Payments Strategy Manager

Stellar Health is recruiting a Payments Lead/Manager to lead the overall strategy and execution of our Payments function. Payments is integral to Stellar’s overall mission and vision, and this is an opportunity to work directly with Stellar’s leadership team, as well as collaboratively with Operations, Product, and Engineering teams, to scale a core business function. Sitting within Stellar’s Finance organization, the Payments Lead will report to the Director of Payments, and collaborate closely with accounting and FP&A focused colleagues.

• Own and drive payments strategy and execution at Stellar
• Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations
• Conceptualize and implement processes to scale payment operations 
• Work directly with our product, engineering, operations, and compliance teams to shape our approach to payments within the competitive and regulatory complex environments we operate in 
• Partner with our operations team to deeply understand the needs of our users and build payments related features that improve speed and accuracy of payments
• Influence how we pay providers and scale direct payments to healthcare providers 
• Work together with the rest of our finance team to better integrate payments into our accounting and FP&A processes 
• Improve & optimize on an on-going basis processes, workflows, partners and tools across the business related to payments 
• Identify new innovative opportunities and work with our product team to bring them to life 
• Be an internal and external champion of Stellar's mission and vision, as well as the Payments and Finance team's goals

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
• You have strong analytical skills and great business acumen 
• 1+ years of experience in SQL querying 
• 2+ years of experience in business analysis or 1+years of experience in consulting
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and have shown an ability to bring clarity to complex challenges 
• You thrive working in a high growth/fast paced environment where you have a significant amount of autonomy and agency while be responsible for achieving specific business goals and metrics via clear expectation setting 
• You are outcome and data driven, clearly defining success metrics and measuring progress against them 
• Bonus points if you have experience with Python

• You are mission driven and want to make an impact by promoting value-based care payments to key stakeholders 
• You enjoy working on a passionate team of highly aligned colleagues 
• You don’t take yourself too seriously and take time to enjoy our successes and learn from our mistakes
• You thrive on executing to clearly defined goals and are competitive in achieving them

Pay:

The salary range for this role is $140,000 - $170,000 and will be eligible for an annual performance based bonus. Where a new hire falls within this range will be based on their individual skills and experience, and how these competencies compare across other employees in the same role. Stellar's bands are designed to allow for individual compensation growth within the role.  As such, new hires typically start at the lower end of the range.  Stellar rewards performance and outcomes - should you join the company, you will have the opportunity to grow your salary over time.

Stellar reserves the right to change our compensation bands at any time.