Senior Principal, Chief of Staff (Payments)

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:

Responsible for leading a wide range of day-to-day activities, strategic planning and projects or initiatives in support of one or more departments and senior leaders within a globally-focused organization. Including but not limited to any of the following: managing financial reporting, creating strategic planning documents, organizing team meetings and events, leading strategic projects, driving coordination and alignment of key business goals and priorities, managing engagement-focused initiatives, etc. Plays a key part of a leadership team to define, develop and execute the strategies and tactics necessary to achieve organizational goals. Delivers strategy work and/or executing on key pieces of the organization's objectives.

Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities 

·       Drive organization administration including financial forecast accuracy and adequacy, weekly executive communication, monthly business reviews and ad-hoc activities as required

·       Lead initial planning and ongoing communication activities in support of key business priorities to align and focus individual team efforts

·       Manage critical business initiatives, key special projects, and cross-functional efforts, serving as department liaison with key stakeholder both inside and outside the company

·       Champion multi-cultural development efforts across the organization to drive engagement, goal alignment, and effective working relationships

·       Create content and presentation development for a wide variety of audiences including executive leadership, town halls and business partners

Minimum Qualifications 

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: 

·       Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business Administration and Management, Information Technology, or related field 

·       8+ years of experience in Financial analysis, business administration, project management or related experience

·       In lieu of a degree, 10+ years of experience in Financial analysis, business administration, project management or related experience

Preferred Qualifications 

If we had our say, we’d also look for: 

·       Master’s Degree in Engineering, Business Administration and Management, Information Technology, or related field 

·       10+ years of experience in Financial analysis, business administration, project management or related experience

·       Prior experience in a chief of staff/Business Strategy role

·       Executive level Problem solving/critical thinking skills

·       Comfortable communicating at all levels in the organization

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