Senior Finance Manager, US Deals

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.

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Job Description

The US Deal team is a function in Finance responsible for providing financial analysis and deal pricing expertise to compete for client brand decisions. This includes end-to-end deal execution in collaboration with various stakeholders and cross functional teams. The team is critical to delivering against our client deal strategy and Visa's revenue / business objectives and therefore high impact and highly visible to executive leadership.

This role is responsible for the development of detailed financial models and analyses to structure client incentive deals, utilizing and producing different financial outputs as appropriate (including Visa P&L, projected cash flow and amortization schedules). The Senior Finance Manager will collaborate and partner with Visa’s Sales and Legal teams to provide support and direction regarding appropriate contract structures and terms. In addition, they will participate in the resolution of financial structure and contractual issues during negotiations with clients.

The Senior Finance Manager will drive on the more complex and critical client deals. They will also be involved in helping to drive and set the strategic direction of our deals. The position requires the ability to apply strong analytical and critical thinking skills to develop and recommend various deal constructs and strategy.

Essential Functions:

• Own the development of detailed financial models and analyses to evaluate client incentive contract offers, utilizing and producing different financial outputs as appropriate (including Visa P&L, projected cash flow and amortization schedules).
• Manage deals through the offer approval and execution process on behalf of Finance, coordinating and supporting various internal stakeholders.
• Proactively and independently identify, communicate, and solve business issues related to incentive structures, contract language, and incentive negotiations.
• Collaborate and partner with Visa’s Sales and Legal teams to provide support and direction regarding appropriate contract structures and terms.
• Participate and resolve financial structure and contractual issues during negotiations with clients, and the approval of contract language to insure consistency with approved financial terms.
• Prepare presentation documents and assist in presenting findings to all levels of management.
• Prepare ad-hoc analyses and reports as needed.
• Support training and development of more junior team members and account executives on deal processes and tools.
• Provide expertise to stakeholders on deal best practices.

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 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

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
• Analytical / Problem Solving Skills: Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills. Strong data research and manipulation skills. Experience in investment, valuation, or transactional analysis. Ability to be objective in analysis.
• Communication: Strong communication skills: written, verbal, and formal presentation. Able to adjust communication style and messaging for different audience. Ability to articulate and explain financial constructs to a non-financial audience.
• Collaboration: Strong collaboration skills: work well as part