Job Description

This is an exciting Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst/Manager role covering PayPal Global Markets business. The core aspects of the role include reporting financial & non-financial metrics, business partnering, analytics which stretch across all global markets that PayPal operates in. The individual will establish critical link of digging deep into the data including non-financial metrics to determine the causes of trends, identifying anomalies, spotting opportunities etc. and in the process help business determine the focus areas for growth and expansion. The role will go further into helping business make better decisions, pre-empt future trends and take corrective actions to ensure PayPal remains on track to meet its short-term and long-term goals.

Job responsibilities

• Efficient measurement and reporting of the financial and non-financial metrics of the Cross Border business
• Analysis of business performance, including generating insights into customer behavior, initiative performance, pricing opportunities
• Convert business questions into analytical problems and analyze data through hypothesis generation.
• Communicate complex concepts and results of the analyses with clear/effective communication and visualization to senior leadership
• Use analytics to improve our ability to detect, understand and address emerging trends that could pose a risk to business performance metrics
• Updating/ creating financial models for business cases
• Work with large volumes of data; extracting and manipulating large datasets using standard tools such as SQL/BigQuery/SAS

Qualifications, skills & experience

• 4 to 8 years of experience either in Financial Planning or Business Analytics preferably in technology or payments industry
• Bachelors in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Accounting or related field. Additional business qualifications like MBA/CFA/CPA preferred
• Experience in Essbase and SQL in addition to strong Excel, PowerPoint and SQL skills
• Demonstrated executive level engagement with business partners
• Desire to work with ambiguity and passion for problem solving
• Attention to detail and demonstrated analytical skills