• Job Description

  Req#: REF6789E

  Company Description

  McDonald’s UK & Ireland has a proven track record of investing in the development of its employees and offering flexibility as part of its dedication to being a modern and progressive company. Every year, it invests over £40 million in developing people, giving every one of its employees the opportunity to take part in structured training.

  We're a people business just as much as we are a restaurant business. We strive to be the most inclusive brand in the world by building diverse teams who create delicious, feel-good moments that are easy for everyone to enjoy. Joining McDonald's means thinking big every day and preparing for a career that can have impact around the world.

  Job Description

  About the Team: The Global Payments team within Treasury (Finance) is a center of excellence providing strategic and tactical payments insight to a wide set of McDonald’s stakeholders across global, segment, and market Finance, Customer Experience, and Technology teams. The team supports the execution of the payment’s strategy by advising on digital payments initiatives; managing vendor relationships; optimizing performance and cost; and ensuring network compliance.

  ROLE: We are seeking an International Payments Analyst to advise markets in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa to ensure performance and cost optimization, resolve issues, and capitalize on key opportunities related to our overall global payment’s strategy. Due to the dynamic and constantly evolving nature of the Payments industry, the International Payments Analyst must stay on top of changes in a broad range of areas, including, but not limited to, pricing, fees, penalties, government legislation, and legal and compliance requirements. The payment experience spans multiple steps of the customer journey and has a significant impact on our restaurant owner / operators. In this role, you will be a trusted advisor to various country leaders on local payment methods, vendor strategies and contracts, costs with a focus on total return on investment, payment operations best practices, and network compliance.

  Responsibilities include:

  • Support the local market team to deploy and optimize performance of global payments solutions, as well as answer questions on costs, reconciliation, and functionality.
  • Become an expert on costs in effort to educate markets and proactively track change
  • Provide operational guidance in a scalable manner by preparing and updating supporting documentation
  • Ensure performance metrics are continuously monitored, understood, and improved
  • Advise on contracts, pricing arrangements, account setup and performance of payment processors, card networks, and payment providers
  • Model financial impacts of card network fee changes, payment options, or initiatives
  • Be a respected advisor cross-functionally across the McDonald’s organization to ensure the coordination necessary to drive successful outcomes for these markets
  • Support the digital payment strategy including payment options, seeking out local context, and benchmarks.

  The team is comprised of talented individuals who:

  • Are passionate about payments, synthesize information quickly and demonstrate a genuine desire to learn
  • Communicate why the work is important and influence stakeholders to create better outcomes
  • Can work multiple projects concurrently and track progress to desired outcomes across countries.
  • Continually re-evaluates priorities to ensure timely delivery of work.
  • Analyze data in excel and understand the financial implications of payments choices.

  Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree in Business, Accounting and/or Finance Preferred.
  • Data Management; Expertise with dashboards/reporting
  • Confidently tells and presents compelling stories using date to internal & external Stakeholders.
  • Proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

  Desirable Skills & Experience:

  • Experience working with Payment Vendors
  • Experience of Business Intelligence / Data Visualization tools is highly desirable.
    • Tableau / Power BI / Looker / QuickSight / Qlik Sense.

  Personal Qualities:

  • Demonstrable analytical and critical thinking skills.
  • Proven organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, both written and oral.

  Additional Information

  At McDonald’s we are People from all Walks of Life...

  People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonald’s experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

  We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

  We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonald’s or elsewhere.”

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