Senior Finance Analyst

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Team Summary

The Finance Business Partner team is an agile, highly visible team that partners with the business to turn financial and operational data into insights, decisions and actions.

As Finance continues to evolve, we are looking for someone who combines strong finance fundamentals with curiosity, commercial thinking and a digital mindset. You will serve as a Finance Business Partner to Visa’s Value Added Services business, helping stakeholders understand business performance, evaluate opportunities and make better decisions.

A key part of the role will be to embrace new technology and AI-enabled ways of working across management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and analytics. The role will help Finance simplify processes, improve the quality and speed of insights, and spend more time understanding business performance and partnering with stakeholders.

What a Senior Financial Analyst, Value Added Services Finance Business Partner does at Visa

Business Partnering & Commercial Insights

• Partner with VAS business teams to understand business performance, priorities, opportunities and challenges.

• Translate financial and operational data into clear commercial insights and actionable recommendations for business partners.

• Develop a strong understanding of the underlying business drivers and use this to provide constructive challenge and support decision-making.

• Support strategic initiatives and investment decisions through scenario modelling, financial analysis and business cases.

• Communicate financial insights in a simple, compelling way to both Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Support multi-year planning, annual budgeting, forecasting cycles and business reviews.

• Support the development of driver-based and forward-looking forecasts that connect financial outcomes to underlying business drivers.

• Analyze performance against plan and forecast and identify the underlying drivers of variances, risks and opportunities.

• Partner with stakeholders to develop realistic assumptions and translate business developments into financial implications.

• Use scenario and sensitivity analysis to help the business understand potential outcomes and make informed decisions.

Digital, AI & Finance Transformation

• Use AI and digital tools to enhance finance workflows, particularly across reporting, budgeting, forecasting and business analysis.

• Identify repetitive and manual finance activities that can be simplified, automated or augmented through technology.

• Apply generative AI and analytical tools to accelerate analysis, identify patterns and synthesize information, while exercising appropriate financial judgement and validating outputs.

• Contribute to more efficient, scalable and self-service reporting and analytics capabilities.

• Act as a digital champion within the Finance team, sharing new ways of working and helping colleagues adopt tools and approaches that improve productivity and decision-making.

Data, Reporting & Analytics

• Analyze financial and operational data to identify trends, drivers and emerging issues.

• Support and enhance management reporting and dashboards that focus attention on the metrics and insights that matter, rather than simply reporting results.

• Improve the quality and accessibility of financial information used by business partners and Finance leadership.

• Look for opportunities to integrate data from different sources to create a more complete view of business performance.

• Identify opportunities to simplify existing reports and processes and reduce activities that provide limited decision-making value.

Continuous Improvement

• Bring a curious and transformation-oriented mindset to existing Finance processes.

• Question established ways of working and proactively identify simpler, faster and more effective approaches.

• Collaborate across Finance and other teams to improve processes, data quality and analytical capabilities.

• Balance automation and speed with appropriate financial controls, accuracy and professional judgement.

Projects you will be a part of

You will be part of one of the fastest growing functions over the mid and long term as well as part of the critical team in diversifying Visa’s revenue growth. Every area of growth identified by the VAS function will be ground breaking for Visa.

Why this is important to Visa

The VAS Function is a relatively new organization in Visa but has been identified as one of the most critical new functions, specifically to diversify and grow Visa’s revenue both in the medium and long term. The FBP will be part of one of the fastest growing functions in Visa over the next few years.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), commercial finance, business partnering, financial forecasting, management reporting, or strategic finance.
• Strong commercial acumen and curiosity, with an interest in understanding how a business actually makes money and what drives performance.
• Ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear insights, recommendations and actions.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to engage and constructively challenge business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to move from data to insight rather than simply report results.
• A digital-first mindset and demonstrated interest in using technology to improve finance workflows
• Curiosity and confidence in using AI-enabled productivity and analytical tools, with an ability to identify practical applications within Finance while applying appropriate judgement and controls.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Power BI, TM1 or other planning and visualization tools would be advantageous.
• Ability to work with large datasets and identify meaningful trends, relationships and business drivers.
• Comfortable experimenting with new tools and approaches and sharing learnings with others.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, matrixed environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Professional accounting/finance qualification or relevant equivalent experience.

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.