Business Partner jobs in United States

Global Finance & Business Management (F&BM) works to strategically manage financials, drive growth and efficiencies, maintain financial reporting and proactively manage risk. By providing information, analysis and recommendations to improve results and drive decisions, teams ensure the company can navigate all types of market conditions while protecting our fortress balance sheet.

Business Management optimizes business performance by helping to drive key initiatives. We act as trusted advisors and counterweight to Business/Group Heads, and are responsible for identifying, escalating, and mitigating business risks. The role of a business manager is dynamic and can vary from business to business, in line with the priorities of the different lines of business.

Job Description:

The Business Management team supports the LATAM Payments Liquidity & Account Solution (L&AS) business which plays a critical role in the infrastructure and capabilities that enable money movement globally. The team is engaged in both supporting BAU business objectives, as well as shaping the go-forward strategic vision of the business, working with a wide range of product, line of business and functional partners.

The team believes in a collaborative approach, and building and maintaining relationships will be a key to success in this role. We are looking for a candidate that can collaborate globally across a diverse set of stakeholders in a dynamic environment. This is a highly visible role across the organization and offers the ability to work closely with a wide variety of stakeholders. A learning mindset is essential.

Role & Responsibilities: In this role you will work with business leads and be responsible for explaining financial performance and drivers of revenue and expenses for their respective products and advise on how best to execute on strategic and tactical goals. You will rely on Excel to draw conclusions from data provided by Finance as well as PowerPoint to craft succinct narratives that connect numerical data with business-driven activity. You will need strong quantitative skills, as well as the ability to story-tell with data. Communicating clearly with numerical data is essential. The ideal candidate will be comfortable interacting and influencing across a diverse slate of stakeholders: diverse in both seniority and geographic location.

• Key point of contact for front office and support functions to help achieve business objectives. Drive data-driven analysis to help facilitate decision making
• Support business heads through pipeline management, strategy development, financial analysis and expense management process
• Provide a high level of responsiveness to executive ad-hoc requests related to project management, presentation development, and business analysis
• Organize complex information in a strategic and compelling way, demonstrating strong design acumen and expertise in Excel and PowerPoint techniques
• Maintain business Objectives and Key Results (OKR) metrics
• Create mock-ups quickly and iteratively for management presentations, reports, and dashboards
• Communicate effectively with key business partners to understand projects and drive next steps
• Project manage and deliver key work streams and tasks
• Support audit, regulatory and compliance deliverables
• Coordinate team activities and prepare materials for town halls, employee recognition, and strategy working sessions
• Participate in collaborative initiatives with team members and global managers, looking for ways to continually simplify, improve, and add value to existing business processes
• Establish targets and metrics with the L&AS businesses to assess progress for key initiatives
• Work with business leads to ensure priorities and progress is effectively and regularly communicated to their stakeholders
• Manage other general issues related to real estate, staffing, corporate requests

Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and experience in a strategic or similar role
• Minimum 5 years of experience within Financial Services, preferably with experience in Payments
• Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint – preferably advanced level
• Strong organizational and time management skills; flexibility, ability to prioritize requests and multi-task
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment that requires multi-tasking
• Understanding of liquidity products – preferred
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and effective under pressure
• Strong analytical and numeric skills, excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship building skills; team player
• Ability to work well individually and partner effectively
• Pro-active and problem-solving mind-set with ability to identify, clearly present and implement solutions
• Comfortable presenting to senior MD audiences, strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to work cross-functionally with multiple competing priorities and deliverables
• Self-motivated, tenacious and able to work with high degree of independence
• Addresses issues in a problem-solving way
• Able to work in a collaborative way with our business stakeholders and support areas
• Proficient in distilling data and information into clear, conclusive presentations
• Fluent in English and Portuguese or Spanish