Sr. Finance 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

Visa is looking for a strategic finance manager to join our Visa Commercial Services (VCS) team. The Senior Manager will collaborate with leadership and sales teams to develop financial strategies and analytics to enable sound business decision making.  The Senior Manager will lead several financial analyses including long-term planning, forecasting, and budgeting. The ideal candidate will have a deep expertise in financial business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience collaborating with various FP&A functions.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Advice and Partnership:

• Partner with business leads to evaluate the financial impact of potential investments and develop long term financial plans
• Develop and present strategic insights about the business
• Align functional goals and strategies to broader global initiatives
• Lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting
• Become a valued business partner to all business units and executive management

Financial Management:

• Lead preparation of the monthly, quarterly, and annual business plans and analyses
• Interpret and present key findings for senior leadership audience
• Understand business levers and recommend measures to further improve results
• Establish efficient processes for monthly and quarterly performance reporting for optimal result

Project Management:

• Spearhead ad-hoc projects to further improve the overall performance of the team and organization(s)
• Decision support to senior finance leadership on investment / project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments
• Provide thought leadership and guidance over core processes building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables

Business Engagement:

• Integration of finance into the business, attend team meetings / understanding of the business
• Tailored, effective presentations, analyses and dialogue with each business partner
• Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments, return-on-investment discipline
• Manage robust toolkit to help analyze the business and enable management decision making

People Management:

• Mentor and/or manage a team of high performing finance resources by helping to create a center of excellence and instilling best practices across finance
• Influence, motivate and collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders.

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:

• 8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 5 or more years of experience with
an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
• 3+ years of experience in FP&A (or similar) with an understanding of financial structuring and
evaluation
• Superior problem identification and solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with
executive management
• Detail oriented, ensures accuracy and quality of financial analyses
• Solid experience in Hyperion and Excel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in the Payment industry a plus
• Knowledge of Visa systems and practices a strong plus
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with executive management
• Excellent interpersonal and people management skills
• Ability to work effectively with other functional areas and understand the ope