Senior Director, Visa Commercial Solutions Finance

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 is looking for a proactive strategic finance leader to join our Commercial & Money Movement Solutions (CMS) Finance team.  As the finance lead for the Visa Commercial Solutions (VCS), the Senior Director will collaborate with key business executives and operational teams to develop financial strategies and analytics to enable sound business decision making.  The position involves driving important insights with senior finance leaders and executive management and require strong influence management skills.  The Senior Director will manage and mentor the team to provide strong business partnership.  The ideal candidate will have a deep background in financial and general business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience managing teams and collaborating with various functions.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Partnerships

• Highly motivated finance leader who easily cultivates effective relationships with senior executives and staff both inside and outside the Finance organization
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a peer with business leaders in global and regional function
• Make decisions with limited guidance, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to senior management, while supporting syndication with stakeholders across the organization
• Acquire and maintain a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities and issues of the  business functions, globally
• Collaborate with business leaders to quantify the financial impacts of operational risks and opportunities. Successfully apply insights learned to the planning and forecasting processes
• Strong executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior executives and external business partners
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities

Finance

• Cross-functionally partner with other global functions to lead the annual budget, rolling forecast and month-end close process
• Partner with Functional Regionals finance teams to understand and prepare commentary regarding variances, business drivers and influence forecasting assumptions
• Partner with functional stakeholders to create detailed business cases and supporting financial models, when necessary
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with superb attention to detail, ability to drive complex financial modeling and analysis with thoroughness and accuracy to quantify impact of investments and explain viability of new business models
• Identify and implement changes that improve efficiency and effectiveness of operational decision making

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 Qualification

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• MBA strongly preferred
• Investment banking and/or management consulting strongly preferred
• Experience leading a Financial Planning & Analysis (or similar) team with a thorough understanding of financial accounting and management reporting
• Proactive, strategic thinker
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Superior problem solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with executive management
• Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
• Excellent interperson