Sr Finance Manager

Job Description
Position Summary
The Global Financial Planning and Analysis team serves as a strategic business partner for global business leaders and provides finance support for global business functions. We are an agile, highly visible team that collaborates across functions/product groups and play a leading role in providing financial planning, management reporting, and decision support analytics to business leaders. Visa’s Value-In-Kind (VIK) program plays an increasingly important role in fueling growth of Value Added Services (VAS) and Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS), two high priority focus areas for Visa. Appropriately structuring the offer of select VAS and CMS services in the form of value-in-kind (VIK) incentives to clients, while displacing cash incentives, is a lynchpin strategy for the company.  The Global VIK Finance Team sits within the broader Global VAS FP&A Team and closely partners with leaders across all facets of the business to advise on and plan for how to optimize on both the offer and delivery of VIK incentives to drive Visa’s growth.
We are seeking a strategic finance leader to join our VAS finance team. The Senior Finance Manager will serve in a finance leadership and partnership capacity for Global VIK Performance Management.  As a finance business partner, the candidate will cultivate strategic operational partnerships to support the execution of strategic and financial thought leadership and assist with financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting processes.
Essential Functions:
Strategic Advice and Partnership:
Partner with business leaders to evaluate the financial impact of potential investments and develop long term financial plans
Develop and present strategic insights about the VIK program and its effectiveness in driving VAS and CMS growth
Align functional goals and strategies to broader global initiatives
Lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting, multi-year strategic outlook and management reporting
Become a valued business partner to the VAS and CMS business stakeholders and executive management
Play lead role as a core member of the Global VIK central team to ensure effective rollout of VIK expansion strategy
Acquire and maintain a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities, and issues of global VIK delivery functions
Financial Management:
Lead preparation of the monthly, quarterly, and annual business plans and analyses
Interpret and present key findings to senior leadership and executive management audience
Understand business levers and recommend measures to further improve results
Establish efficient processes for monthly and quarterly performance reporting for optimal results
Project Management:
Provide decision support to senior finance leadership on investment or project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments
Provide thought leadership and guidance on core process improvements, building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables
As needed, support Senior Director with broader responsibilities around VIK and Advisory Services performance management and other strategic initiatives
Spearhead ad-hoc projects to further improve the overall performance of the team and organization(s)
Business Engagement:
Integration of finance into the business
Leading team meetings and understanding of the business
Tailored, effective presentations, analysis, and dialogue with business partners across regions and functions
Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments and drive return-on-investment discipline
Develop, improve, and manage robust toolkit to help analyze the business and enable management decision making
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.