Senior Financial Analyst - Global Value-In-Kind (VIK) Finance

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 seeking a proactive individual who can drive strategic and financial thought leadership as part of the Global Value-In-Kind (VIK) Finance Team at Visa. Known as the ‘Rocket Fuel’ for Visa’s Value-Added Services (VAS) and Commercial Money Movement Solutions (CMS) businesses, VIK has quickly become a core area for growth. This person will play a critical role in defining how the VIK program’s success is measured, creating and delivering financial analysis and insights to senior leaders, while partnering with multi-functional and regional teams to level up our client VIK business intelligence capabilities.

Essential Functions:

• Support Global VIK Revenue forecasting, reporting, and analytics
• Develop and refine financial models that track global VIK creation and utilization and measure actuals against targets
• Lead consolidation of monthly actuals, ongoing forecasts, budgets, and long-term growth plans
• Analyze results: identify and interpret variances, trends, and insights, findings to management
• Develop timelines and templates, presenting guidance on deliverables, and building senior executive presentations that bring overall themes and insights together
• Combine observed patterns and trends to builds accurate forecast, triangulate and exercise judgement
• Support or lead variety of ad hoc requests and projects, including VIK scorecard metric target proposals
• Learn and understand Visa’s financial reporting systems: run data queries, develop financial architecture, and support finance technology initiatives.
• Enhance VIK business intelligence tools
• Provide guidance on roadmap recommendations to Global Sales & Commercial Operations team on VIK Funding Dashboards
• Monitor data integrity related to VIK balance and drawdown information fed from Visa’s financial databases into business intelligence tools
• Collaborate and coordinate with a broad base of partners (i.e., Corporate Finance, FP&A, Client Incentive Operations, Controllership, etc.) at the global and regional levels
• Build proficiency in concepts to serve as a subject matter authority on VIK within FP&A, guide peers and provide ownership and/or support of strategic initiatives

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s 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
• Outstanding analytical, project management, and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze financial results
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and in building presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience crafting dashboards using SQL query and business intelligence tools (MS Power BI Desktop or Tableau Desktop)
• Familiarity with backend data integration and collaborating with data engineering teams to ensure data integrity and accuracy
• Proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle Revenue Management and Billing, Clarity, Hyperion, GARP or other Visa enterprise applications
• An understanding of client incentives, the payments industry and financial services, and of wider economic and competitive landscape
• Experience with global, enterprise financial systems (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle, etc.)
• Track record in synthesizing complex information to produce impactful management and support informed decision making (risk vs reward, cost vs benefit tradeoffs)
• Intuition for business and understanding of accounting principles
• Demonstrates well-developed strategic, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Is team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, flexible, with excellent presentation skills, oral and writing capabilities
• Operates with autonomy and can make informed, well-reasoned decisions
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