Senior Manager, Financial Analysis

Visa • Foster City, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is looking for a strategic and results-oriented Senior Finance Manager to join our Technology Finance team supporting the Infrastructure and Operations organization. This role provides financial leadership, decision support, and analytical insight across technology and innovation portfolios, partnering closely with Technology, Product, and Finance leaders to ensure effective cost discipline and delivery of strategic technology priorities. The ideal candidate will bring a strong foundation in financial and business analysis and demonstrated experience collaborating across complex, cross‑functional organizations to support data‑driven decision-making.

Requirements

• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's 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

Nice To Haves

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's 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
• Proven experience in advanced financial modeling (Microsoft Excel).
• Strong proficiency in data visualization tools such as Power BI and/or Tableau. Ability to build scalable, user-friendly dashboards.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills, with demonstrated ability to structure and interpret financial data and deliver actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and present complex ideas clearly to senior leadership.
• Operates independently with sound business judgment, especially in ambiguous environments.
• Collaborative and team-oriented, with the ability to build credibility across global and regional functions.
• Prior experience in FP&A, investment banking, consulting, or corporate strategy.
• Strategic thinker with deep business acumen and understanding of the payments industry.
• Experience with complex financial systems (e.g., Hyperion, GARP, GEAR).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Finance Business Partner to Technology Operations and Infrastructure leadership, providing strategic financial insight, constructive challenge, and decision support across Cloud transformation, GenAI, M&A integrations, and Localization programs.
• Partner closely with Senior leaders to evaluate large‑scale infrastructure to cloud investment initiatives, develop robust business cases, reporting, and assess financial impact, ROI, risk, and long-term value creation.
• Lead financial analysis and modeling for complex, multi‑year programs, including cloud migration and consumption economics and acquisition integration costs, to inform prioritization, trade‑off decisions, and execution strategy.
• Lead the coordination and execution of financial planning processes, including budgeting, forecasting, long-term growth modeling, and business case development.
• Establish efficient processes for monthly and quarterly performance reporting.
• Promote disciplined budget management and investment optimization.
• Understand business levers and recommend measures to improve financial results and business margins, while assessing financial risks and opportunities, and evaluating options to optimize return on investments.
• Own global finance planning cycles, spanning budgets, quarterly outlooks, and rolling forecasts, across cloud and M&A portfolios to ensure disciplined investment management and alignment to enterprise technology strategy.
• Manage and forecast integrated M&A budgets, ensuring visibility, financial discipline, and alignment to integration milestones.
• Developing financial models to assess spend, benefits, and business impact
• Tracking actual spend versus plan and reporting variances
• Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis to support strategic initiatives, transformation efforts, and investment decisions.
• Own financial oversight of cloud costs including:
• Managing and reporting cloud spend through dashboards
• Partnering with technology teams to drive costs transparency and optimization
• Building robust cloud modernization models for on prem vs cloud business cases
• Develop executive-ready materials on performance, investment outlooks, and major business cases, including clear narratives, data driven insights, and scenario-based analyses
• Translate complex technology and financial results, spanning capital investments, operating spend, cloud economics, and integration costs, into concise, actionable insights that enable informed decision‑making by senior leadership
• Ensure the accuracy, transparency, and integrity of financial reporting and analysis, reinforcing strong financial governance, disciplined investment management, and trust with executive leadership.
• Identify and lead opportunities to streamline planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytical processes, improving efficiency, accuracy, scalability, and quality of financial insights across global infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Ensure strong financial governance and controls across organizational spend, including adherence to investment approval frameworks, capital and expense policies, cloud consumption guardrails, and internal control requirements.
• Partner with Technology leaders, process owners, and transformation teams to drive change management and adoption of new tools, systems, and operating models, enabling standardized, automated, and future‑ready ways of working across cloud platforms and M&A integrations.

Benefits

• Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees