Senior Director - M&A 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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa’s Strategic Finance team is looking for a talented Senior Director within Finance organization to support our inorganic growth priorities. Our team directly supports Visa’s Head of Corporate Development with Mergers & Acquisitions and investments that are important to deliver on our strategic priorities.

This is a unique opportunity and calls for an ambitious and hard-working professional who will be highly visible across the business. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of capital markets, investment evaluation, transactions processes and mechanics, and an established track record of supporting deals in M&A Finance roles.

This position will be based in Visa’s San Francisco office.

Essential Functions:

• Ensure rigorous financial analysis, modeling, and due diligence to build business case for potential transactions, develop effective valuation tools for acquisition target that reflect company’s standalone trajectory as well Visa’ value creation potential after integration
• Lead diligence from finance to conduct interviews with target’s management team (CEO, CFO, and others) to build an accurate business case
• Design senior executive presentations for CFO, Investment Committee and Board of Directors to support transaction approvals
• Support integration efforts and ongoing evaluation of transaction performance
• Cultivate trust-based relationships and effectively communicate cross-functionally with the broader transactions team including Corporate Development, business partners, product, comptrollership, HR, Tax, and Legal
• Structure approaches to evaluate transactions within the Payments industry, and provide fact-based understanding of competitive landscape to executive leadership
• Manage a small team of outstanding analysts

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:

• 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 in finance, engineering, mathematics, economics, statistics, or related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of relevant financial analysis work experience, with 5+ years in corporate finance, investment banking or management consulting
• MBA and/or CFA preferred. Understanding of Payments industry and Visa’s business is preferred
• Strong track record of supporting transactions in an M&A Finance role within corporate environment
• Deep knowledge of capital markets and shareholder value-creation principles, both theory and practice
• Strong business acumen and commercial intuition required, outstanding problem-solving, analytical, quantitative skills, and an ability to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
• Persuasive communications skills to build effective documents and lead presentations to senior business leaders
• Strong bias for action and ability to proactively identify and resolve issues. Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and produce time sensitive deliverables
• Enthusiastic work ethic, passion for learning, and acute professional curiosity, strong ability to work with a balance of independence and well-solicited input
• Proven ability to build and lead high performing teams

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will