Senior Financial Manager

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

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 Director based in Foster City, California, United States, and will oversee the general accounting and Corporate Services accounting activities for North America. This includes managing the month-end close process, conducting analytical reviews, and researching technical and operational accounting issues.

In addition, the successful candidate will lead the team in collaborating with and providing accounting support to other Visa Finance business functions. This is a leadership role with significant responsibilities and opportunities for collaboration and cross-functional work.

As the Senior Accounting Manager, 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, and mentoring the accounting team.

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

Essential Functions

• Manage and mentor a team of two or more accounting professionals.
• Review US GAAP consolidated financial statements, flux analysis for North America and global consolidated income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows and stockholders’ equity to ensure all results are fully reconciled and analyzed in a timely manner.
• Manage monthly close for North American region and global consolidation processes including preparing and reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations including accruals, prepaids, revenue, intercompany and lease accounting process.
• Manage the internally developed software accounting and reporting, including supporting Visa Technology Business Units and Finance.
• Manage and review work of other accountants with responsibilities in the functions.
• Collaborate on workflow design with key Finance partners on development of processes, policies, systems, controls, compliance, fixed assets, revenue, inventory, close, etc.
• Implement best-in-class global close processes while documenting effective internal controls.
• Support North America Controller and Sr. Director with the preparation of monthly and quarterly reporting packages to management and other periodic reporting as needed.
• Maintain a strong understanding to provide guidance and implement best practices of foreign currency accounting and reporting.
• Function as a primary interface with the Companies external auditors, and coordinate execution of quarterly and annual audits
• Build toward a best-in-class internal control environment at scale and maintain process documentation and ensure SOX 404 compliance for areas of responsibility.
• Assist with quarterly and annual preparation of reporting packages to support our SEC filings.
• Partner with key stakeholders to resolve queries and issues.
• Lead special projects. Identify any potential financial related risk areas and provide sound recommendations and solutions to Visa for mitigation of the identified risk.
• Lead, grow and develop the existing team to support Accounting specific requirements as well as the overall growth of the company.
• Handle ad-hoc projects as assigned by the Management.

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 Advanc