Business Performance Specialist

What’s it all about?
· This is a new role created to full time support investment fund management, by:
Creating and implementing processes and tracking for investment funds, preparing analytics, calculating ROI on collected funds and supporting key initiatives to deliver against plan.
Working with the local management team and support the business owners to ensure initiatives are delivered and the funds are spent in accordance with policies and benefit the ecosystem in each of the Nordic & Baltic markets.
Ensuring that all investment fund projects and resources entirely benefit the entire ecosystem, including preparing reviews of that.
The role will require an engaging and proactive individual with the ability to build relationships with leaders (incl. Country Managers, Function Heads, Regional Leads of sales, Regional Strategy & Planning Lead, and Finance) to help execute the Nordic & Baltic strategic plan.
Business Transformation – working on projects and make change happen across the markets, while creating a more agile, innovative and commercial culture.
To ensure implementation the Senior Manager Business Performance N&B also takes responsibility for Performance management, tracking and reporting and ensure operational excellence across all Sales processes.

What we expect of you, day to day
· Provide strategic insight - grounded in data and facts, thought leadership and structure to strategic projects.
· Set/lead development and execution of cohesive, integrated regional business strategy to drive sustained revenue growth, client retention and enhance Visa industry leadership.
· Develop frameworks that support the prioritization and tracking of strategic initiatives.
· Evaluate investment opportunities for their strategic and financial value. Address the most pressing challenges and answer key business questions through strategy and solution development, being well versed in technology decisions for Visa and its clients.
· N&B Strategy operationalization and implementation – transform strategy into actionable measures/projects and manage implementation
· Facilitate monthly/quarterly business reviews. Drive consistency, forecast accuracy and predictability against targets through improved sales process, system enhancements, creating total transparency for executive management
· Ensure alignment of operating plans against Cont. European goals and roadmaps for success including preparing and presenting materials to relevant stakeholders.
· Collaborate with leaders and initiative owners across the cross functional leadership teams. Balance facilitation, influence, and content contributions to help business leaders design, advance and execute their respective strategies.
· Build an internal network with central strategy teams.
What we're after
· Demonstrable senior executive engagement and influencing skills
· Flexibility and ability to adjust on the fly to new demands
· Highly analytical, with ability to synthesise deep quantitative and qualitative analysis for executive audiences
· Experience managing complex strategic initiatives within cross-functional teams
· Commercially focused and a pragmatic self-starter, have the ability to identify opportunities and propose solutions
· A sense of urgency, assertiveness, and directness. Ability to think longer-term coupled with fast execution of short-term priorities
· Proven capacity to be a respected and valued partner at multiple levels within the organization
· Excellent presentation skills – both in preparing compelling ppt decks and tell a convincing story
· Prior experience in Corporate Strategy / Strategy Consulting preferred
· Payments and Fintech experience is a plus
· Solid knowledge of the payments business and financial services