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 - Financial Analysis Visa Direct role will be responsible for supporting Visa Direct leadership in delivering business objectives, providing analytical & financial insights, driving forecast & management reporting processes and standardization for Visa Direct regionally.

The ideal candidate will have strong strategic, technical, analytical and collaboration skills combined with meaningful FP&A experience and the ability to work across a matrix business organizational structure. This role will have exposure with key Global and Regional Visa Direct leadership teams and their respective Finance Partners.

• Lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting, multi-year strategic outlook and management reporting regionally
• Identify financial trends, insights and defining critical decisions to ensure the effective strategic management of the business and delivery of Visa Direct financial performance
• Perform robust financial analysis and be able to succinctly outline and present key drivers, themes and key risks while applying business and financial acumen to explain underlying drivers of results across several scenarios
• Actively maintain current tools/models and introduce new tools/models/processes to improve analysis used for executive financial deliverables
• Collaborate in the storyboarding of analytical output and production of communication materials for related presentations
• Identify risk and opportunities (plus mitigating actions) to ensure delivery on targets
• Provide ad hoc business analysis and support the ongoing management of key initiatives and investments such as market opportunity sizing, pricing opportunity, etc.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business and provide analysis, reports, and presentations and to ensure efficient information and decision-making flows
• Active participant and teammate to Global, Regional and country counterparts in promoting best practices and collaboration

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in finance, engineering, accounting, economics, or related quantitative field 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:

•  12 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in finance, engineering, accounting, economics, or related quantitative field, MBA a plus or 8 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 5 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Strong business acumen and multi-functional business experience a plus
• Demonstrated program leadership capabilities to drive key financial processes
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, ability to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
• Advanced application of pivot tables, macros and formulas
• Solution-oriented and great problem solver, ability to strike balance between compliance / governance requirements and achieving business outcomes
• Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverables

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.