Sr. Consultant, Corporate Strategy

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

Develops, manages, and supports execution of enterprise strategy and cross-functional initiatives, working with senior leadership to define and execute our 1-3 year strategic plans to drive durable advantages for our network and solutions. Focuses on a broad range of topics developing Build/Buy/Partner and inorganic analyses, influencing product roadmaps, envisioning the future, and implementing our backlog of strategic bets that will shape not only our businesses, but also the entire financial services industry. This role will report directly to a Director of Corporate Strategy & Development and have high visibility in the organization with frequent interaction with the C-suite, senior executive team, as well as external stakeholders across our banking and startups partners.

Essential Functions

• Strategic Planning: Manage enterprise strategic planning process (5, 3, 1 year processes) to drive focus and prioritization of business plans that drive clarity among senior leaders and resource allocation
• Strategic initiatives and business case: Develop compelling recommendations for strategic initiatives that enhance our competitive advantages, enabling enterprise and business prioritization, budgeting, and monetization of new programs and initiatives
• Market & Industry Subject Matter Expertise: Identify and quantify market impacts to the future of EWS and its businesses by analyzing regulatory and secular trends, competitive intelligence, and business model dynamics
• Inorganic opportunities: Assess and implement inorganic opportunities to accelerate enterprise and business priorities.  When needed, drive end-to-end execution of M&A. Evaluate synergy opportunities and risks in potential transactions
• Project Management: Lead all aspects of the strategy initiative or deal transactions, including strategy formation, final recommendation, developing business cases, deal execution, and integration.
• Creative Problem Solving: Structure complex problems, develop hypotheses, conduct analyses and drive actionable recommendations through a data driven process
• Customer and Innovation Leadership: Partner with teams to identify and explore new technologies, products, and biz models to extend market leadership and customer relevance.
• Support the company's commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 or more years of relevant work experience in management consulting, corporate strategy investment banking, corporate development, private equity, venture capital.
• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong analytical skills, PowerPoint and Excel fluency.
• Effective communicator, able to convey complex ideas in a clear, concise manner both verbally and in writing, comfortable in business and technical discussions.
• Experience in building trusting relationships and influencing others. Collaborative team player who is also an independent thinker.
• Self-starter who thrives and can multitask in fast-paced and often ambiguous environments.
• Background and drug screen.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 or more years prior work experience at a top strategy consulting firm – McKinsey, BCG, Bain.
• Fluency in performing financial, valuation, and broad quantitative analyses in Excel and familiarity with accounting and key operational metrics
• Experience in payments, risk insights, digital identity, banking, or fintech space.
• Experience working in complex strategic projects with financial services companies, inclusive of corporate and business unit strategy, driving business and technical alignment, and communicating with both internal and external executives.

Physical Requirements

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