Sr Mgr Cost of Payments Strategy

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The Team:

At eBay you will be part of a purpose driven community dedicated to creating an ambitious and versatile work environment. In eBay Payments you are an integral member of a growing organization that inspires passion courage and innovation creating the future of global commerce and making an important positive impact on millions of eBay sellers and shoppers around the world. If you are looking for a special place to take your Payments career to the next level we want to talk with you!

The role:

eBay is looking for a seasoned payments strategy professional that will lead cost of payments optimization and insights for the payments business. You will be part of the Cost of Payments and Strategy team that drives critical initiatives and business insights for the payments organization. You will bring both process and content leadership to strategic projects and act as the primary point person for product and finance teams for payments strategy. The ideal candidate has a track record of making pragmatic concrete recommendations with real world implementation experience. It is critical for the role that the candidate has strong analytics critical thinking and is excellent in developing creative/ outofthebox and wellthoughtout solutions for challenging business problems.

Responsibilities

• Payments Strategy: Develop payments strategies to optimize and reduce cost of payments for financial services business at eBay.

• Scope: Cost of payments strategies covering credit and debit cards payment wallets bank payments altpays payments processing crossborder trade and seller payments.

• Planning: In close partnership with product partnerships finance and risk partners create a three to five year plan on cost of payment optimization initiatives that support the longterm strategy; including product and service offerings experiences and capabilities; partner with key partners to ensure that is in alignment with the strategy. Work with PMO teams to ensure project alignment resourcing and scheduling of the critical initiatives.

• Critical initiatives: Create base cases for cost reduction initiatives and inform the thinking via discussions with crossfunctional partners tracking industry trends with a view to create bestinclass cost optimization framework for eBay.

• Support: Provide assistance to partnerships and business development team in their contract negotiations and provide both strategic and analytic inputs to them as needed by closely working with the reporting and insights team. Collaborate with the partnerships team in helping monitor and track contract compliance withrespectto cost of payment implications (e.g. PINless debit dues and assessments etc.. Provide assistance to the finance team on budget submissions and quarterly forecasting cycles and to partnerships and business development team in their contract negotiations and provide both strategic and analytic inputs to them as needed by closely working with the business analytics team.

• Monitoring: In close collaboration with the reporting and dashboards team build out the vision for comprehensive tracking and monitoring mechanisms for cost of payments for payments business at eBay.

• Updates: Provide regular updates to the payments organization leaders around key trends and troubleshoot instances where there was a sudden change in

• Card network mandates: Be the primary point of contact to assess impact on cost of payments resulting from biannual card network mandate changes in April and October.

Qualification and Experience

• Proven leader with at 810 years of overall experience and at least 78 years of experience in the payment/financial services industry preferably 23 years at a top strategy consulting firm

• Bachelor degree required; MBA or equivalent preferred

• Has indepth knowledge costofpayments drivers and is wellversed with data elements that are critical in driving cost of payments

• Proven track record in driving datadriven payments strategies especially in costofpayments and proficient in leading of key initiatives.

• Proficient in knowledge of network interchange fee programs has thorough understanding of cost of payments including payment processor and acquirer reports.

• Comfortable managing with ambiguity and able to drive in a highly crossfunctional and fastpaced environment

• Strong ability to influence partners lead key meetings with large groups and drive decisionmaking.

• Must possess a high level of responsibility and accountability

• Selfstarter with the ability to work independently

The applicable base pay range for this position is dependent on work location. The base pay range inthe San Francisco Bay Area New York City Metro and Seattle Metro is expected in the range below:

The base pay range for all other U.S. work locations is expected in the range below:

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including location skills and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired employees will be in an atwill position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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