Financial Analyst

Visa • Foster City, CA

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
Visa’s Value-Added Services division (VAS) is one of the three core revenue growth drivers for the company. VAS enable Visa’s clients to deliver secure, reliable and convenient payments experiences for their customers.
As one of the 5 business units within VAS, Risk and Identity Solutions (RaIS) helps prevent fraud across the entire payment journey, across all payment endpoints and networks—without stopping the flow of business. Built upon decades of experience and expertise, our solutions have the scale and depth to help safeguard billions of daily transactions.
We are seeking a Financial Analyst to join the Risk and Identity Solutions team. This role requires interpersonal skills to cultivate partnerships across functions, regions, and teams, to successfully enact all planning, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end reporting processes. This role presents results and provides insights and analysis to business partners and executives. The ideal candidate has a background in financial analysis, preferably with a public company, and proven results collaborating with team members and supported functions.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Requirements

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Nice To Haves

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Responsibilities

• Supports the coordination, organization, and execution of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Examples of activities include traditional budgeting and forecasting, month-end close, enhanced financial / business reporting, business case development, pricing analysis, P&L generation, and business planning support
• Supports business case development for key initiatives, ad hoc requests, and special projects
• Establishes and maintains relationships with a broad base of key stakeholders in the business and serves as a key point of contact for finance issues
• Acquires and maintains a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities, and issues of the business
• Applies overall analytical skills and experience to become a highly valued business partner
• Identifies and implements changes that improve efficiency and effectiveness of operational decision making
• Learn and understand Visa’s financial reporting systems: run data queries, build financial architecture, and support finance technology initiatives
• Builds near and long-term views for growth that align with business strategy and data

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level