Senior Accountant, Consolidations

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

This role is a part of Visa's North America Controllership team, which handles the accounting and finance operations for Visa's corporate activities in North America. The team is a component of the wider Global Controllership function within the Global Finance department.

The successful candidate will report to a Senior Manager based in Foster City, California, United States, and will oversee the accounting activities for North America close and Global Consolidation. Responsibilities include managing the month-end close process, conducting analytical reviews, and researching technical and operational accounting issues.

Additionally, the successful candidate will lead the team in collaborating with and providing accounting support to other Visa Finance business functions. This high-visibility role offers significant responsibilities and opportunities for collaboration and cross-functional work.

As the Senior Accounting Analyst, you will play a key leadership role in the Controllership organization around close-the-books process improvement, system optimization projects, scaling accounting infrastructures, standardizing processes globally.

This position provides the opportunity to lead accounting at a public company that is growing in scale and complexity. You will work cross-functionally and with an experienced and dynamic leadership team dedicated to supporting your career development.

• Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes for North America and global consolidation for all regions, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Coordinate with regional accounting teams to ensure timely and accurate submission of local reporting packages and compliance with accounting policies.
• Prepare the reconciliation of intercompany accounts and transactions, ensuring proper elimination upon consolidation.
• Analyze, interpret, and record financial transactions, and report this information.
• Identify and implement process improvements and automation to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the consolidation process, while assisting with finance system transformation and accounting-to-reporting projects, ensuring best-in-class global close processes and effective internal controls documentation.
• Own specific components of the North America balance sheet and income statement, review balances during month end closing, prepare balance sheet account reconciliations, and perform variance analysis and other analytical reviews.
• Research and document conclusions on accounting issues with references to GAAP pronouncements.
• Prepare quarterly financial schedules to support external reporting and audits.
• Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting operational documents and desktop procedures.
• Maintain a strong understanding of foreign currency accounting and reporting to provide guidance and implement best practices.
• Support the preparation and review of 10K and 10Q filings, including footnotes and disclosures related to assigned areas.
• Regularly interact with various levels of management within and outside of Finance, internal and external audit teams, and participate in cross-functional projects.
• Maintain process documentation and ensure SOX 404 compliance for functional areas of responsibility.

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 Foster City, CA office 3 days a week, 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 Bachelors 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
• CPA equivalent, or CPA in progress with clear progressive professional accounting experience, preferably in a publicly traded company and/or with a public accounting firm.

Preferred Qualifications
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degre