Vice President, North America Controller

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description

The Vice President, North America Controller (“Controller”) position has responsibility for ensuring the integrity and accuracy of the financial statements for Visa’s activities in the North America (NA) geographies, which include the United States and Canada as well as leading several global financial processes. Financial reporting for which the Controller will be responsible includes, but is not limited to: (i) U.S. GAAP financial results included in Visa’s consolidated financial statements; (ii) various regulatory reports to the U.S. Federal Government and other agencies; (iii) internal reports for management reporting purposes; (iv) global process owner for Treasury controllership support, Payables, and Travel/Expense. While the Controller is not primarily responsible for the preparation of management reporting, they will work with other members of the Finance team to ensure the integrity of these reports under U.S. GAAP.

The Controller is also responsible for the overall health and effectives of the control environment in North America. This position will oversee all Controllership functions and will embed a culture of continuous process improvement to drive efficiency and future scalability, as well as maintain streamlined and effective internal controls. The role will require extensive interaction with various Finance groups including the FP&A, Tax, Finance Operations, Treasury, Investor Relations and Global Accounting teams to support the month-end close process and various other initiatives. This individual will establish themselves as a key business partner and provide technical and operational accounting and reporting guidance to the NA business units as well as cross-functional teams.

The role requires the ability to work in a complex and diverse, international and multi-currency environment and within a matrix management structure. The role is based in Foster City, CA, and reports to the Global Controller & Chief Accounting Officer. Some travel within the NA region and to other Visa offices will be required.

• Ensure financial statements and reports, including (i) U.S. GAAP results for Visa Inc. consolidation and management reporting purposes, and (ii) regulatory reports, for the NA geographies are produced accurately and on a timely basis.
• Provide input to quarterly SEC footnote and other disclosure schedules to support Visa Inc’s quarterly and annual SEC filings.
• Provide oversight and execution of corporate accounting for global technology, marketing, and other corporate functions.
• Ensure that strong financial controls over financial accounting and reporting are in place and executed in the NA geographies.
• Ensure that Visa Inc. accounting policies and procedures are well understood and complied with in the NA geographies.
• Oversee the preparation of monthly balance sheet and income statement analytics and other procedures as part of the month-end close to ensure transactions have been properly captured.  Review balance sheet account reconciliations to ensure proper SOX and internal controls are executed appropriately.
• Partner and coordinate with global peers and finance leaders to constantly enhance and improve our key processes, systems, and tools.  System and process enhancement is critical to drive the efficiency needed to manage rapidly expanding business activity.  Controllership continues to leverage best practices and modern tools to automate our work.
• Partner with Tax to monitor legal entity transaction flows and ensure timely settlement of intercompany balances. Ensure timely reconciliation of intercompany and tax-related accounts.
• Provide subject matter expertise on U.S. GAAP accounting and control guidance to the NA Finance and business teams.
• Work with the global accounting policy team to ensure compliance with technical and operational financial policies.  Implement new financial accounting policies and procedures within the NA geographies.
• Manage and resolve