Sr. Finance Manager, FP&A Transformation and Strategic Initiatives

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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa’s FP&A Transformation and Strategic Initiatives (TSI) team acts as a catalyst to motivate change and transformation in the organization, helping Visa to achieve its business goals. The team focuses on removing barriers, enabling employees, and solving sophisticated and strategic problems across the FP&A organization. Senior Manager, TSI will support initiatives to improve FP&A processes, increase clarity and alignment, and develop enterprise agility. An ability to think critically, plan, implement & communicate effectively while collaborating across teams and time zones will be key to success in this role.

Essential Functions:

• Support end-to-end, cross-functional, transformative projects including re-design of FP&A processes, development of internal capital allocation framework, rolling forecast process, etc.
• Develop short-term and long-term solutions to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability
• Bring a consultative mentality and approach to develop root cause and impact analysis
• Develop and drive execution of key performance metrics to measure the impact of implemented process changes
• Drive faster adoption of system solutions by partnering with the Financial Systems and FP&A teams

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are encouraged 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:
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
• At least 8 years of professional experience with 5-7 years of relevant experience in a well-disciplined Finance team and organization where processes are optimized and are integral to the management of the business
• MBA strongly preferred
• Investment banking and management consulting strongly preferred
• Ability to manage, develop, and mentor an impactful team
• Experience leading a Financial Planning & Analysis team with a detailed understanding of financial accounting and management reporting
• Proactive, strategic problem solver
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Outstanding problem solving skills with the highly developed ability to present information effectively to executive management
• Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
• Excellent interpersonal and people leadership skills
• Ability to work optimally with other functional areas and understand the operational and cultural issues relevant to achieving outstanding results
• Customer focused with tenacity to resolve issues and conflicts
• High energy and passion required to partner with multiple collaborators
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, both verbally and written
• Well-developed strategic, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• An out-of-the-box problem solver who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to use data to answer business problems
• Ability to coordinate and lead multiple data projects with diverse cross-functional partners
• Thrives in an environment that is fast-paced, constantly evolving, and relationship oriented

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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