Business Manager, Apple Gift Card

The Apple Gift Card is the gift card for everything Apple and is available in dozens of countries and tens of thousands of stores worldwide. And Apple Account in Wallet holds your funds - so you can quickly and conveniently check your balance, add money, view past purchases, and pay for everything Apple, whether you're shopping at an Apple Store or in the App Store.

The Apple Gift Card team is seeking an analytically-driven and independent Business Manager to support critical initiatives for the Apple Gift Card and Apple Account products.

Description

In this role, you will help chart the future direction of Apple Gift Card by monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators, projecting future business results, identifying recommendations to product, marketing, and business development teams, investigating new opportunities, and ensuring the business can execute against its long-term strategy.

Our team also manages spend on promotions, placements and marketing with our Gift Card partners including both forecasting along with invoice and purchase order management.

You will partner directly with product, marketing, business development, operations, strategy and finance teams, working cross-functionally to deliver results, as well as working with external partners such as integrators and merchants to help deliver on our product strategy and roadmap.

You should have experience and subject matter expertise in financial modeling, payments, data science, and finance. Previous experience working in the gift card value chain at an integrator or merchant is a major plus.

Some travel required (20-25%).

","responsibilities":"Forecast, analyze, and report business performance for Apple Gift Card and Apple Account through weekly email updates to senior leadership along with monthly and quarterly business reviews

Analyze business performance with the goal of identifying recommendations for cross-functional teams to address through features and other improvements

Report, forecast and manage spend on promotions, placements and marketing with our Gift Card partners

Improve expense management and tracking by developing and testing new system requirements

Provide analytical support to evaluate operational decisions

Develop financial analysis for new features and strategic opportunities (e.g., financials, market sizing)

Develop pricing recommendations and create/evaluate frameworks for partnership deal constructs

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in economics, finance, accounting, management, entrepreneurship or a related quantitative field

Experience working in the gift card value chain at an integrator or merchant

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum 8 years of experience with a proven track record of success in roles focused on financial modeling, business analysis, finance, and data analysis

Experience forecasting P&Ls in financial services businesses with ability to implement model best-practices in both forecasting models and business cases using Excel

Experience developing business cases around market opportunities and partnerships - including strategy development, market segmentation, competitive analysis, and financial analysis

Ability to collaborate with different teams, create presentation materials and present to senior leaders to guide business decisions

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong experience with Keynote - ability to synthesize complex topics and distill key business dynamics to senior leaders and partners

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