Description

As a member of the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) leadership team, the Enterprise Payment CFO will be a key partner to the Chief Enterprise Payments Officer in setting the strategy and related financial performance metrics. As the liaison between the Finance organization, the Enterprise Payments organization and Business Segments, this role will identify, analyze, and forecast performance and profitability drivers. collaborate with business leaders to create actions plans, and generate the insights needed to drive top quartile performance.

This team leader will own strategic finance direction for the business to ensure it achieves the strategy and dynamically adjusts course when needed. Responsible for providing clear decision support to the Payments organization while coordinating across multiple revenue and support segments, which includes owning the long-range financial plan, monthly forecast, performance management, sales enablement, ORKs, and reporting & presentation of findings and specific recommendations to senior management.  They are also responsible for providing guidance and analytical support for capital investments, including external partnerships and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). 

This role will report to the Financial Planning & Analysis Sr. Director.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain budgeting and forecasting process in alignment with business strategy across multiple businesses, including Treasury Management, Merchant Services, Consumer & Commercial Credit Card, (segment to add/refine).
• Active member of the Enterprise Payments leadership team to create strategies and tactics to overall improve business performance.
• Attract, develop, and manage a high performing finance team
• Work with fintech partners & vendors to drive costs reductions and efficiency programs.
• Forecast fee and lending product balance trends based on sales pipelines, interest rates, product initiatives, customer demand, seasonality, and other relevant factors.
• Forecast and budget personnel, product, vendor, and marketing related expenses.
• Manage investment process for strategic Initiative development, forecasting, and tracking.
• Modeling payment related inorganic and partnership growth opportunities.
• Provide comprehensive analysis of balance sheet, net interest margin, non- interest income, and expenses.
• Product profitability and pricing analysis.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field: Business/Finance/Economics/Math/Engineering required.
• Minimum of 10 years finance experience in financial services. Payments and card experience strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years management experience.
• Strong Excel, Essbase, and financial modeling experience required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and/or advanced professional certification/education in a related field (e.g. CFA, CPA, MA, MBA) or equivalent
• Knowledge of the payments industry with specific experience in Treasury management products – Receivables, Payables, Disbursements, and Card, Sales processes within the payments industry
• Knowledge of Emerging Payments, Payments platforms/ Embedded Payments, Payment Processors/ Network and Merchant Acquiring Economics
• Self-starter, able to multi-task effectively and be able to handle stress with composure and professionalism.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interface with all levels of management.
• Well-developed analytical and critical thinking skills with an understanding of the concept of materiality (i.e., knows when information is relevant).
• Strong personnel management, development, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to proactively manage issues, assignments, and move work forward with limited direction.
• Capable of managing changing priorities with ease and poise.

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

Workplace Type:

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