Senior Finance Director - Visa 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.

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Job Description

Visa is looking for a proactive strategic finance leader to join our Value-Added Services (VAS) Finance team.  As the finance lead for the Risk and Identity Solutions Product team, the Senior Director will collaborate with key business executives and operational teams  to develop financial strategies and analytics to enable sound business decision making.  The position involves driving important insights with senior finance leaders and executive management and require strong influence management skills.  The Senior Director will manage and mentor the team to provide strong business partnership.  The ideal candidate will have a deep background in financial and general business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience managing teams and collaborating with various functions.

Essential Functions

Strategic Advice and Partnerships

• Cultivate effective partnerships with senior executives to develop develop long term financial plans
• Acquire and maintain a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities and issues of the  Risk and Identity Solutions business unit, globally
• 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 trusted business partner to all business units, executive management and sales teams

Financial Management

• Lead preparation of the annual business plan and forecasts, driving analysis across a globally matrixed organization
• Interpret and present key findings for senior leadership audience
• Enable management by providing timely, accurate information
• Understand business drivers and recommend measures to further improve results and drive improvements to provide more insights
• Establish efficient processes for monthly and quarterly performance reporting for optimal result

Project Management

• Spearhead ad-hoc projects to improve the overall performance of the team and organization(s)
• Decision support to senior finance leadership on investment or project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments
• Provide thought leadership and guidance over core processes building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables
• Partner with Financial Systems team to develop and execute roadmap to improve and automate revenue and driver analysis

Business Engagement:

• Integration of finance into the business, attend team meetings or understanding of the business
• 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 and return-on-investment discipline
• Robust toolkit to help manage the business and enable management decision making

People Management:

• Attract, recruit and train top talent into the Finance organization
• Mentor and manage a team of high performing finance resources by helping to create a center of excellence and instilling best practices across finance
• Influence, motivate and collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders

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:
•12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10
years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA
/JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
•15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of
experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with
9+ years of experience
•Highly analytical background and extensive experience with financial and
operating systems str