Senior Financial Analyst, Finance Transformation

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Job description

Job Description

We established the Finance Velocity Office to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function. This newly created function will shape our transformation strategy, improve our business operations and enhance the impact we make as a function. Why velocity? Velocity is about both speed and strategy, focused on accelerating in a given direction. We will hone our approach, think big and decide quickly, living our Leadership Principles. This newly dedicated team will help us drive global consistency and operate as one team to:

Build a foundation that supports the growth and complexity of our business and improves the day-to-day interactions of our Finance teams.

Modernize our processes to enable better, faster decision making and drive more timely insights for our clients and business partners.

Implement technology to evolve how we work together to achieve meaningful, sustainable change and enable our long-term growth agenda.

Ensure a clear and measurable set of KPIs against our Finance OKRs and Scorecard to track, report and recognize key milestones and impact statements for our work product.

As a Senior Financial Analyst you will serve as a strategic finance partner to the Finance Velocity Office Program. This role requires interpersonal skills to cultivate partnerships across functions, regions, and teams, to drive thought leadership, and successfully enact detailed financial analysis, business case development and performance tracking. This role presents results and provides insights and analysis to program leaders and executives. The ideal candidate has a background in financial analysis, preferably with a public company, and proven results collaborating with team members and supported functions.

Essential Functions:

Supports the coordination, organization, and execution of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Examples of activities include traditional budgeting and forecasting, month-end close, enhanced financial / business reporting, business case development, pricing analysis, P&L generation, and business planning support.

Supports business case development for key initiatives, ad hoc requests, and special projects.

Establishes and maintains relationships with a broad base of key stakeholders (i.e., executives and staff) in the business and serves as a key point of contact for finance issues.

Acquires and maintains a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities, and issues of the business.

Applies overall analytical skills and experience to become a highly valued business partner.

Identifies and implements changes that improve efficiency and effectiveness of operational decision making.

Learn and understand Visa's financial reporting systems: run data queries, build financial architecture, and support finance technology initiatives.

Builds near and long-term views for growth that align with business strategy and data.

Interpret and present key findings to senior leadership

Enable management by providing timely, accurate information

Understand business drivers and recommend measures to further improve results

Establish efficient processes for quarterly and monthly performance reporting

Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments; return-on-investment discipline

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.

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