SVP, Strategy Group

Team & Position Summary: Newly established, The Clearing House (TCH) Strategy team is responsible for setting TCH’s business strategy, analyzing and executing M&A transactions, strategic partnerships/alliances as well as incubating and developing new ideas into commercially viable and available products. The team has an opportunity to drive alignment across the company and to stay on top of competitive developments in the rapidly evolving payments space.

TCH strategy team will partner with all relevant stakeholders to:

• Conduct an objective and analytically driven strategic analysis of TCH’s payments products, assets and initiatives
• Evaluate internal, external and adjacent opportunities, including potential partnerships and acquisitions to help advance TCH’s capabilities and competitive positioning
• Serve as a central source of payments industry knowledge and expertise, helping to provide thought leadership, research and education
• Leverage these findings to influence next generation payments products, services and infrastructure to meet client’s needs
• Advance TCH’s agenda among key industry groups and consortia
  
  

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: Senior Vice President (SVP) in Strategy Group leads payments related strategic projects for TCH. These could include classic strategy projects as well as partnership and innovation related projects. She leads multiple distinct projects at a given time, frames the strategic work, oversees required analysis, aligns different parts of the organization and ultimately communicates her findings in verbal and written format

• Be a strategic advisor to senior leaders across TCH
• Frame payments related strategic questions and build approaches to solve them
• Lead potential partnerships, M&A and innovation projects
• Engage with all relevant internal and external stakeholders, as needed
• Accountable for clearly communicating the strategic process, analysis, options and recommendations
• Frame the required research and analysis including input from any previous work
• Accountable for staying on top of all payments related developments in the market; be a leader in communicating and galvanizing the company, as needed
• Be a leader on all payments topics and lead progressing the payments thinking at TCH
• Build relationships across relevant areas at TCH
• Challenge conventional thinking
  
  

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g. engineering, math, economics, etc.)
• Graduate degree in MBA or quantitative field
• 15+ years of experience in payments, strategy, partnerships or innovation
• Deep in multiple areas of payments
• Currently in consulting or doing similar work at a bank or payments company
• Lead multiple strategic projects with multiple layers of the organization accountable to them
• Good at operating across a company and communicating with C-suite
• Analytically strong, creative, smart with good work ethic
• Distinctive problem solving and analysis skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• High level adaptability for demands of work challenges and when confronted with change
• Take high degree of personal ownership and pride
• History of teamwork and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
  
  

Success Factors/job Competencies

• Lead managers and analysts in given projects
• Lead and drive multiple projects at a given time
• Develop and use strategic frameworks to evaluate payments-related topics
• Develop insights and hypotheses about new developments in the payments space
• Advance the payments thinking in TCH
• Frame analysis & research that needs to be conducted (e.g. model building, market sizing, financial analysis)
• Communicate results of analysis and findings (verbal and written)
• Problem-solver, creative with good work ethic
• Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships across and up/down the organization
• Adaptability; responds well when confronted with change, ambiguity, adversity, and other pressures
• Personal ownership and pride
• Teamwork
  
  

Physical demands and work environment: The working environment is generally favorable. Lighting and temperature are adequate, and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc. Work is generally performed within an office environment, with standard office equipment available. The position will require two to three days onsite. Additional travel to client meetings, conferences and other events will be required.

The anticipated annual salary range for NY-based candidates for this position is $250,000-$330,000. Base salary and position level will be determined by the role, experience, skill set and location. For eligible positions, discretionary incentive compensation may be awarded contingent on personal and company performance. Our benefits program includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k plan with company contribution and company match, tuition reimbursement and more.