About the opportunity
We are looking for an Associate to join our Payments team. You will play a pivotal role in co‑driving the segment strategy along with your product counterpart and ensuring the successful delivery of high impact initiatives with cross functional teams.
- Do you have hands‑on leadership experience with EU payment projects?
- Do you love solving complex problems using SQL for data analysis, creating business cases, as well as P&L;, and KPI monitoring?
- Do you enjoy complex project management and aligning with multiple stakeholders on complex payment products?

In this role, you will:
- Become a central point of contact and connection between internal and external stakeholders for Payments.
- Collaborate in a cross functional team environment on a daily basis. Collaboration with key stakeholders such as Product & Tech, Data, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Operations, and Marketing.
- Drive and support strategic payments projects end‑to‑end.
- Manage and develop external relationships with our key vendors.
- Manage and optimize data related to Payments.



This includes constantly reviewing data to gain a deeper understanding of the products / projects under your supervision, ensure their performance is in line with SLA’s and constantly identify new opportunities.
- Actively shape the Payments OKRs and strategic roadmap development.
- Fully leverage and further develop critical business skills including quantitative and qualitative analysis, project management, communications, stakeholder management and leadership in a high‑functioning team environment.
- Conduct analyses to optimize P&L; and volumes related to Payments.

What you need to be successful:
Background:
- Minimum of 3 years in fintech, banking, consulting, or startup environments with a focus on payments
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Management, Mathematics, or related field from a top‑tier institution
- Proven experience in making data‑driven recommendations a

📌 Strategy & Operations Associate - Payments (España)
🏢 N26
📍 España