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Position Summary

The Senior Director, Corporate FP&A will be responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis for Visa Inc. Operating Expense, consolidating Visa Inc. P&L, liaising with operations support functions, and providing broad decision support analytics to assist business leaders.

This role will be responsible for developing and driving a proactive, collaborative partnership between Corporate FP&A and regional and functional FP&A teams, understanding FP&A team needs, driving constructive and engaging conversations, monitoring stakeholder feedback, and identifying trends and opportunities to advance Visa’s overall business and financial strategy.

This is a highly visible role that includes frequent interaction with senior management and other key internal stakeholders. The Senior Director, Corporate FP&A will have significant experience in leading global financial services while establishing strong business and financial planning processes, budgeting, strategic frameworks, manage reporting and driving critical financial decisions. The successful candidate will have the ability to effectively interact and influence across a matrix business organizational structure and closely liaison with finance and business teams.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the global budgeting and forecasting process, including quantitative analysis around Visa’s key expense drivers
  • Assess Visa specific business drivers and their corresponding impact on Visa financials
  • Deliver forecast analytics and insights that result in a corporate perspective of the forecast/budget
  • Manage the budget and forecast calendar, coordinating with key stakeholders
  • Actively seek opportunities to improve tools and processes
• Conduct in depth financial analysis in support of quarterly Board of Directors meeting and company earnings
  • Prepare succinct and clear executive presentations that simplify complex topics, often with time sensitive deliverables
  • Become an expert on Visa’s expense drivers, tools, and processes
  • Work closely with investor relations and external reporting in preparation for earnings
• Develop partnership with stakeholders throughout organization
• Drive cross-functional alignment on finance processes and planning
• Conduct weekly meetings with global FP&A counterparts
• Lead and coordinate ad hoc requests from company leadership

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree; 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:

Financial Leadership

• Ability to handle projects with multiple work streams, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of business problems
• Ability to structure, manage, and coordinate complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders
• Drives an efficient, effective and comprehensive process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives
• Drives profitable growth by improving visibility, forecasting, consolidation and analysis of results and key metrics while advising senior management on insights and recommended actions
• Creates effective performance metrics to drive accountability and ownership within the FP&A teams and business units
• Ensures the highest level of effectiveness and continued skill development of the Finance team
• Sets performance metrics that can be regularly tracked to measure progress

Professional

• MBA or relevant graduate degree 
• Minimum 10-15 years of experience within the Finance function or with relevant experience in strategy/management consulting, investment banking, or corporate finance
• Global or multi-national business experience strongly preferred
• Strong customer focus combined with an in-depth understanding of the trends affecting the financial services, payments and e-commerce world
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor as well as experience resolving complex business problems with well-structured analytics
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic, rapidly changing business environment
• Advanced level of Excel and PowerPoint required

Business Leadership

• Strong executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior executives and finance partners
• Superior strategic thought leadership
• Experience presenting complex materials in a succinct manner to senior executives to drive effective decision making
• Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across a breadth of stakeholders

Team Leadership

• 6+ years’ experience in leading and managing a world class team
• Commitment to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the finance function
• Ability to provide mentorship and be an effective coach and have challenging employee conversations when necessary
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to articulate and drive a team towards a strategic vision
• Demonstrated ability to be decisive and action-oriented regarding decisions affecting the team
• Committed to developing a team, including key talent, and build a strong succession pipeline for the future

Work Hours:

• Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours

Travel Requirements:

• This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 0% 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, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds

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.