Revenue Operations & Data Analytics

Anthony Skolozdrzyk-Ardouin

Director of Revenue Operations & Data Analytics, Nexi Group — ex-PayPal

I turn complex data into growth strategies, forecasting models and executive decision-making frameworks — across 17+ years in payments, eCommerce and finance.

  • Münster, Germany — Remote across Europe
  • 17+ years — PayPal, Nexi, Avis, Twenga
  • 4 languages — FR · EN · DE · ES
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17+ Years in payments & analytics
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17+Years of experience
$1.5B+Forecast oversight (eBay/PayPal)
2M+Customer accounts re-segmented
4Countries worked in

About

Data-driven leadership, built across payments and finance

Revenue Operations & Data Analytics executive with 17+ years of international experience across PayPal, Nexi, Avis and Twenga. I help organizations transform complex data into growth strategies, scalable analytics capabilities, forecasting models and executive decision-making frameworks.

Currently leading Revenue Operations and Analytics initiatives at Nexi, one of Europe's largest payments companies, with a focus on business performance, forecasting, commercial strategy and data-driven growth.

At PayPal, I spent 7+ years across three roles — including overseeing the forecast of eBay's turnover across regions (a $1.5B+ P&L input to investor guidance), and leading commercial and product analytics for major front-book initiatives across EMEA. I was nominated by PayPal's CFO for the 2017 Emerging Leadership Program in California.

I'm a self-taught programmer covering the full data journey from raw logs to boardroom-ready insight — SQL, Python and Power BI — and I also build websites on the side (Laravel / VPS).

Multicultural and multilingual: born in France, based in Germany since 2016. I've also worked from Paris, Berlin and London, and lived 6 months in Mexico City.

Revenue Operations (RevOps)
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Financial Modeling & Forecasting
Payments & eCommerce
Executive Business Partnering
Building Analytics Capabilities & Data Platforms
International Leadership across Europe

Experience

17+ years across payments, finance and BI

From yield management to running analytics for a European payments leader — grouped by company, in the order I lived it.

Nexi Group

Nov 2021 — Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Germany, Remote

Director of Revenue Operations

Mar 2026 — Present

Germany

  • Leading Revenue Operations for Nexi's eCommerce division — commercial operations, revenue analysis and cross-functional performance management.

Director, Data Analytics & Business Performance

Nov 2021 — Mar 2026

Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Remote

  • Built the analytics and financial modeling capability from scratch for Nexi's newly-launched high-risk division (crypto & iGaming) — from data source identification with data engineers, through pipeline creation, to executive-ready insight and business-model projections.
  • Mandated by the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Product Officer to co-pilot a multi-team task force unifying analytics capabilities across the ~1,000-person eCommerce division and its many revenue streams and entities.
  • Worked across Hive/Hadoop, Druid + Superset, Oracle SQL, Power BI and MSSQL, with direct touchpoints with Group eCom's CFO and CEO.

PayPal

Jul 2014 — Nov 2021 · 7 yrs 5 mos

Global Finance Lead, eBay Financials & Marketplaces Segment

Sep 2020 — Nov 2021

Germany · Remote (working with the US office)

  • Global owner of the monthly financial forecast splitting PayPal and eBay (customer #1) across all countries — a $1.5B+ input to the quarterly investor earnings guidance.
  • Built the "Marketplaces" merchant segment from its creation: financial opportunity sizing, sales & sales-ops tracking, BI reporting, and business partnering with international units.
  • Led a SWAT team of IT engineers, data engineers and financial analysts to automate PayPal's worldwide financial forecasting process.

Senior Manager, Analytics — Finance (Germany, Switzerland & Austria)

Nov 2016 — Sep 2020

Berlin Area, Germany

  • Advised PayPal's German management team with data-driven analysis across product, marketing, risk and sales initiatives; partnered with central finance on budget planning.
  • Led the customer portfolio re-segmentation of 2M+ customers ($1.1B impact) supporting a global sales transformation.
  • Introduced machine-learning techniques for budget bottom-up forecasting across 7,000+ of PayPal's largest merchants; led the global 2021 bottom-up forecasting process across regions.
  • Advised sales leadership on market-share defense (Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, post-eBay split) using customer scoring models.

Manager, EMEA Product Analytics

Dec 2015 — Nov 2016

Paris Area, France

  • Supported product managers across Europe with data-driven insight through product creation, launch and ramp phases; managed a team of 2.

Manager, Product Analyst — Western Europe

Jul 2014 — Dec 2015

Paris, Île-de-France, France

  • Analytics lead for 8 senior product managers across Western Europe — SQL, dashboards and ad hoc analysis.

Twenga

Feb 2010 — Jul 2014 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Paris, France

Head of Business Intelligence

Jun 2011 — Jul 2014
  • Owned dashboard creation, analysis and reporting support for the management team of this ~120-person price-comparison engine.
  • Built and led a team of 3 analysts.

Business Analyst

Feb 2010 — Jun 2011
  • B2B product analytics; supported the creation and launch of Twenga's B2B solution for e-commerce websites.

Avis Budget Group International

Apr 2008 — Feb 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, UK

Pricing Analyst

Apr 2008 — Feb 2010
  • Yield manager responsible for 2 regions of the French market — maximizing price through demand/offer matching.
  • Collaborated with engineers on demand forecast accuracy and fleet localization optimization, alongside operations, marketing and strategy.

SKEMA Business School

Master in Management (Grande École) · 2003 — 2007

Ranked 12th worldwide by the Financial Times (2019), 4th among French schools represented. Exchange semester at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City.

PayPal Emerging Leadership Program (ELP)

2017 · California, USA

Selective internal leadership program at PayPal's California HQ — participation based on nomination by the CFO.

Skills

What I bring to the table

A blend of finance, analytics engineering and commercial leadership — built for organizations that need to trust their numbers.

Revenue Operations & Strategy

RevOps Commercial Strategy Financial Modeling & Forecasting Executive Business Partnering Budget Planning

Data & Analytics

SQL Python Power BI Data Pipelines & Warehousing Hive / Hadoop · Druid · Superset

Payments & eCommerce

Authorization Rates Fraud & Risk Rules PSD2 Merchant Acquiring Crypto & iGaming

Leadership & Languages

Cross-functional Leadership International Team Building French (native) English German Spanish

Projects

Selected work

Side projects where I apply the same analytical rigor to my own products.

Payments Analytics · Side Project

Ledger — Payment Optimization Platform

A payment analytics dashboard that helps merchants understand and reduce transaction declines. Merchants import their payment history (Stripe, Adyen, Checkout.com, or direct connection) and get a breakdown of declines by payment method, issuing bank and failure reason — plus a ranked set of recommendations, each sized by estimated financial impact.

Authorization Rate Analysis Decline Diagnostics False-Positive Detection Recommendation Engine
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Top recommendations surfaced (sample dataset)

  • Automatic retries for insufficient funds +€69,000/yr
  • Local payment method addition +€41,700/yr
  • Simplified 3DS flows +€34,300/yr
  • Fraud rule review +€26,300/yr
  • Pre-expiry card notifications +€23,000/yr
  • PSD2 exemption application +€7,000/yr
81.4% Current authorization rate
+4.6 pts Potential improvement identified
1,842 Monthly declined transactions analyzed
€95,784 Monthly revenue at risk from declines
211 False positives detected
€201,300/yr Estimated recovery across 6 recommendations

Fraud Analytics · Side Project

Fraud Radar — Card Payment Fraud Analytics Dashboard

An interactive fraud analytics dashboard covering 20,000 card transactions, built from scratch in vanilla JavaScript with full Power BI-style cross-filtering — click any chart segment and every KPI and chart updates instantly. The same analysis and report could equally be delivered in Power BI or Qlik; this build shows the same dashboarding discipline translated into a lightweight, framework-free JavaScript app.

Fraud Detection Cross-Filtering Power BI · Qlik · JavaScript Risk Scoring
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Key risk signals surfaced (sample dataset)

  • No-authentication fraud rate (vs. 0.78% for biometric) 4.44%
  • AI-generated scam attempts flagged 375
  • Fraud-rate lift from an AI-scam flag, largest of all risk factors +7.5 pts
  • Top merchant category for fraud cases Electronics
  • Avg. fraud ticket vs. legitimate ticket 1.4x
  • Fraud transactions carrying ≥1 risk flag (vs. 22.4% of legit) 65.8%
1.70% Fraud rate across 20,000 transactions
$61,444 Fraud amount flagged at risk
339 Confirmed fraud cases analyzed
4.44% Fraud rate with no authentication
375 AI-generated scam attempts flagged
65.8% Fraud transactions carrying ≥1 risk flag

Merchant Education · Side Project

Decline Code Lookup — Card Decline Code Glossary

A free, independent glossary that translates Visa, Mastercard, and American Express decline codes into plain English for merchants — what each one means, why it happens, and exactly what to do about it. Built as a static Astro site with a dedicated page per decline reason, structured data, and an llms.txt file, aimed at being both search-engine and AI-answer-engine friendly.

Decline Code Glossary SEO / GEO Content Astro Payments Education
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What's covered

  • Card networks mapped per decline reason Visa, Mastercard, Amex
  • Canonical decline reasons documented 40
  • Categorized failure types 6
  • Structured data for AI answer engines JSON-LD + llms.txt
40 Decline codes documented across Visa, Mastercard & Amex
50 Indexable pages generated at build time
6 Categorized failure types, from fraud to technical errors
100% Static site — zero backend, deployed via GitHub Actions

FAQ

Quick answers

Who is Anthony Skolozdrzyk-Ardouin?

A Revenue Operations & Data Analytics Director with 17+ years of international experience, currently leading Revenue Operations at Nexi, one of Europe's largest payment processors, after 7+ years at PayPal in analytics and finance leadership roles.

What does Anthony do at Nexi?

Leads Revenue Operations, and previously built the analytics and financial modeling capability for Nexi's crypto and iGaming vertical, co-leading the effort to unify analytics across the ~1,000-person eCommerce division.

What is Anthony's experience with payment authorization rates?

He built Ledger, a payment analytics platform that helps merchants diagnose and recover declined-transaction revenue by analyzing authorization rates, decline reasons and issuing-bank performance — see the Projects section above.

What industries and tools does Anthony specialize in?

Payments, eCommerce, crypto and iGaming, using SQL, Python, Power BI, and enterprise data platforms including Hive/Hadoop, Druid, Superset, Oracle SQL and MSSQL.

Which languages does Anthony speak?

French (native), English (fluent, daily working language), German (fluent, home language in Germany) and Spanish (conversational, after living in Mexico City).

Get in touch

Have an interesting data, payments or growth challenge?

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