Thursday, September 29, 2011

Manager, Business Strategy and Analytics PayPal - San Jose


Job Description

PayPal is the world’s favorite way to pay and be paid. It processes more than $100Bn worth of transactions for more than 100 million active accounts in 192 countries. PayPal Mobile is a fast-growing, entrepreneurial division of PayPal. We bring the goodness of PayPal’s secure, convenient payments platform to an ever-wider field of real-world and online transactions via consumers’ mobile phones.

PayPal Mobile business unit is a close-knit, fun and focused team, which is on track to process more than $3Bn of payments in 2011.

We seek an exceptional Strategy and Analytics Manager to join PayPal Mobile. Our group is responsible for setting direction and ensuring strong business results for the PayPal Mobile business.

Your primary job responsibilities will be:

- Developing actionable strategies to grow the Mobile business and its profitability

- Presenting recommendations with clarity and persuasiveness to executives within PayPal as well as partner organizations (merchants, mobile carriers, etc.)

- Building business cases and forecast models to quantify opportunities, using quantitative data and solid business judgment

- Performing analytical deep-dives to identify problems and opportunities, evaluate business performance, and enable data-driven decision-making
Desired Skills & Experience

- Strong analytical mindset and intellectual curiosity

- Ability to see the big picture, combined with a high level of attention to detail

- Comfort with ambiguity and regular context-switching in a fast-paced environment

- Self-motivation, high energy and a strong work ethic

- Ability to work independently AND to ask for help as needed

- Strong communication skills, including ability to translate complex technical and statistical terms into layman’s terms

- Experience building financial models is a strong plus

- Experience analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional data sets is a strong plus

- Expertise in Excel, PowerPoint, SQL and/or R are a strong plus

Basic Qualifications

- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative area, e.g., Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Operations Research, CS, Mathematics

- MBA or quantitative master’s degree is a plus

- Experience working in a top-tier strategy consulting firm is a strong plus

Note: Please submit your GPA and (if taken) GRE/GMAT scores along with your resume

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Email: jobs@aarenconsultants.in
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