Senior Director, Corporate Analysis

Visa•San Francisco, CA

1d•$218,100 - $381,800•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa’s Strategic Finance team seeks a Senior Director with a strong quantitative and analytical background to provide financial and business analysis to the President, CFO, CEO, and other senior leaders. This highly visible Corporate-level role analyzes complex, ambiguous, and rapidly evolving business and financial questions in a data-rich environment. The position is hybrid and based in Visa’s San Francisco, California office; office attendance expectations will be aligned with the hiring manager.

Requirements

Basic qualification: 12 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree; 10 years with an advanced degree (e.g., master’s, MBA, JD, or MD); or at least 5 years with a PhD.
10–20 years of relevant financial analysis experience, including 5 or more years in management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, or highly analytical roles in data-intensive industries.
Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
Expertise in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Strong business acumen and commercial intuition.
Outstanding problem-solving, analytical, and quantitative skills, including the ability to resolve difficult business problems through well-structured analyses.
Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams.
Ability to build effective relationships and communicate across functions and management levels.
Expertise in modeling techniques and managing large data sets, with attention to detail, accuracy, and quality.
Strong bias for action and ability to identify and resolve issues proactively, work effectively with a diverse team, and produce time-sensitive deliverables.
Enthusiastic work ethic, passion for learning, professional curiosity, and ability to solve problems independently while seeking appropriate input.
Strong leadership skills and ability to generate support and momentum among functional peers.
Ability to travel 5–10% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Preferred qualification: 15 or more years of experience with a bachelor’s degree, 12 years with an advanced degree, or 9 or more years with a PhD.
MBA and/or CFA.
Understanding of the payments industry and Visa’s business.
Global or multinational business experience gained on the ground.

Responsibilities

Lead quantitative analysis of Visa’s business drivers, providing proactive insights that shape internal and external communications about performance and support decision-making.
Assess macro and micro trends affecting Visa’s business model and develop analytics to identify their impacts on business drivers and financial results.
Communicate the implications of analyses to support Visa’s strategy and operations, including quarterly earnings calls and investor conversations.
Design executive-level presentations and prepare the President’s presentations for internal and external audiences, including the Board of Directors.
Develop approaches to evaluate competitors’ financial performance and provide executive leadership with a fact-based understanding of the competitive landscape.
Lead and manage a small team.
Identify opportunities to improve, streamline, and automate the team’s work, and contribute to developing new processes and tools.
Build knowledge of Visa’s business through ongoing communication with senior finance and business leaders.