Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

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

The Director is responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis processes, conducting analytics on the entire P&L, collaborating closely with operations support functions, and providing broad decision support analytics to assist business leaders.

This role will be responsible for developing and driving a proactive, collaborative partnership between Corporate Finance and FP&A teams across the global, understanding FP&A team needs, driving constructive and engaging conversations, monitoring stakeholder feedback, and identifying trends and opportunities to advance Visa’s overall business and financial strategy.

This is a highly visible role that includes frequent interaction with senior management and other key internal stakeholders. This role will be ideal for candidates with extensive experience in FP&A teams and technology background. A successful track record of establishing strong business and financial planning processes, strategic frameworks, management reporting and driving critical financial decisions is highly desirable. The successful candidate will have the ability to effectively interact and influence across a matrix business organizational structure and closely liaise with finance and business teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the global budgeting and forecasting process, including budget and forecast cadence and coordination with key stakeholders and actively seek opportunities to improve tools and processes
• Conduct in depth financial analysis in support of quarterly Board of Directors meeting and company earnings
• Prepare succinct and clear executive presentations that simplify complex topics, often with time sensitive deliverables
• Become an expert on Visa’s business model and financial drivers
• Work closely with investor relations and external reporting in preparation for earnings
• Develop partnership with stakeholders throughout organization
• Drive cross-functional alignment on finance processes and planning
• Conduct weekly meetings with global FP&A counterparts
• Lead and coordinate ad hoc requests from company leadership

Financial Leadership

• Ability to handle projects with multiple work streams, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of business problems
• Ability to structure, manage, and coordinate complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders
• Drives an efficient, effective, and comprehensive process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives
• Drives profitable growth by improving visibility, forecasting, consolidation and analysis of results and key metrics while advising senior management on insights and recommended actions
• Creates effective performance metrics to drive accountability and ownership within the FP&A teams and business units
• Ensures the highest level of effectiveness and continued skill development of the Finance team
• Sets performance metrics that can be regularly tracked to measure progress

Business Leadership

• Strong executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior executives and finance partners
• Superior strategic thought leadership
• Experience presenting complex materials in a succinct manner to senior executives to drive effective decision making
• Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across a breadth of stakeholders

Team Leadership

• 5+ years’ experience in leading and managing a world class team
• Commitment to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the finance function
• Ability to provide mentorship and be an effective coach and have challenging employee conversations when necessary
• Team oriented, collaborati