Finance Director - NA Value Added Services

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

Job Description and Responsibilities

Our Value Added Services (VAS) business delivers new revenue streams for Visa and augments our core offerings.

We do this through:

• Extending the edges of the network and adding value to all transaction types (Issuing Solutions, Acceptance Solutions)

• Delivering security solutions and driving a state-of-the-art payment experience (Risk and Identity Solutions)

• Solving client problems and attaching value added solutions (Advisory Services)

• Powering new services across new sets of rails and transaction types (Open Banking)

We are seeking a strong Finance Director to join our team. The NA VAS Finance team uses a strategic finance advisory model with key stakeholders across the five VAS business areas while applying data to business and finance decisions, as well as performance measurement. We are an agile, highly visible team that collaborates across functions and products in the NA region to enable business growth and effective decisioning through strategic thinking, financial expertise, insightful analytics, and thought leadership.

Position Summary

Visa is looking for a strategic finance leader to join our North America Value Added Services Finance team. You will serve as a strategic finance partner to the leaders of Visa’s VAS business and work closely with other VAS and Visa finance teams. You will collaborate with senior leadership to develop financial strategies and analytics to enable business decision making, and lead the long-term planning, forecasting, budgeting and financial analytics for the portfolio.  This role also supports strategic decision making on investments and portfolio level tradeoffs through effective financial analytics. The position involves deriving important insights and effectively communicating with senior finance leaders and executive management.  The ideal candidate will have a deep expertise in strategic finance, deal management, financial business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience collaborating with various functions.

This role requires interpersonal skills to cultivate partnerships across functions, regions, and teams, to drive thought leadership, and successfully enact all planning, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end reporting processes. This role presents results and provides insights and analysis to business partners and executives.

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 annual business plan and analysis
• 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, gain understanding of the business
• Tailored, effective presentations, analysis and dialogue with each business partner
• Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments, return-on-investment discipline
• Robust toolkit to help manage the business and enable management decision making

People Management:

• Mentor and coach teammates