Senior Finance Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa is looking for a strategic finance leader to join our Value Added Services VAS team, supporting the Risk and Identity Solutions Product Portfolio. The Senior Manager will collaborate with leadership to develop financial strategies and analytics to enable sound business decision making.  The Senior Manager will lead several financial analyses including long-term planning, forecasting, and budgeting. This role also supports strategic decision making on investments and portfolio level tradeoffs through effective financial analytics. The ideal candidate will have a deep expertise in financial business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience collaborating with various FPA functions.

Essential Functions

Strategic Advice and Partnership

• Partner with business leads to evaluate the financial impact of potential investments and develop long term financial plans

• Develop and present strategic insights about the business

• Align functional goals and strategies to broader global initiatives

• Lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting

• Become a valued business partner to all business units and executive management

Financial Management

• Lead preparation of the monthly, quarterly, and annual business plans and analyses, including enhanced financial and business reporting and long-term growth forecasts

• Interpret and present key findings for senior leadership audience

• Understand business levers and recommend measures to further improve results, including pricing analysis

• Establish efficient processes for monthly and quarterly performance reporting for optimal result, profit and loss generation and review

• Drive coordination, organization and execution of quantitative and qualitative analyses on both revenues and expenses

Project Management

• Spearhead ad-hoc projects to further improve the overall performance of the team and organization

• Decision support to senior finance leadership on investment, project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments

• Provide thought leadership and guidance over core processes building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables

• Build business cases to support investments, go-to-market strategies and new product launches

Business Engagement

• Build relationships and network with a broad base of team members - operational executives, staff, controllership, other finance teams - in the business and be the point of contact for finance issues

• Integration of finance into the business, attending team meetings and understanding of the business

• Tailored, effective presentations, analyses and dialogue with each business partner

• Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments, return-on-investment discipline

• Manage robust toolkit to help analyze the business and enable management decision making

People Management

• Mentor or manage a team of high performing finance resources by helping to create a center of excellence and instilling best practices across finance

• Drive quality and efficiency improvements into standard financial processes

• Influence, motivate and collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders

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.

Work Authorization: Permanent Authorization