Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

Working in a matrixed organization, reporting directly to Senior Director Product, Solutions and DPV and working closely with RPS, VAS, BPO and Finance teams, the role supports the RPS and VAS teams by providing financial management and leadership across revenue, expenses, business cases and investments.

Responsibility areas cover all the aspects of financial planning, analysis and reporting, driving and maintaining high standard of financial discipline, business decision support and accountability.

The role will constantly enhance existing processes and procedures as well as propose new ones. S/he will partner effectively to lead the development and delivery of the Budget, Forecast and Multi-Year Growth Plans driving efficiencies, monitoring resources utilization and supporting resources allocations.

Key areas of responsibility:

Revenue Management

• Own financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Coordinate inputs from the various, global, sub regions and functions for revenue and lead the review and challenge process.
• Focus on proactively communicating business implications observed from analysis, monitoring recent business trends to ensure forecast and results accuracy. Produce communication materials related to business and revenue performance for CEMEA management
• Contribute to materials for executive management review and approval with best clarity, accuracy, and timeliness of analysis (MBR, QBR’s, etc)
• Simplify complex issues and structure analysis to answer business questions and communicate business implications from financial analysis at all levels
• Understanding of periodical financial results and highlight risk and opportunities and provide risk mitigation plans as well as ways to capture the opportunities

Expense management:

• Proactive management of functional & geography expense planning. Financial leadership in forecast and budget process; Tracking and monthly performance, understanding of variances.
• Advisory and guidance to cost center managers so they are informed of their approved budgets & forecasts and their commitment to budget/forecast on a continuous basis. To build and maintain relationships with cost center managers to ensure they are aware of budget forecasts timelines and data requirements.
• Participation in continuous improvement activities to exceed customer expectations and promote a professional finance organization.

Critical Success Factors in the Role

Strong individual leadership and contribution:

• Ensures accurate, insightful, and timely completion for deliverables.
• Partners effectively with stakeholders (Product & VAS leads & other FBPs) and identifies/resolves issues and ensures non-recurrence
• Works effectively with diverse teams with strong communication, prioritizes successfully, and navigates ambiguity with limited supervision.

 Deep business knowledge:

• Curious mind-set and eagerness to learn
• Establishes networks and leverages resources to complete various workstreams
• Recognizes external/internal clients, looks to understand their needs, and communicates effectively
• Understands how Visa and various clients make money, the role of different functions, and the clients for the teams s/he is supporting

Resourceful technical competence:

• Understands and applies Finance Policies, Procedures and Processes, proactively seeks to understand business rationale
• Achieves high proficiency in using Visa systems and Microsoft Office for routine work, esp. advanced modelling techniques in MS Excel
• Understands how to source data and ensure it’s accuracy and relevance

Decision Making

• Reviews business planning assumptions and challenges internal teams on their submitted numbers, to continuously improve forecast accuracy
• Prioritizes tasks between Finance and Function with focus on business execution, while balancing the need to meet tight deadlines
• Identifies and suggests process changes to improve forecasting techniques, own productivity, or quality of work output, and eliminate recurring issues
• Exercises good judgment to escalate issues to CEMEA Sr. Director and Finance Leadership members, along with recommended solution to resolve
• Liaises and responds to queries from key stakeholders, whether functional leads, finance, or other teams, and offers recommendations
• Works independently, yet knows when to seek guidance/alignment on new or complex situations

Reporting Relationships and Interactions

• Role is based in the CEMEA Hub, Dubai office, reporting to CEMEA Sr. Director, Product Finance, based in the same office
• Main stakeholders are Finance teams, Product & VAS teams, and Strategy team, all based across CEMEA Region
• This individual is expected to interact effectively with various levels of Visa management and their regional staff 
• Strong interpersonal skills will be required to address on-going needs of a complex, matrix reporting structure
• Multicultural sensitivity and interpersonal relationship management skills are essential, including ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, engineering, accounting, mathematics, economics, or related quantitative field.
• Excellent business acumen
• At least 7 years of relevant financial analysis work experience
• Ability to cultivate effective relationships and communicate effectively with executive management
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills; able to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
• Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint. Hyperion, TM1 and Power BI experience is an advantage
• Proven expertise in modelling 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 recognize and resolve issues.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverable.

Additional Information

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.