Analyst, Strategic Planning - Madrid, Spain

Are you looking for an opportunity to support the identification and execution of strategic initiatives to drive our consumer businesses' growth? Are you able to analyze complex data and translate to key leaders? If you're ready to unleash your potential to help drive change through bottom-up product innovation, join Western Union as Analyst, Strategic Planning in Madrid.

Western Union powers your pursuit.

In this pivotal role, you will work with the Strategy team leadership to identify improvement opportunities in existing businesses or assess new business opportunities. The person in this role will be responsible for supporting overall Omni-channel and Receiver product strategy and development by identifying and executing on product opportunities to allow our 50M+ receivers to track transfers, find locations, request money transfers, redirect payments to accounts, wallets, cash, and more.

Role Responsibilities

• Work with Strategy team leadership to identify improvement opportunities in existing businesses or assess new business opportunities.

• Support Strategy team leadership in assessing and driving improvements in current business strategies, go-to-market approaches and operational tactics.

• Assess market, consumer, and competitive research and analyses (working with research teams) to create a foundation of insights to define the go-to-market strategy for new service offerings.

• Work with Strategy team leadership to develop metric-driven business cases to quantify the investment and potential opportunity of new strategic initiatives and service offerings.

• Build strategic rationale to justify and socialize new opportunities. Define product requirements and work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to bring products to market.

• Champion lean and agile process to promote and instill validated build-test-learn development. Develop, test and define customer requirements for the technology build team and continue to build into product post-launch.

• Manage multiple projects and tasks, leveraging a broad range of skills and capabilities.

• Seek feedback from our customer base for the purpose of influencing the features and functionality of our products.

Role Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of experience in strategic planning, product development, management consulting or similar analyst roles, although candidates with other relevant experience will be considered.

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative function (e.g. Business, Economics, or Math). An MBA is highly preferred.

• An understanding of data, metrics, and a commitment to data-driven decision-making.

• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.

• Experience within a strategy consulting or financial Services industry experience a plus.

• Have a curious and creative individual able to understand the complexities of the company's products and markets quickly.

• Highly effective in synthesizing and analyzing disparate data sources and pieces of information.

• The ability to analyze disparate and complex sets of data and information.

• The skills to assess the reliability of findings, maintaining high standards for accuracy, relevance, and quality in deliverables/

• Highly effective in synthesizing disparate data sources and pieces of information

• Experience with analytical and financial modeling.

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company — transforming lives and communities. To support this, we have launched a Digital Banking Service and Wallet across several European markets to enhance our customers’ experiences by offering a state-of-the-art digital Ecosystem. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional aspirations. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a great compensation package. If you’re ready to help drive the future of financial services, it’s time for Western Union. Learn more about our purpose and people at https://careers.westernunion.com/

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few ( https://careers.westernunion.com/global-benefits/ ). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Your Spain specific benefits include:

• 25 days annual leave – plus 14 public holidays

• Comprehensive life & medical cover – including dependents.

• Contributory pension plan

• Preventative Care Assistance program

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate.

Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

We are passionate about diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, following applicable laws.

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Estimated Job Posting End Date:

05-30-2024

This application window is a good-faith estimate of the time that this posting will remain open. This posting will be promptly updated if the deadline is extended or the role is filled.