Strategy Analyst (Expansion & Licensing)

About the Team:

Aspire is growing its business in multiple regions around the world which this role will help enable as a core member of the global strategy team. You’ll join a small but high-performing strategy team responsible for unlocking our growth opportunities. You will work on ways to lay pathways to fast-track license approvals and clear traditional regulatory hurdles to help expand our business into new markets.

About the Role

• All Rounder: Be an all-rounder who can be trusted to contribute to a variety of licensing related expansion projects to expand Aspire’s presence in multiple regions.
• Strategy: Help size, define and map new markets by conducting research on the licensing and regulatory landscape of new markets including competitor analysis.
• Project management: Work collaboratively with local and international cross-functional teams to drive our licensing plans related to our local go-to-market strategies.
• Process improvement: Adapt the Strategy Team’s existing processes and build new ones to help scale our licensing plans to work across multiple regions.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Work closely with various functional teams including Ops, Legal, Finance, Product and Compliance as part of our global licensing machine.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a business, management or related field
• 2 to 4 years of work experience, ideally in the fintech, payments, consulting, banking and/or financial services industries
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to build tools to digest complex data and generate actionable insights for management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on when needed to make things happen today instead of tomorrow, building things from scratch
• Able to work independently but also take direction from others regarding specific requirements
• Self-driven and take initiative all the time to help us build and expand our business globally