Director, Revenue Planning, Reporting & Analytics - Asia Pacific

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

Team Summary

The Asia Pacific Revenue Planning, Reporting & Analytics team is part of the Market Support Center Core Financial Planning & Analysis team, responsible for drivers and revenue planning, forecasting, budgeting, month-end reporting and providing analytics and insights to understand, review, prioritise and manage revenues across geographies in Asia Pacific.

The position is based in Singapore and will be reporting directly to the Vice President, AP Revenue Planning & Analytics.

What a Director, Revenue Planning, Reporting & Analytics does at Visa:

• Lead the end-to-end efforts of budgeting, forecasting and reporting of Revenue for AP geographies to ensure clear alignment with constraints, consistent quality in analyzing risks/opportunities and achievement of deadlines.
• Establish and facilitate the process of challenging country teams in terms of accuracy of forecasts and provide feedback to improve future forecasts.
• Provide in-depth analytical insight to driver trends, present key risk/opportunity and provide management with thoughtful, realistic point of view to revenues’ forecast through independent review
• Lead the coordination, organization and execution of quantitative and qualitative analyses for drivers and revenues at detailed country, product and corridor level for understanding of variances and support management decision making with rigorous, fact-based recommendations build on syndication with stakeholders across the organization
• Support the storyboarding of analytical output and production of materials for related business reviews and presentations
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (e.g. planning COE, corporate, country finance, business executives, Cross Border team) to develop best practices and serves as subject matter-expert (SME) for finance revenue planning-related matters.
• Drive and champion projects and refinements including system enhancements to drive continuing efficiency and improvements to optimize the effort/resources in forecast/ budget process and revenue performance tracking
• Provide people leadership for the team by promoting Visa Leadership principles and continuously improve the team’s engagement and leadership index

Why this is important to Visa

The Director is responsible for leading the driver and revenue planning, budgeting, forecasting and month end reporting processes for geographies in Asia Pacific as well as financial analysis to support business decisions and deliver performance insights for the region.

The candidate should be a self-starter leader with an analytical and inquisitive mind and is driven to communicate business performance to senior leadership in an efficient and effective manner.  He/She will collaborate with internal partners from finance and systems to produce in-depth analysis of revenue trends and movements. He/she will drive revenue forecast excellence & analytic improvements for the region.

Qualifications

What you will need:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, engineering, accounting, mathematics, economics, statistics or related quantitative field. MBA is a plus.
• 12 years of financial analysis work experience, with progressively increasing responsibility. Payment experience and leadership role a plus.
• Strong leadership skills to influence, generate support and momentum among stakeholders and peers across matrix organization structure
• A resourceful self-starter with strong bias for action and ability to identify and resolve issues with well-solicited input, prioritize and multi-task with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate outstanding excel, analytical and quantitative skills, ability to succinctly present data and inform decision making with well-structured analyses
• Possess strong interpersonal, organizational, communication skills and the ability to deliver time sensitive results
• Attention to detail and accuracy are critical

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.