Finance Manager

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

- Responsible for providing financial planning and analysis support to Visa’s LAC Region as a member of a Team focused on budgeting and forecasting Operational Expenses

-  Role has a special emphasis on Southern Cone region expense performance. This includes reviewing portfolio performance, forecasting variances to our initial plan, and understanding potential impacts to current expense budget.

- Proactively establish and maintain relationships with a broad base of key stakeholders to measure and capture the impact to expense budget.

- Build, improve and maintain operating and financial models considering South Cone market challenges

- Prepare comprehensive expense variance analysis on monthly, quarterly and annual basis, explaining the key drivers and storylines affecting outcomes.

-Manage cross functional & geography expense planning - Build and maintain relationships with cost center managers to ensure they are aware of budget forecasts timelines and data requirements, and understand the need to adhere to them.

- Able to synthesize trends and identify opportunities that improve expense allocation and enable senior management to meet their budget targets.

- Acquire and maintain a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities and issues within the LAC region and relate understanding to expense structure.

- Establish and maintain OPEX Power BI dashboards to guide and influence region senior leaders on investment decisions.

-  Liaise as the “single point of contact” for expense for Visa Southern Cone to other corporate Finance departments such as Global Corp Finance, Global Tax and Controllership, escalating and resolving local team requests and concerns that may require further support

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree
• English fluency is required

Preferred Qualifications

• 8-12 years of work experience and a Bachelors Degree or 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting, month-end close and process development
• Sound foundation in Finance and working knowledge of GAAP preferred
• Payments/Credit card industry experience preferred
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Office (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, and PowerBI)
• Experience with a complex financial system (e.g. Hyperion, TM1) is beneficial but not required

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.