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Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?

You’ll fit right in.

Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

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Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

If you think you could support Visa as a Senior Finance Manager - Client Incentives Markets, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

The Southern Europe Finance Team for Continental Europe provides financial planning, analysis and decision support to Italy, Spain and Portugal. We are the liaison point for finance activities and insights relating to these areas.

FY 2021 will be a critical and exciting time to join the team, as Southern Europe implements its strategy to grow the business, increase cash penetration and generate and sustain new payment flows, while withstanding the shocks of Covid. 

The role would be responsible to ensure, together with the cluster deal lead, that Account Executives prepare robust investment proposals/ pricing packages to be offered by Visa Europe small and large banks in Italy and Portugal. The role holder will need to engage directly with the client to clarify the clients’ requirements and constantly engage with sales teams to provide best in class offers. The role will need to communicate complex client requirements together with portfolio analysis and summary findings to relevant stakeholders in the Region and the HQ.

In addition, this role will be part of the deal excellence team for the cluster and will need to develop deal process improvements and maintain local governance process ensuring that client facing teams adhere to Client Incentive Operating Standards.

Moreover, the role holder will need to work with the Legal team in understanding key regulatory and contractual terms that must be adhered to in determining the acceptability of deals.

Finally, this role will need to develop and maintains Accountable for building / forecasting CI budgets and commenting variances to budget/PY in the P/L and for CIA’s. This role is will also be responsible for the analysis and forecasting of over $15m of annual investments in Italy and for providing financial support and steer to help shape the strategy of the market, and may be involved in ad-hoc M&A transactions if required.

This is a hands-on role requires strong commercial acumen with the desire and ability to challenge the status quo to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and performance of the function.
The role holder will be a member of the Finance Team for the SE cluster.   
 

Thinking about careers differently...

At Visa, we are passionate to offer our employees compelling career growth opportunities. As such, even if you do not have experience of this function there could be skills or experiences, which would transfer well. For this role, the key skills required are:

• Fluency in English and Italian. Spanish and Portuguese are a plus.
• Business Partnering experience with progressively increasing responsibilities.  Ability to build and cultivate effective relationships with senior executives and stakeholders within the business and the Finance function at a regional and global level
• Experience on deal structuring and modelling.
• Strong commercial focus with a proven record of analysing business performance, identifying trends and issues, and challenges the norm
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigour, and the ability to interpret trends, identify issues and recommend actions
• Data analytics experience and application of data tools (R, Python, SQL) to large data sets desirable
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a "peer" with business leaders in regional functions
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
• Proven self-starter
• Experience of finance systems and advanced user of Microsoft Office programmes desirable
• MBA / Post graduate degree from top tier academic institution desirable
• Broad understanding of the payment landscape and VISA products and solutions are a plus

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.