Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Operations, or similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in consulting, finance, product operations, project management, or equivalent area.
• Experience in using SQL (or other programming / scripting languages) to extract and manipulate data.
• Experience with spreadsheets and building financial and operational models.

Preferred qualifications:

• Domain expertise with content acquisition and distribution payments, TV and media contract terms, and payments compliance.
• Ability to lead and build consensus in a highly cross-functional team environment, especially with internal and external business stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, work with limited information, and influence cross-functional teams.
• Excellent organizational, prioritization, multitasking, interpersonal, and communication skills.

About the job

The TV and media industry is changing and our team is focused on building the future of premium subscription content at YouTube. Our operations team works cross-functionally across engineering, product, business development, and finance on a variety of initiatives spanning YouTube TV, YouTube Originals, emerging content subscriptions, and more. We are looking for proactive and passionate leaders who can help us scale operationally, support payment operations, and help launch new products and partnerships.

As a Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Payments & Business Operations Manager, you will support operational and strategic initiatives across three primary areas in this region: Content acquisition and distribution costs, contract review and compliance, and monthly reporting; Process optimization via service level metrics, workflow drivers, quality reviews, and tooling requirements to drive sustainable scaled operations; Ad-hoc projects, including designing new operational workflows, supporting new product features/launches, etc.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary payments operations point of contact for our EMEA region and involves balancing multiple projects, influencing cross-functional teams, running on-going payment operations, and delivering operational improvements and enhanced tooling.
• Cultivate a trusted service-centric ecosystem and serve as an adviser and business partner to the broader operations team.