Financial Analyst

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa’s Value Added Services (‘VAS’) business delivers new revenue streams for Visa and augments our core offerings. We do this through:

• Extending the edges of the network and adding value to all transaction types (Issuing Solutions, Acceptance Solutions)
• Delivering security solutions and driving a state-of-the-art payment experience (Risk and Identity Solutions)
• Powering new services across new sets of rails and transaction types (Open Banking)
• Solving client problems and attaching value added solutions (Advisory Services)

The VAS Risk & Identity Finance team is seeking a Financial Analyst to join our team. The Finance team uses a strategic finance advisory model with key stakeholders to apply data to business and finance decisions, as well as measure performance. The team serves as a partner for executives and provides finance support for the Risk & Identity teams that are propelling growth at Visa. We are an agile team that collaborates across functions, regions, and products to play a key role in providing financial planning, month-end reporting, and financial support for key decisions.

Position Summary:

As a Financial Analyst you will serve as strategic finance support to VAS FBP’s and Risk & Identity stakeholders. This role requires interpersonal skills to cultivate partnerships across Finance and Product, regions, and teams, to drive thought leadership, and successfully enact planning, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end reporting processes. This role presents results and provides insights and analysis to finance and business stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a background in financial analysis and headcount analysis, preferably with a public company, and proven results collaborating with team members and supported functions.

Essential Functions:

• Supports the coordination, organization, and execution of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Examples of activities include traditional budgeting and forecasting, month-end close, enhanced financial / business reporting, business case development, pricing analysis, P&L generation, and business planning support.
• Exercises diligence in both method and evaluation of results generated.
• Supports business case development for key initiatives, ad hoc requests, and special projects.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with a broad base of key stakeholders (i.e., executives and staff) in the business and serves as a key point of contact for finance issues.
• Acquires and maintains a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities, and issues of the business.
• Applies overall analytical skills and experience to become a highly valued business partner.
• Identifies and implements changes that improve efficiency and effectiveness of operational decision making.
• Learn and understand Visa’s financial reporting systems: run data queries, build sustainable financial reporting, and maintain rigor in process.
• Builds near and long-term views for growth that align with business strategy and data.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced
Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications:
• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2
years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD,
MD) OR
• 2 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree in finance, engineering,
accounting, mathematics, economics, statistics or related quantitative field or
an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
• Kind and supportive of both colleagues