Sr. Financial Analyst, NA Visa Direct FP&A

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.

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Job Description

Visa Direct is a payment service that Visa provides to clients (sending and receiving financial institutions, processors, merchants, and service providers) to facilitate fund transfers/disbursements to accounts around the world using push payment technology. The NA Financial Planning & Analysis team serves as a strategic business partner for business leaders in NA Visa Direct (NAVD), providing essential finance support. The candidate will be a key member of the highly visible NAVD team and collaborate across a matrixed organization focusing on actualizing, delivering month-end reporting, maintaining database drivers, support budgeting/forecasting, and improving financial models.

Essential Functions

• Support North America Visa Direct forecasting, reporting, and analytics
• Act as trusted finance business partner to leaders in the NAVD organization covering drivers and revenue
• Lead month-end activities, including actualizing drivers by program
• Analyze monthly and quarterly results, interpret key variances, trends, and insights, and present findings to management
• Contribute to Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting activities within the scope in line with regional and global requirements
• Lead the rebate process, which includes quarterly reforecast, actualizing and reporting of new contracts.
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes by developing timelines and templates
• Creating and maintaining detailed deal tracking for all Money Movement executed deals, providing management with more real time analysis on cost of volumes for respective clients
• Combine observed patterns and trends to create accurate forecasts, and exercise judgement to triangulate data
• Learn and understand Visa's financial reporting systems, run data queries, develop financial architecture, and support finance technology initiatives
• Contribute to ad hoc/monthly/quarterly/yearly analysis of Market and Client trends to be used by all supported departments for Executive reviews
• Evaluate existing models and seek opportunities to introduce new tools and identify areas of opportunity for improvement and efficiencies (i.e. Self-serve dashboards)
• Collaborate and coordinate with a broad base of stakeholders (i.e. Corporate Finance, FP&A, Strategy, Controllership, etc.)

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
•5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least
2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD,
MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

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
•Foundational understanding of multi-party economic model (issuers, acquirers,
processors, interchange, merchants, cardholders, etc.) and performance
measurement/reporting
•Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and business performance analytics
•Converts complex analyses into revealing business storylines
•High proficiency in Excel with demonstrated ability to improve processes via
automation and end-to-end efficiencies
•Additional experience with a complex financial system (e.g., Hyperion, Tableau,
PowerBI) a plus
•Ability to effectively work independently and collaborate as part of a cross-
functional, global and matrixed team
•Highly detail oriented with excellent planning and time management skills

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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