Strategic Operations Project Manager & Analyst

Our mission and customers:
We are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. We are proud to be rated 4.8 on Trustpilot, based on 55,000+ reviews. Our culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here).

Our journey:
Founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,600+ Qontoers serving over 600,000+ customers across 8 European countries. We have been profitable since 2023, and we are just getting started.

Our beliefs:
We hire for skills and potential. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program;
It's who we are. We've built a discrimination-free hiring process because the best teams are built on merit.

AI at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work (here). Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it.

As our Strategic Operations Project Manager & Analyst, you will own the execution of Qonto's most complex cross-functional initiatives — and bring the analytical rigour that makes each project land with evidence, not assumptions. You'll take projects from ambiguous brief to clean BAU handover while building the performance frameworks that help our operations factories plan, steer, and improve.

This is a hybrid role: ~70% project leadership, ~30% analytical work. The two are inseparable — you use data to structure, challenge, and measure your own projects, and you contribute to shared performance cycles across the factories.

You'll report to Marie Piquemil, our Head of Operations Enablement.

Project leadership (primary)

• Lead cross-factory operations projects end-to-end: Own the full project lifecycle — governance setup, milestone tracking, cross-team coordination, and clean handover to BAU. Typical scope: initiatives impacting at least two ops factories (compliance framework rollouts, routing and escalation rework, inter-governance harmonisation across Customer Care & Success, AML & Fraud, Banking Operations, and KYCB factories).
• Turn strategic priorities into execution: Before work starts, define the problem, clarify scope, outcomes, success metrics, timelines, and dependencies — so every stakeholder aligns on "what good looks like" before a single slide is built.
• Build and maintain senior stakeholder alignment: Manage dependencies, resolve friction, and keep initiatives moving from decision to delivery — without formal authority. Anticipate misalignment early and elevate when needed.
• Contribute to strategic assessments: Size opportunities, structure business cases and scenarios, and support leadership decisions with clear recommendations and explicit open questions.

Performance analysis (secondary)

• Instrument and track your projects: Define leading and lagging indicators per initiative, build the dashboards and measurement frameworks that prove impact, and deliver ROI measurement post-implementation — not as an afterthought, but as part of the project close.
• Contribute to shared performance monitoring: Support the weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance rhythms (W /M /Q ) across the operations factories — surfacing early signals before they become problems and contributing analytical narratives to steering discussions.
• Run structured deep-dives when needed: Go beyond dashboards — run funnel, cohort, or segmentation analyses to understand a project's root cause or quantify its levers. Deliver clear "so what / now what" with explicit trade-offs.
• Partner with Finance on budget and forecast cycles: Work closely with the Finance team to provide operational input into budget planning and rolling forecasts — translating factory performance trends into forward-looking projections, flagging variance drivers early, and ensuring operations data feeds financial decisions with the right level of granularity.
• Support factories on compensation and performance analysis: Proactively partner with…