Senior Financial Analyst

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

We are looking for ambitious and experienced finance professional to join the finance team. The Senior Financial Analyst will collaborate with the team to develop financial strategies and drive analytics to enable business decision making. They will drive forecasting and budgeting processes and provide detailed monthly reports and analysis directly to Business Leaders. The position will involve delivering important insights to senior leaders and require expert-level analysis and insight skills to deliver clear and measurable impact to the business.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Planning and Analytics

• Become a trusted business partner to all business units and executive management
• Partner with business stakeholders to create business cases, structure and execute complex financial modeling and analysis
• Identify and implement changes to improve efficiency and effectiveness of operational decision making

Financial Management

• Lead preparation of the annual business plan and analysis for certain business or corporate functions
• Interpret and present key findings directly to senior leaders
• Enable management by providing timely and accurate information
• Understand business drivers and recommend measures to further improve results
• Establish efficient processes for quarterly and monthly performance reporting

Project Management

• Spearhead ad hoc projects to further improve the overall performance of the team and organization
• Decision support to senior finance leadership on investment and project decisions
• Provide thought leadership and guidance over core processes building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables for optimal result

Business Engagement

• Integration of finance into the business, attend team meetings and develop understanding of the business
• Prepare and develop tailored, effective presentations, analysis and dialogue with each business partner
• Timely, meaningful views on their business
• Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments, return-on-investment discipline

Technical

• Strong Excel and Financial modeling capability
• Skilled in spreadsheet automation (Excel VBA, Macros, etc)
• Experience automating dashboards in Power BI and/or Tableau
• Experience working with large data sets
• Experience working with Oracle databases and data migration
• Ability to simplify complex data and processes to succinct communications

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

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree, e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree, e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Superior analytical, project management, and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze financial modeling
• Advanced proficiency in Financial modelling in Microsoft Excel and in building presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Strong understanding of financial accounting principles, MBA or CPA preferred
• Can convert complex analyses into revealing business storylines
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