Director, Financial Analysis

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

Support regional leadership in delivering business, analytical and financial insights focused on Visa’s overall business and performance and driving regional FP&A process and analysis standardization and best practices. Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to identify opportunities while meeting business and global process requirements.

This is a unique opportunity and calls for an ambitious and hard-working professional who will focus on key components of Visa’s overall business and FP&A processes.  The ideal candidate will have strong technical, experience and analytical skills and be a self-motivated, highly collaborative team player. This position will be based in Visa’s Miami office.

Responsibilities include:

• Directly supporting the LAC Marketing Team in setting and maintaining their budgets, evaluating the ROI of their spending, and establishing and measuring KPI’s.

• Analyze business trends emerging by country, merchant category, product type, etc. and evaluate the factors driving their evolution and forward-looking results

• Prepare and executive presentation materials and present performance to LAC stakeholders

• Promote knowledge, standardization, insights integration and sanity check into the planning process at deeper level in coordination with regional and country teams

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business and provide analysis, reports, and presentations

• Ad-hoc FP&A requests and projects from business lines and the executive team

• Build strong knowledge of Visa's business through constant communication with partners across Finance and all other functions

• Utilize business understanding to perform complex financial and statistical analysis that lead to business and predictability insights

• Distinguish one-off and sustainable effects and relationships to support revenue drivers forecasting

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:
•10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
•12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
•Bachelor's degree in finance, engineering, accounting, mathematics, economics, or related quantitative field, MBA and/or CFA preferred
•Expert skills in PowerPoint and MS Excel, including advanced application of pivot tables, macros and formulas and ability to quality check the work of others
•Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, ability to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
•Experience designing financials dashboards to focus managerial attention
•Ability to cultivate effective relationships and communicate effectively cross-functionally and with all levels of management
•Proven expertise in modeling techniques and managing large data sets
•Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
•Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverables
•Enthusiastic work ethic, passion for learning, and acute professional curiosity, able to solve problems with balance of independence and well-solicited input
•Strong leadership skills generating support and momentum among functional peers
•Global or multi-national business experience preferred
•Fluency in English and Spanish required, Portuguese a plus

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.