Job Description
INTRODUCING CONVERA:
Want to be part of a transformation journey with a company that feels like a start-up but already has a successful business with significant runway for stronger and faster growth? Are you interested in building a career in Fintech at a place with the ambition and means to become a unique B2B platform that is truly agile-at-scale? Do you want to work somewhere with great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because people are what power our company’s success? Then Convera is the place for you!
In 2021, we launched Convera, a company committed to bringing its customers the most advanced business payments and FX platform in the world. Convera was formed to acquire the assets and companies that previously comprised Western Union Business Solutions, a division of The Western Union Company. Convera’s acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions is subject to requisite work council and trade union consultations, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Following this acquisition, Convera will become one of the largest non-bank B2B cross-borderpayments companies in the world. Leveraging decades of industry expertise to deliver smarter moneymovements, Convera is committed to ensuring that our customers capture more value with every transaction.
WHAT WE DO & WHO WE SERVE:
Providing tech-led payment solutions to a broad range of organizations globally, Convera serves customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers to educational and financial institutions. Delivering solutions ranging from simple currency exchanges to sophisticated cross-border payments platforms and solutions, everything we do is designed to enhance the customer experience and seamlessly power their global commerce needs.
In 2020, the business processed over $110 billion in transactions. With an existing customer base of more than 30,000 small and medium-sized businesses, educational institutions, financial institutions, law firms, and NGOs spanning over 40 countries and territories and 140 currencies, the business possesses a truly global footprint and serves some of the fastest-growing segments of the B2B cross-border payments markets. Powered by a sophisticated and expansive global settlement network, Convera’s capabilities are built on efficiency, accuracy and compliance at its core, alleviating risk and accelerating smarter decision making.As a standalone fintech, Convera will build on its customer-led culture and accelerate its investments in technology, product innovation and people to drive growth.
The ideal candidate has strong experience making change happen by being data & insights-led, a strong communicator and an empathetic influencer. There are many backgrounds that successful candidates could draw from – some of the most common ones include management consulting, product/program management, and internal corporate strategy roles. The candidate should be excited to be part of building this new capability and function for the organization.
In your role as Principal, Global Transformation, you will:
- Help Convera transform into one of the premier business payments and FX platforms in the world.
- Manage a highly ambitious, complex, and cross-functional transformation program.
- Drive informed decision-making on competing priorities to optimize overall results and outcomes.
- Manage execution of the corporate transformation program, taking a more direct and greater leadership role on priority initiatives partnering with leaders across the org.
- Stress test initiatives to help ensure they are robust and truly drive better customer delivery, growth, productivity and margin improvement.
- Bring visibility to resource and budget plans, escalating risks and making recommendations to executives as needed.
- Lead management of cross-functional dependencies, stepping in to drive resolution as needed.
- Lead progress tracking and reporting, including raising key issues to executives.
- Track transformation initiative results & impacts.
- Support colleagues across the business on presenting data-informed insights and recommendations that enable senior leadership to make informed choices.
- Help teams crisply frame a problem, communicate how insights lead to their recommendations, and facilitate decision-making by the C-suite and Board.
- Show teams how to use structured logic, and develop insights from data-led research/analyses to inform potential paths and trade-offs.
- Be a self-motivated go-getter who is willing to take on work outside your comfort zone, and works well in ambiguity.
- Be highly data/insights-led – laying out the evidence when presenting recommendations to the C-suite and other senior leaders to make choices.
- Be a culture-carrier as a critical member of an empowered and enthusiastic team who partners well throughout the organization.
A successful Principal, GlobalTransformation for this fintech should ideally have:
- Strong experience in transformation.
- Prior experience at a top tier consulting firm (Bain, BCG, McKinsey) or tech company a plus
- Experience in B2B.
- High degree of digital / technical literacy i.e. able to understand digital/technical work enough to question approaches, and identify potential risks / dependencies.
- Highly structured ways of working and outstanding problem solving skills with an emphasis on data-driven decision making, even when you don’t have all the data.
- Able to take complicated questions, break them down, and analyze complex quantitative and qualitative inputs to make recommendations.
- Strong communication.
- Build productive and positive.
- Ability to both think strategically and have a practical bias for action with an ownership mentality; will deep dive to drive execution in a fast-paced environment.
- Practical in how to execute the transformation agenda – willing to work hands on to help coach teams on best approaches to deliver results.
- Humble, can-do attitude with a learning mindset and ability to thrive in ambiguity; you are intellectually curious, have a passion for excellence and want to make a big impact.
- Works well in a fast-paced fintech, PE backed environment.
- Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel and Word – skilled in business logic development, analytics/modeling and communication to executive audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree or MBA preferred from an accredited educational institution.
- Able to travel as required.
Indicative salary, bonus & benefits:
- Competitive Salary & Bonus structure
- Employer matched 401(k) plan
- Comprehensive benefits package