Sr Director, Global Product and Strategy Finance

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

Essential Functions:

Strategic Advice and Partnership:

• Partner with business leaders to develop long term financial plans

• Lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting

• Develop and present strategic insights about the business leveraging financial analysis

• Align on goals and strategies to broader global initiatives and become a trusted business partner

• Standardize Product / Technology investment and M&A Integration Budget management processes

Financial Management:

• Establish financial measures, communicate, and drive accountability with business and finance team to achieve financial objectives

• Enable management by providing timely, accurate information - interpret and present key findings for senior leadership

• Understand business drivers and recommend actions to further improve results and advance analytical insights

• Lead annual business plan, quarterly forecasts and analysis across a globally matrixed organization

Project Management:

• Spearhead ad-hoc projects to improve the overall performance of the team and organization(s)

• Decision support to senior finance leadership on investment / project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments

• Provide thought leadership and guidance over core processes, building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables

• Manage and continuously improve finance processes and analysis, including monthly and quarterly performance reporting, and quarterly and annual forecasts/budget

• Partner with Finance and Financial Systems teams to simplify revenue reporting and automate financial reporting

Business Engagement:

• Integration of finance as a key business partner - understand and support business initiatives

• Tailored, effective presentations, analysis, and engagement with business partners

• Timely, meaningful perspectives on the business

• Prioritization on hiring and spend to optimize budget, investments and return-on-investment discipline

• Robust toolkit to help manage the business and enable management decision making

People Management:

• Attract, recruit, and grow top talent in the Finance organization

• Mentor and manage a team of high performing finance members by helping to create a center of excellence and instilling best practices across finance

• Influence, motivate and collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders

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:
•12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10
years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA
/JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
•15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of
experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with
9+ years of experience
•Experience leading a Financial Planning & Analysis (or similar) team with a
thorough understanding of financial accounting and management reporting,
and achieving results
•Highly analytical background and extensive experience with financial and
operating systems strongly preferred
•Proactive, strategic thinker with strong project management skills
•Superior problem-solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with
executive management
•Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
•Excellent interpersonal and people management skills
•Ability to work effectively with other functional areas and understand the
operational and cultural issues rele