Sr. Financial Analyst - NA Expense, FP&A

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.

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Job Description

North America Financial Planning & Analysis team serves as a business partner for the North America Group Executive and provides finance support for a variety of underlying Regional business functions. We are an agile, highly visible team that collaborates across all functions/product lines and plays a key role in providing financial planning, month-end reporting and decision support analytics to business leaders.

We are seeking a proactive finance professional to join the North America Expense Planning & Analysis team.  This person will be a critical member of the NA Expense team, supporting financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and month-end reporting processes for NA Expenses.

Position Summary

Position has a special emphasis in acting as the financial business partner to Corporate Functions that support North America (HR, Communications, Finance, Government Engagement, Legal and Social Impact), with responsibilities in other areas, as assigned.

Essential Functions:

• Establish and maintain partnerships with the leaders within supported North America functions and serve as a key point of contact for supported North America functions expense issues.
• Acquire and maintain a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities and issues of the supported North America functions
• Partner with the supported functions to prepare & understand periodic forecasts for Income Statement. Ensures forecast appropriately reflects current trends & known discrete items.
• Lead the coordination, organization and execution of quantitative and qualitative analyses for areas supported
• Partner with finance business teams to understand and prepare commentary regarding variances, business drivers and influence forecasting assumptions
• Participate in the annual business plan for the North America sub-functions
• Actively seek opportunities to introduce new tools and improve analysis used for function communications
• Manage the month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting requirements in accordance with deadlines
• Provide support to team members and able to coordinate and execute projects when needed
• Supports or leads wide variety of ad hoc requests and special projects (with common inbound inquiries from NA CFO, Controllership, and the Global Corporate Functions team)

Key Skills:

• Strong analytical skills
• Converts complex analyses into revealing business storylines
• Operates with minimal supervision and able to make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently. Strong business judgement
• Highly detail oriented
• Thrives in an environment that is fast-paced, rapidly changing, and customer service-oriented

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting, month-end close and process development

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Sound foundation in Finance and working knowledge of GAAP and/or Visa Accounting Policy preferred
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Office (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
• Experience with a complex financial system (e.g., Hyperion) is beneficial but not required

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