Senior Finance Manager - Visa Direct FP&A Team

Visa•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a highly strategic and analytical Senior Finance Manager for the North America (NA) Visa Direct FP&A Team. The candidate will be responsible to lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting, multi-year strategic outlook, and management reporting. This role will be pivotal in analyzing monthly and quarterly financial results, identifying and interpreting key variances, trends, and insights, and presenting these findings to senior leadership and executive management. Over the past years NA Visa Direct FP&A function has transformed from being focused on actualizing and maintaining database drivers to offering insightful guidance for decision making at a more detailed level, across programs and use cases. The new role aligns with strategic initiatives, particularly in driving long-term growth through diversification of use cases and broadening cross-border. The expanding business has also modified program-based reporting, all cross-border programs, and the launch and acceleration of new programs. The role involves leading forecast and supporting beyond just the product office to include Account Managers, Sales, Digital Partnerships and more, considering the continuous growth of the business partners supporting NA Visa Direct. Responsibility areas cover all the aspects of financial planning, analysis and reporting, driving and maintaining high standard of financial discipline, business decision support and accountability within the designated function. The role will report to Visa Direct FP&A Head with the expectation to deliver greater accuracy in drivers management and meet the escalating demand for efficiency and precision in the expansion of a pillar within the Money Movement business.

Requirements

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
7+ years of combined Finance and Accounting experience, or at least 5 years of with an Advanced Degree, prior experience in FP&A preferred
Experience in budgeting, forecasting, business performance analytics
Foundational understanding of multi-party economic model (issuers, acquirers, processors, interchange, merchants, cardholders, etc.)
Ability to build impactful relationships and effectively communicate with management to influence results, and able to work within a dual-reporting matrix structure
Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a peer with business leaders in global and regional function
Operates with minimal supervision and able to make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently using strong business judgement
Team oriented, collaborative, detail oriented, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, oral and writing capabilities
Advanced proficiency in financial modelling (Excel) and presentation building (PowerPoint)

Nice To Haves

9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
Experience with Hyperion, Tableau, Power BI is a plus

Responsibilities

Lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting, multi-year strategic outlook and management reporting
Analyze monthly and quarterly results, identify and interpret key variances, trends, and insights, present key findings to senior leadership and executive management audience
Being responsible for driver modeling to incorporate seasonality (including ATS), streamlining reporting, and supporting global project to update billing to enable client-level revenue reporting
Lead the creation of self-served client-based dashboards for business partners
Integrate finance into business operations by attending team meetings and gaining a thorough understanding of the business to provide significant insights and drive strategic decisions
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and integrate business plans, operating structures and strategies for NA MMS
Develop and present strategic insights about the business using use cases to effectively drive MMS growth and inform strategic decisions
Identify and drive opportunities for continuous operational improvements, implementing necessary changes to streamline efforts.
Become a valued business partner to MMS stakeholders and executive management to ensure cohesive and strategic collaboration for achieving business objectives.