Senior Accounting Manager

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

Essential Functions

• Manage and mentor a team of two accountants
• Review US GAAP consolidated financial statements, flux analysis for income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows and stockholders’ equity to ensure all results are fully reconciled and analyzed in a timely manner
• Manage monthly close process including preparing and reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations including accruals, prepaids, revenue, intercompany and lease accounting process.
• Manage and review work of other accountants with responsibilities in the functions.
• Collaborate on workflow design with key Finance partners on development of processes, policies, systems, controls, compliance, fixed assets, revenue, inventory, close, etc.
• Implement best-in-class global close processes while documenting effective internal controls
• Support North America Controller and Sr. Director with the preparation of monthly and quarterly reporting packages to management and other periodic reporting as needed
• Maintain a strong understanding of foreign currency accounting and reporting
• Function as a primary interface with the Companies external auditors, and coordinate execution of quarterly and annual audits
• Build toward a best-in-class internal control environment at scale and maintain process documentation and ensure SOX 404 compliance for areas of responsibility
• Assist with quarterly and annual preparation of reporting packages to support our SEC filings
• Partner with key stakeholders to resolve queries and issues
• Lead special projects. Identify any potential financial related risk areas and provide sound recommendations and solutions to Visa for mitigation of the identified risk
• Lead, grow and develop the existing team to support Accounting specific requirements as well as the overall growth of the company.
• Handle ad-hoc projects as assigned by the Management

This position is open to locations in the San Francisco/Bay Area, CA.

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 three days a week, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursday with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD


• CPA equivalent with clear progressive professional accounting experience, preferably in a publicly traded company and/or with a public accounting firm
• Strong accounting, quantitative and analytical skills, and ability to accurately apply key U.S. GAAP to different business situations. Consolidation and Intercompany accounting experience is a plus
• Previous experience managing teams
• Outstanding oral communication, analytical and written skills
• Ability to build teams, strong cross-functional relationships and work collaboratively 
• Ability to manage through change and to lead change when appropriate
• Attention to detail, organized and thorough with the desire for continuous improvement
• Demonstrated experience in driving process improvement
• Proficient with Oracle or similar enterprise accounting system and proficient in utilizing Excel to efficiently analyze data.
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, with expectation of increasing responsibility and scope over time as proficiency in position develops
• Familiarity with the importance of Sarbanes-Oxley and internal control compliance
• Welcomes challenging/complex projects and demonstrates an ability for working smarter not harder by making continuous improvement to the efficiency of processes
• Adapts quickly to changes in a dynamic organi