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The North America Financial Planning & Analysis team serves as a business partner for the North America Group Executive and provides finance support for a variety of underlying Regional business functions. We are an agile, highly visible team that collaborates across all functions/product lines and plays a key role in providing financial planning, month-end reporting and decision support analytics to business leaders.

We are seeking a highly analytical and proactive finance professional to focus on US Service Fees and Total North America P&L consolidation.  This person will own US Service Fees forecasting and analytics, and be responsible for Total NA P&L consolidation and analytics.  This person will be the quarterback that brings together Total North America financials, working in close coordination and strong partnership with NA FP&A team, Canada Finance and Corporate team.  This is a highly visible and influential role that will work very closely with North America Finance Leadership, and directly influence both near-term and longer term strategic decisions through effective reporting and insightful analytics.  This position will be based in Foster City.

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for preparation and analysis of annual budget and monthly/quarterly forecasts and variances – for US Service Fees
• Responsible for Total NA P&L consolidation process, reporting and analytics for month-end , Outlook, Annual Budget and Strategic Plan
• Improve visibility, forecasting, consolidation and analysis of results and key metrics while advising NA Finance Leadership on insights and recommended actions
• Ability to structure, manage and coordinate projects and processes with multiple stakeholders
• Drive adoption of systems (e.g. TM1) to streamline NA P&L forecasting and reporting processes
• Answer ad-hoc requests from corporate and business on NA revenue and driver trends
• Build strong knowledge of Visa's business through constant communication with partners across Finance and Strategy
• Utilize business understanding to perform complex financial and statistical analysis that lead to business insights

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with a Masters/MBA/JD/MD

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, engineering, accounting, mathematics, economics, statistics or related quantitative field.
• 8-12 years of relevant financial analysis work experience; with 4-6 years in corporate finance, investment banking or management consulting
• MBA and/or CFA 
• Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong business acumen and commercial intuition required. Understanding of Visa’s business is preferred but not necessary
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills; ability to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
• Experience designing financials dashboards to focus managerial attention
• Ability to cultivate effective relationships and communicate effectively cross-functionally and with all levels of management
• Proven expertise in modeling techniques and managing large data sets
• Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
• Strong bias for action and ability to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverables
• Enthusiastic work ethic, passion for learning, and acute professional curiosity; able to solve problems with balance of independence and well-solicited input
• Strong leadership skills generating support and momentum among functional peers
• Global or multi-national business experience on-the-ground preferred

Work Hours:

• Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours

Travel Requirements:

• This position requires no travel

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, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds

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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.