Senior Finance Director - Innovation and Digital Partnership

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

Visa is looking for a strategic finance leader to join our Global Products Finance team.  This Senior Director will collaborate with a key members of Visa’s executive leadership team to develop financial strategies and drive analytics to enable business decision making.  They will drive the long-term planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes for the businesses they support including Real Time Payments, Tokenization, Secure Remote Commerce, Global Network Processing, ATM and other key platforms.  In addition, they will provide detailed monthly reports and analysis on the performance of the businesses.  The position involves driving important insights with senior finance leaders and executive management and require strong influence management skills.  The Senior Director Global Products Finance will mentor and manage the team to provide strong business partnership.  The ideal candidate will have a deep background in financial and general business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience managing teams and collaborating with various functions.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Advice and Partnership:

• Partner with head of business to develop long term financial plans
• Develop and present strategic insights about the business
• Align functional goals and strategies to broader global initiatives
• Lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting
• Become a trusted business partner to all business units, executive management and sales teams

Financial Management:

• Lead preparation of the annual business plan and analysis across a globally matrixed organization
• Interpret and present key findings for senior leadership audience
• Enable management by providing timely, accurate information
• Understand business drivers and recommend measures to further improve results and drive improvements to provide more insights
• Establish efficient processes for monthly and quarterly performance reporting for optimal result

Project Management:

• Spearhead ad-hoc projects to improve the overall performance of the team and organization(s)
• Decision support to senior finance leadership on investment or project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments
• Provide thought leadership and guidance over core processes building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables
• Partner with Financial Systems team to develop and execute roadmap to improve and automate revenue and driver analysis

Business Engagement:

• Integration of finance into the business, attend team meetings or understanding of the business
• Tailored, effective presentations, analysis and dialogue with each business partner
• Timely, meaningful views on their business
• Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments and return-on-investment discipline
• Robust toolkit to help manage the business and enable management decision making

People Management:

• Attract, recruit and train top talent into the Finance organization
• Mentor and manage a team of high performing finance resources by helping to create a center of excellence and instilling best practices across finance
• Influence, motivate and collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
•12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
•15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
•Highly analytical background and extensive experience with financial and operating systems strongly preferred
•Experience leading a Financial Planning & Analysis (or similar) team with a thorough understanding of financial accounting and management reporting
•Proactive, strategic thinker with strong project management skills
•Superior problem solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with executive management
•Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
•Excellent interpersonal and people management skills
•Ability to work effectively with other functional areas and understand the operational and cultural issues relevant to achieving superior results
•Client focused with tenacity to resolve issues and conflicts
•High energy and enthusiasm required to partner with multiple stakeholders
•Able to work in a matrix reporting environment

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 181,800.00 to 250,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. 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.