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Business Strategy Analyst (Payments)
- Discover Financial Services
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Riverwoods, IL
FULL_TIME
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Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description:
This position is part of the Discover Global Products Strategy team that focuses on strategic projects, stakeholder alignment with leaders, strategic communication planning, and continuous improvement deployments.
Acts as an internal business strategy consultant identifying patterns or themes and driving business actions based on fact-based recommendations. Collaboratively identifies hypotheses and key business questions, and delivers strategic analysis and insights required for strategy creation and execution.
Supports various stages of strategy development, including but not limited to evaluating and performing analysis for various strategy, business optimization, and business growth initiatives. Conducts components of analysis, including research on the market landscape, financial analysis, and due diligence. Collaborates with internal stakeholders to support aspects of strategy development, business optimization, and business growth initiatives. Fosters a culture of effective risk management, accountability, and demonstration of risk awareness across the organization. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Responsibilities
Leverages industry insights, competitive analysis, and voice of customer to strengthen product roadmaps for the Global Products organization and help drive capabilities investment strategy decisions.
Assesses the performance of and shapes the structure and direction of new and existing product lines. Identify sources, monitor, analyze, and interpret key product performance metrics including financials, network volumes, other key statistics, and internal/external customer feedback trends, then develop and communicate findings, suggests and recommends performance improvements to support data driven business decisions.
Analyzes data to provide recommendations on the target state of the Payments business unit looking ahead 3 or more years. This includes analysis of strategic capability gaps, threats, opportunities, and competitors.
Research and investigate industry trends and opportunities in support of Discover’s strategy by utilizing methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
Works on problems and projects of diverse scope related to developing business strategies and objectives.
Conducts analysis on business opportunities and business projects.
Collaborates with cross-functional teams to support processes related to strategy development and required due diligence.
Supports development of presentation materials regarding opportunities, analysis, and or transactions and recommendations to leadership.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management, or related field
4 years of experience in M&A, investment banking, corporate development, transaction advisory, consulting, or related
In lieu of a degree, 6 years of experience in M&A, investment banking, corporate development, transaction advisory, consulting, or related
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
1 year of experience in Payments, financial services, or related
Management / Business Consulting Experience
Competitive Insights and Analysis Experience
Strong thought leadership skills
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Application Deadline: The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-10-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation: The base pay for this position generally ranges between $75,500.00 to $127,900.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Time Off
401(k) Plan
Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
Recognition Program
Education Assistance
Commuter Benefits
Family Support Programs
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com .
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)
Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email HireAccommodation@discover.com . Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation. - 14 Days Ago
Business Intelligence Strategy Senior Analyst
- Sidley Austin LLP
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Chicago, IL
OTHER
- Summary The Business Intelligence Strategy Senior Analyst (BI Strategy Sr. Analyst) works extensively with the Firm’s IT and Accounting organizations to deliver business solutions and facilitate the f...
- 1 Month Ago
Business Analyst
- Central Business Solutions, Inc
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Chicago, IL
FULL_TIME
- Position Role/Tile: Business Analyst Location: Chicago (Onsite) Pharma Commercial BA JD is below – Pharma Commercial and Analytics professional with 15 years' experience in US pharma & biotech industr...
- 12 Days Ago
ERP Business Analyst
- Central Business Solutions, Inc
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Chicago, IL
FULL_TIME
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- 21 Days Ago
Clinical Business Analyst
- Central Business Solutions, Inc
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Deerfield, IL
FULL_TIME
- Position Role/Tile: Clinical Business Analyst Location: Deerfield (Remote), IL. Skills: Analyze business processes. Identify, evaluate, develop and or redesign procedures to meet regulation requiremen...
- 11 Days Ago
Strategy Analyst
- Nova Clean Energy
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Chicago, IL
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- Usaa
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Sr. Business Strategy Analyst - Global Derivatives
- The Chicago Board Options Exchange
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New York, NY
- Job Description Position Summary - Primary Purpose of the Role This position supports the Global Derivatives team by dri...
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- Usaa
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- Apex Systems
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