Senior Card Associations Analyst

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

The Senior Analyst will be responsible for detailed understanding of both interchange and the specific cardbrand fees charged by Card Brand Associations both domestic and international. They will spend their first 30-60 days gathering data and contacts across the company. This position will be key in evaluating how fee amounts are estimated today, where gaps in estimation exist, how they can be improved (updated rates, system changes, communications, etc.).

Analyses will be performed monthly with results being shared with several teams and organizations around the company. Recommendations and special projects will be coordinated and results evaluated by the analyst. They will be the main point of contact for Card Brand Associations interchange and cardbrand expense trends, billing strategy, upcoming changes, and system implementations world-wide.

Responsibilities

• Developing a new role and finance function that does not exist today

• Leverage their own association specific-knowledge and the knowledge of our other internal resources to perform detailed analyses world-wide

• Foster and maintain relationships with Compliance, Accounting, Systems and Operations teams

• Deliver driver-based forecast trends to finance that can easily layer onto existing forecasting and budgeting

• Manage monthly and quarterly reporting to cardbrands like FANF, BIN volumes, etc.

• Identify and close gaps between system estimates and actual expenses, report on the gap and it's closure

• Assist in special ad-hoc analyses

• Assist with executive level presentations

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in merchant acquiring

• Exposure to Corporate Accounting

• Ability to communicate detailed cardbrand-specific information to a less-informed audience in a meaningful and actionable way

• Must be able to present information to various levels of the company providing appropriate level of detail and presentation dependent on audience

• Bachelor's degree with a major in Finance, Economics or related disciplines preferred

• Driver-based forecasting experience preferred.

• Expert knowledge in Excel with proficiency in PowerPoint, and Word required (Google Sheets is a plus).

• Experience in playing a role in analyzing a highly complex business.

• Strong interpersonal, presentation and technical skills.

• Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple transactions / tasks under tight deadlines and pressure.

• Ability to drive innovation and business improvement.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a wide range of people with varying degrees of financial exposure.

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