(Internship) Strategy & Business Analysis

Payplug, the French payment solution designed to deliver the best local performance for merchants, fintechs, orchestrators, payfacs & ISV of all sizes.

With our state-of-the-art technological platform, our conversion-focused functionalities, and our unique mastery of the payment chain, we are looking for people who aim for the best, and even more.

Payplug is a team of 350 passionate individuals dedicated to achieving the greatest ambitions.

Today, we support 17,000 clients from international global leaders (Western Union, Veepee), to leading global payment infrastuctures & distributors (PPRO, Nuvei, ProcessOut ...) to local omnichannel leaders through Shopify & Cégid (Project X, Make My Lemonade).

We are looking for exceptional individual Sales contributors to push forward the boundaries of our targets & value proposition adressing the top 30 global digital strategic accounts of dedicated geographic zones.

You will be in the center of a best of class organization with a dedicated global partnership team, a dedicated PreSales team, a dedicated Implementation team, a dedicated full stack operation team, RevOps capabilities & top noche growth & marketing organization.

Your responsabilities :

Market analysis:

• Analyze payment data for multiple sources to target sales efforts, understand market dynamics, potential risks, and opportunities.
• Identify emerging markets and potential growth sectors for Payplug.

Opportunity Identification and Evaluation:

• Identify business opportunities, with targeting based on their Payplug Performance USP fit and evaluation based on rich and varied datasets.
• Adapt sales pitch with Sales team.

Sales strategy Development:

• Prepare and deliver key business development initiatives for Payplug.
• Contribute to market entry plans and key business partnerships growth with Product / Sales teams.
• Align with Product / Marketing / Sales teams to ensure plans delivery.

Performance Monitoring and Reporting:

• Track & prepare payments KPI delivery to facilitate sales with Marketing / Sales teams.
• Monitore and analyze Payplug Enterprise sales performance with RevOps team.
• Prepare & communicate progress and recommendations to management.

• Top tier engineering or business school (double degree is a plus),
• Ideally experienced in advisory consulting or in the fintech sector,
• Strong project management and cross-functional coordination,
• SQL knowledge is a plus,
• Strong analytical skills & attention to detail, performance-oriented approach (KPI tracking, revenue optimization, merchant activation),
• Mandatory fluency in FRENCH AND ENGLISH

Hiring Process :

• Interview with Lucas, Payment and Performance Director (30') ;
• Business Case at home and debrief with the team (60') ;
• Interview with Nathan, Lead Payment Performance (30') ;

A reference check will be conducted at the end of the hiring process.

Work Conditions / Benefits:

• Start: January 2026
• Duration: 6 months
• Compensation: €1,100 to €1,400 depending on profile
• Coffee, tea, snacks, Monday breakfasts, Friday happy hours, and other events for a rich team life
• Offices located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris (Bibliothèque François Mitterrand)

Financial Benefits:

• Swile card (meal vouchers) worth €10 per day (56% covered by Payplug)
• Public transport or Velib subscriptions covered at 50% by Payplug

Other:

• Moka.care for mental health support
• Windoo: sports, wellness, and personal development activities