Senior Finance Manager - Visa Direct

Visa•San Francisco, CA

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. Manager, Finance – Visa Direct will be responsible for supporting the leadership team and driving insights regarding Visa Direct investment strategies/plans based on company trends, business opportunities, and activity assessment. The position is responsible for planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes for Visa Direct globally and provides detailed investment monthly reports and analysis to management to enable business decision making. The position also ensures that requisitions, receiving and end-of-month processes are accurate and in compliance with established procurement procedures. The Sr. Manager works closely with other Finance and Business teams to ensure alignment and achieve synergy of opportunities and objectives. The ideal candidate will have strong 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 to key Global and Regional Visa Direct leadership teams and their respective Finance Partners. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

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
Analytical and quantitative skills, ability to resolve tough business problems with well structured analyses
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
Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment with changing priorities

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
Strong business acumen and multi functional business experience a plus
Demonstrated program leadership capabilities to drive key financial processes

Responsibilities

Serve as Financial Business Partner (FBP) for Visa Direct globally, responsible for budgeting/ forecasting coordination, prioritization and inputs related to investments (expenses and headcount)
Collaborate with global, regional, functional teams for budget/forecast, including priority recommendations on resource allocation as needed
Design, build and maintain various automated reporting models in Oracle EPM (Smartview) and leverage corporate dashboard reports (GEAR)
Ensure financial data accuracy, integrity, and consistency of information as well as organize documentation of results and data sources used
Support organizational changes and ensuring alignment across the organization
Build and analyze business cases as well as facilitate prioritization exercises, provide periodic variance analysis and executive commentary
Track investment execution and workforce planning by business unit to periodically report business plans changes
Advise and report on success criteria of planned activities based on established business objectives
Drive discussions and resolution of reporting issues by working with business partners globally, provide input regarding continuous improvements and best practices, and effectively integrate reporting processes throughout the organization
P&L Management including budget, forecasting planning and reporting for multiple internal teams
Support financial procurement procedures and responsibilities
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
Identify risk and opportunities (plus mitigating actions) to ensure delivery on targets
Active participant and teammate to Global, Regional and corporate counterparts in promoting best practices and collaboration.