Principal Data Scientist - Payments Operations

About the role

Millions of QuickBooks customers count on us to deliver a frictionless payments experience, powered by a strategic and operational infrastructure that keeps their costs low and money moving quickly. You will:

• Build a new function to monitor and improve key payments metrics, including understanding transaction costs and partnering across the Money Organization to launch initiatives to further improve performance and reliability
• Play a lead role within the company in designing and implementing a longer term strategy for Global Payments cost and performance
• Partners closely with cross-functional teams to continuously evaluate payments networks and providers with the goal of optimizing margins and customer experience
• Drive optimization of existing and new payment processes through workflow automation and innovative solutions
• Partner with a range of cross-functional teams, to ensure open communications flow and alignment on priorities
• Lead internal projects to expand and adjust our payment capabilities to support new business lines, market expansions and changing regulatory requirements in the region
• Ensure financial statement / reporting and payment regulation compliance
• Work closely with operations, product and engineering teams to ensure continuous improvements to Intuit’s best in class payments systems
• Mentor, coach and develop a team of high-performing analysts

Qualifications

• Deep experience in global payments across card payments, alternative payment methods or disbursements
• Technical acumen needed to understand complex payment systems
• 8+ years of analytics experience and direct management experience in a high-growth environment
• Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, including using data to quickly prioritize activities for alignment with business strategy
• Effective cross-functional project management experience and excellent communications skills
• Customer obsessed; identifies what matters most to customers and accelerates velocity in service to their needs
• Financial, accounting and banking systems knowledge
• SQL skills (i.e. ability to self serve on data needs for ad hoc analyses)
• Undergraduate degree in a technical, math or science discipline; MBA or advanced degree preferred (equivalent professional experience will be considered)