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The Finance Manager will be responsible for performing Continuous Controls Monitoring across a range of Visa policies and procedures. The Finance Manager will be responsible for performing detailed reviews of transactions, data anomalies, key risk indicator reviews for the assigned markets at pre-established frequency, assessing the root cause of potential exceptions and supporting remediation efforts for exceptions identified.

Basic Qualifications:

4 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) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• 7-10 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or
• 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA) or 3 years of experience with a PhD.
• Professional certification (CPA, CIA, CISA).
• Strong controls, compliance and/ or auditing background with demonstrated understanding of corporate’s policies and procedures.
• Extensive data analysis skills and an aptitude for understanding, interpretation and investigation.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Prior experience using Power BI or working with other BI tools.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; must be motivated, hard-working and team oriented.
• Strong and effective communicator, both written and verbal.
• Track record in issues prioritization, effective conflict resolution and execution.
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic and flexible.
• Ability to adapt quickly in handling multiple / evolving tasks and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to produce high quality and/or final work product under strict deadlines.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and operate autonomously.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment; demonstration of entrepreneurial spirit.
• Be willing to travel (10%).
• Flexibility to work across multiple time zones.

Spanish and/or Portuguese are preferred.

Essential function:

• Execute upon the vision, mission, strategies and annual goals for the Continuous Controls Monitoring function in alignment with the Company's goals.
• Aggregate and/or analyze data meaningfully to identify unusual trends, anomalies and non-compliant transactions with the various Company policies and procedures.
• Undertake testing for the country/market/region of responsibility in line with the processes established by the CCM function.
• Serve as local subject matter expert on the design and testing of internal controls over higher risk processes:
– Complete ongoing risk monitoring and assessment, and play a key role in the development of testing strategies and assessment of the control environment across the region
– Collaborate with the other Internal Control teams to feedback trends, themes and effectiveness of test approach, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the process.
– Provide feedback on improvements to existing data queries and recommend new queries to enhance the process and make it more efficient.
– Suggest improvements to the testing framework to address the specific needs and risks at an individual country/market level.
– Drive efficiencies by seeking opportunities for automation.
• Timely escalate potential high-risk exceptions for timely action, reporting and resolution.
• Work closely and effectively with Regional, Country Management and Functional leadership (e.g., Controllership, Sourcing, Compliance, Risk Management, Legal, etc.) to identify areas of risk, implement short term and long solutions to address exceptions noted and improve processes to minimize risk.
• Participate in local Controls Committee meetings for the Region/Market/Country as CCM function representative, present and report findings.
• Act as a driver of continuous improvement of the control environment. Use direct experience, external benchmarking and knowledge of regulatory expectations to support the management’s stated goal of developing a strong industry leading controls function.

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 EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.