Corporate Solutions Business Analysis Manager - European Region

About Corporate Solutions: Corporate Solutions is a fast-growing newly built organization within Mastercard, focusing on pursuing the outsized B2B payments opportunity and capturing new payment flows among large corporations.

About Corporate Solutions Business Analysis: the department sits centrally within Corporate Solutions as a strategy and analytics hub that is primarily responsible for:
• Developing and executing global and regional level strategy built on top of a strong analytical foundation: customer research, market research, and deep analytics
• Developing and monitoring business cases in partnership with product, sales, operations, and other key stakeholders
• Intelligence creation - building and managing KPIs, dashboards, desktop research, product and sales benchmarking
• Enabling key ecosystem plays bringing together internal and external capabilities leveraging a build, buy, and partner approach
• Managing cross-functional alignment

About the role:
This role reports to the Head of Business Analysis for Corporate Solutions, with close partnership with the EUR regional leaders. The vision for the role is to help build market intelligence for the EUR region, help grow the market through actionable strategies and go-to-market engagements, and enable meaningful conversations with prospects and clients through data and insights.

Key Activities:
• Create EUR wide intelligence through research and analysis with a data-driven approach
• Provide research services for internal and external use
• Provide analytical support to senior management in the development and execution of strategic initiatives
• Craft strategic growth plans and drive execution in key priority markets within the region
• Keep pulse on the macro-environment alongside Sales and Strategy functions
• Assist sales in the creation of client pitch decks and client relationship reviews, and create compelling narratives to support client conversations and events
• Develop and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders to identify emerging needs and business challenges
• Assist in budgeting & forecasting for business growth, development and tracking of key KPIs

All about you:
If rolling up your sleeves in a fast-paced environment where you get to build data-driven business cases while also being market and client facing excites you, please apply! Relatable experience that would translate well:
• Extensive experience drawing key insights from data to build and manage business cases and inform strategy
• Experience structuring and managing financial deals (e.g. M&A, loans, payments)
• Cross-functional project management and ability to lead and influence partners
• Track record of thought leadership and sharing original content (ideally in the payments space)
• Ability to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders (both internal and external)
• Demonstrated success working with stakeholders across other business units, functions and markets in support of cross-functional projects/programs
• Sales experience - pitch decks, and client performance reviews

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.