Sr. Financial Analyst

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

The North America Value-Added Services (NA VAS) Financial Planning & Analysis team serves as a business partner for North America Group Executives and provides strategic finance support for a variety of underlying Regional business functions. We are an agile, highly visible team that collaborates across all functions/product lines and plays a key role in enabling business growth and effective decisioning through strategic thinking, financial expertise, insightful analytics and thought leadership.

We are seeking an ambitious and experienced Finance Professional to support FP&A for VAS Expenses within the North America P&L.  The person will analyze results, build budgets, maintain forecasts, manage investments and workforce plan, and serve as a strategic partner for North America VAS with a view toward helping accelerate growth on this key area of expansion for the company.  The role will work closely with global & corporate finance teams, and the North America Sales and Solutions team to understand performance, return on investments, ongoing risks, opportunities, and areas of investment to help accelerate growth.   

Essential Functions:

Support North America VAS expense forecasting, reporting, and analytics:

• Act as trusted finance partner to leaders in the North America VAS organizations covering overall expense and investment management
• Analyze return on spending and support investment prioritization decisions
• Manage the financial planning and analytics for the North America VAS sales incentives and marketing programs
• Support financial close, budgeting and forecasting processes by developing timelines and templates, communicating guidance on key deliverables, and building senior executive presentations that bring overall themes and insights together
• Combine observed patterns and trends to create accurate forecasts: be able to triangulate and exercise judgement
• Learn and understand Visa’s financial reporting systems: run data queries, develop financial architecture, and support continuous improvement initiatives

Create long-term views for investment spend and returns:

• Understand product offerings, market dynamics, and underlying drivers
• Build business cases and ROI analysis to support go-to-market strategies and acquisition channels
• Collaborate and coordinate with a broad base of stakeholders (i.e. Corporate Finance, FP&A, Strategy, Controllership, etc.)
• Serve as a subject matter expert within FP&A, guide peers and provide ownership and/or support of strategic initiatives
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to streamline and optimize the existing financial processes and models
• Support or lead wide variety of ad hoc requests and special projects  

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

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

Preferred Qualifications:
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Superior analytical, project management, and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze financial modeling
Advanced proficiency in financial modelling in Microsoft Excel and in building presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint
Strong foundation in Finance and working knowledge of GAAP and/or Visa Accounting Policy preferred
Can convert complex analyses into revealing business storylines
Operates with minimal supervision and able to make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently using strong business judgement
Proactive, strategic thinker with ability to communicate effectively with executive management
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with other func