Payment Strategy Analyst

at  Payrails

THE COMPANY

Payrails is an innovative technology company with a team that has many years of experience in the payment industry and a real-life understanding of the merchants’ needs. We have seen the complexity firsthand and we have learnt from all the challenges we’ve faced. Now we want to help leading technology companies around the world to accept payments and build financial services with minimal upfront investments.
Our vision at Payrails is to reimagine payments. We do this by removing heavy reliance on Engineering efforts using composable building blocks that put the control firmly in the hands of our customers. We exist to help our customers become more productive and flexible, impacting directly on their ability to grow.
We are joined in our mission by top tier investors Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, EQT and General Catalyst, alongside a great cast of knowledgeable angel investors to enable us to solve the growing complexity of payments.
At Payrails we are committed to building a team full of the most talented people. Excellence is part of our values and we understand that in order to achieve this, we need to build an environment where skilled people can work openly, collaboratively and with the utmost trust in one another. We believe people thrive the most when they are fully aware of what the business is trying to achieve, why it is important to the market and what challenges lie in the way to reaching our goals. In such an environment we believe people can truly excel, grow and enjoy working together. We try hard to be a company where everyone is inspired and feels a sense of responsibility to do the right thing to help us bring our vision to life. Succeeding with us is about finding solutions to the most pressing problems and executing effectively.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• You’ll be defining and suggesting ways of optimizing payment KPIs
• You will be providing data insights into how our merchant base can improve their performance
• You will be building and maintaining dashboards of the GTM team performance KPIs
• You will be improving the real-time performance monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting systems
• You will collaborate cross-functionally with Go-To-Market, Product, and Data Engineering teams to encapsulate new data streams and optimize the data process

YOU’LL BE GREAT FOR THIS ROLE IF

• You have great knowledge of SQL
• You can balance technical acumen with business understanding and excel in collaborating with stakeholders to drive insightful, robust analyses.
• You can efficiently manage projects and successfully collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups.
• You have strong analytical abilities and excellent verbal and written communication in English, with a curious, creative and self-starter mindset. You couple your passion for data with pragmatism to drive actions and impact.
• Experience with Tableau, Looker and other with data visualization tools is a plus
• You have a proven track record of managing complex initiatives with a strong emphasis on data, providing actionable insights, and tracking the success of those initiatives
• You are able to communicate complex problems in a simple and relevant manner at all levels
• You are passionate about new technologies and innovations within Fintech
• Experience in payments is highly desirable