Finance Director - Corporate Financial Planning & 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.

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Job Description

The Director is responsible for leading the financial planning processes and conducting analytics on the entire P&L, collaborating closely with Regional and Functional FP&A teams alongside operations support functions that include Treasury, Tax, Investor Relations, External Reporting, Controllership and Systems teams in providing broad decision support analytics to assist business leaders.

This role will be responsible for developing and driving a proactive, collaborative partnership between Corporate Finance and FP&A teams across the globe to identify trends and opportunities to advance Visa’s overall business and financial strategy.

This is a highly visible role that includes frequent interaction with senior management and other key internal stakeholders. This role will be ideal for candidates with extensive experience in FP&A teams and/or prior experience in Corporate Finance roles. A successful track record of establishing strong business and financial planning processes, strategic frameworks, management reporting and driving critical financial decisions is highly desirable. The successful candidate will have the ability to effectively interact and influence across a matrix business organizational structure and closely liaise with other finance and operations support teams.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the global budgeting and forecasting process, including budget and forecast cadence and coordination with key stakeholders and actively seek opportunities to improve tools and processes
• Conduct in depth financial analysis in support of quarterly Board of Directors meeting and company earnings
• Prepare succinct and clear executive presentations that simplify complex topics, often with time sensitive deliverables
• Become an expert on Visa’s business model and financial drivers
• Work closely with investor relations and external reporting in preparation for earnings
• Develop partnership with stakeholders throughout organization
• Drive cross-functional alignment on finance processes, planning and finance calendar
• Conduct weekly meetings with global FP&A counterparts
• Lead and coordinate ad hoc requests from company leadership

Financial Leadership

• Handle projects with multiple work streams, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of business problems
• Structure, manage, and coordinate complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders
• Drive an efficient, effective, and comprehensive process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives
• Drive profitable growth by improving visibility, forecasting, consolidation and analysis of results and key metrics while advising senior management on insights and recommended actions
• Create effective performance metrics to drive accountability and ownership within the FP&A teams and business units
• Ensure the highest level of effectiveness and continued skill development of the Finance team
• Set performance metrics that can be regularly tracked to measure progress

Business Leadership

• Clearly communicate compelling messages to senior executives and finance partners
• Exercise superior strategic thought leadership
• Presenting complex materials in a succinct manner to senior executives to drive effective decision making
• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives across a breadth of stakeholders

Team Leadership

• Provide mentorship and be an effective coach and have challenging employee conversations when necessary
• Drive team towards a strategic vision and commit to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the finance function
• Committed to developing a team, including key talent, and build a strong succession pipeline for the future

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. 

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