, analyse, and report on performance metrics to identify opportunities for product optimization.

Lead projects from initial execution until go-live and then owning and optimising performance.

What you need to be successful

Background

Minimum of 5 years in fintech, banking, consulting, or startup environments, ideally have led a team already

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Management, Mathematics, or related field from a top-tier institution.

Proven experience in making data-driven recommendations and driving strategic outcomes through cross-functional collaboration.

Good understanding of the global, EU and local payments landscape in markets N26 operates in.

Strong organizational skills with the ability to lead projects and reprioriti