Sr. Global Finance Manager

Visa•Foster City, CA

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Finance Organization is responsible for enabling Visa’s business strategy through disciplined financial planning, insightful analytics, and strong financial governance. We are seeking a strategically oriented Senior Finance Manager to serve as a key Finance Business Partner within the Global Finance function. This role provides financial leadership, decision support, and analytical insight across Finance sub-functions, and partners closely with Finance executives to ensure effective resource allocation, financial discipline, and delivery of strategic priorities. The ideal candidate will have a deep background in financial and general business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience collaborating with various internal departments and functions.

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
Strong experience in Financial Planning & Analysis within a complex organization.
9+ years of finance experience, including business partnering with senior leaders.
Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and financial reporting systems, Tableau or similar analytics tools preferred.
Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and modeling skills with attention to detail.
Strong executive presence and ability to communicate insights effectively and influence stakeholders without formal authority.
Experience working in a matrixed, global environment.
Ability to work effectively with other functional areas and understand the operational and cultural issues relevant to achieving superior results.
High energy, proactive mindset with strong commercial acumen and accountability.
Client focused with tenacity to resolve issues and conflicts with exceptional interpersonal and people management skills

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
Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and financial reporting systems, Tableau or similar analytics tools preferred.

Responsibilities

Act as a primary Finance Business Partner to the Finance function, providing insight, challenge, and guidance to support strategic and operational decision making.
Collaborate with Finance Leadership Team members to evaluate initiatives, develop business cases, and assess financial impact, ROI, and trade‑offs.
Support planning discussions, investment prioritization, and resource allocation decisions across the Finance organization.
Own global finance planning cycles including budgeting, quarterly outlooks, and rolling forecast across the consolidated consolidate finance sub-function budgets (Controllership, Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit, Procurement, etc).
Coordinate with Workforce Planner (WFP) to align headcount plans, compensation cycle, and headcount investments with budget and forecast.
Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses to support strategic initiatives and transformation efforts.
Collaborate with the Finance Velocity Office (FVO) to evaluate and prioritize Finance transformation investments, location strategy and org design, build business cases, track benefits realization and report payback vs plan.
Establish and track KPIs for the Finance function (e.g. days to close, forecast accuracy, process STP rates, audit findings, tax effective rate, sourcing savings), publish dashboards and OKRs.
Collaborate with the Center of Excellence (COE), which supports Visa’s FP&A teams, to prepare and present monthly and quarterly financial reviews, management reports, and executive‑ready materials for Finance Leadership Team.
Prepare CFO materials on finance performance, forecasts, and business cases, including presentations, emails, and special studies.
Translate complex financial results into clear, concise and actionable narratives for senior finance stakeholders.
Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses to support strategic initiatives and transformation efforts.
Ensure accuracy, transparency, and integrity of financial reporting and analyses.
Identify opportunities to streamline planning, reporting, and analytical processes to improve efficiency, accuracy and quality of outputs.
Support adherence to financial governance, spend policies, and internal controls across the Finance cost base.
Partner with process owners and transformation teams to support change management and adoption of new tools and ways of working.
Establish working norms and SLAs with Finance stakeholders, ensure responsive business partnering and proactive communication of risks & opportunities
Partner with FVO to lead change management for Finance Transformation initiatives, align cross-functional teams, manage communication and resolve resistance to new processes & tools
Promote collaboration across time zones and cultures, ensure inclusive team practices and effective knowledge sharing.
Model ethical leadership and compliance, reinforce internal controls and confidentiality standards with the planning and reporting processes.