Senior Finance Director

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.

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Job Description

We are seeking a strong Senior Finance Director to join our team. The Global Advisory Finance team supports one of the fastest growth engines at Visa, and closely partners with key stakeholders across Global and Regional Advisory teams. This is a terrific opportunity to partner with senior executives to deliver an ambitious strategic and financial agenda for Visa.

This leader will serve as a deputy CFO for the Advisory Services and will manage the end-to-end scope of FP&A for the business unit. The role holder will be leading a high-performance team focused on financial planning, reporting, and performance management in collaboration with key business leaders and operational teams across the globe, while developing financial strategies and analytics to enable sound business decision making. This leader will influence broader matrix organization to maximize financial outcomes for Visa.

The position involves deriving important insights and effectively communicating with senior finance leaders and executive management of the Advisory Business unit.  The ideal candidate will have a background within the Consulting industry with deep expertise in strategic finance, financial analysis, and business partnering, and demonstrated experience in cross-functional collaborating.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Advice and Business Partnership:

• Partner closely with cross-regional and cross-functional Finance leads to understand revenue drivers and elevate the level of analysis around revenue and related costs
• Partner closely with Global Advisory leads in developing multi-year strategic roadmap
• Establish and grow strong relationships with a broad base of business stakeholders as a valued business partner
• Align functional goals and strategies to broader global initiatives
• Develop and present strategic insights about the Advisory Services business

Financial Management:

• Lead key financial activities for the Advisory Services business, including multi-year strategic planning, annual financial planning, quarterly outlook and business reviews, month-end analytics and management reporting, and on-going financial risks and opportunities assessment
• Provide meaningful driver-based analytics and insights to senior leadership and executive management audience on the Advisory Services’ business’ financial performance and forward-looking outlook
• Understand business levers and recommend measures to further improve financial results and business margins, while assessing financial risks and opportunities, and evaluating options to optimize return on investments
• Establish efficient processes and expand the reporting and analytics capabilities across broader Advisory

Project Management:

• Spearhead a variety of projects to further improve the overall performance of the business partnership and support for Advisory and Finance organizations
• 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 a fast growth business, and develop in-depth understanding of a complex business model
• Able to provide tailored, effective presentations, analysis and dialogue with a multitude of business partners across the organization
• Leading the planning and budget cycles, while optimizing investments and return-on-investment discipline
• This role requires interpersonal skills to cultivate partnerships across functions, regions, and teams, to drive thought leadership, interrogate business growth assumptions and successfully enact all planning and reporting processes.

People Management:

• Mentor and coach team members by instilling best practices across finance
• Cultivate strong relationships and communicate effectively with cross-functional and multi-geographical stakeholders
• Influence, motivate and collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days