Senior Data Analyst
Job Title: Senior Data Analyst (Payments & Scheme Reporting)
The Opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst with strong experience in Payments, Card Schemes, Acquiring/Issuing Operations, and Commercial Reporting to join a global sales operations and reporting function. This role will be responsible for delivering executive-level reporting, forecasting, dashboard development, and data-driven insights across regional and global stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have a blend of Salesforce reporting, Tableau/Snowflake expertise, advanced Excel modelling, and payments industry knowledge, particularly within Visa, Mastercard, acquiring, issuing, merchant, and transaction reporting environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain executive reporting and dashboards for Director and VP-level stakeholders.
- Build automated reporting solutions leveraging Salesforce, Snowflake, Tableau, and AI-driven tools.
- Manage end-to-end sales pipeline reporting from prospecting through contract termination.
- Develop forecasting models for commercial performance, incentives, and revenue tracking.
- Own monthly contract execution, invoice, and operational reporting.
- Produce merchant, POS, transaction, and scheme-related reporting across multiple regions.
- Support regulatory, audit, control testing, and data governance requirements.
- Partner with global stakeholders across EMEA and international markets.
- Identify reporting inefficiencies and drive automation using Copilot, Python, and modern analytics tools.
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Senior Data Analyst, Reporting Analyst, BI Analyst, or Sales Operations Analyst.
- Experience within Payments, Card Schemes, Merchant Acquiring, Issuing, FinTech, or Financial Services environments.
- Strong Salesforce reporting and dashboard development experience.
- Expertise in Tableau, Power BI, or similar data visualisation tools.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, SQL, and large multi-source datasets.
- Advanced Excel skills, including financial forecasting, modelling, and analysis.
- Experience leveraging Python, Copilot, Claude, or similar AI tools to improve reporting efficiency.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with experience supporting senior leadership teams.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent reporting cycles in a fast-paced environment.
Highly Desirable
- Experience supporting Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, or similar payment network environments.
- Knowledge of merchant acquiring, issuing, transaction processing, incentive reporting, and scheme reporting.
- Experience within regulated industries, including Financial Services, Banking, Payments, or FinTech.
- Exposure to multinational or global reporting environments.
Preferred Background
Candidates with experience from payments and transaction-focused organisations such as:
- Visa
- Mastercard
- American Express
- Discover
- Worldpay
- FIS
- Fiserv
- Global Payments
- TSYS
- Adyen
- Stripe
- Checkout.com
- Worldline
- Nexi
- Elavon
- Barclaycard
- Lloyds Cardnet
- Paysafe
- Network International
- Paymentology
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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