Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.
Job Description
Visa’s Corporate Finance team is looking for a talented Director with a strong quantitative and analytical background. Our team directly supports Visa’s President, CFO, CEO and other senior leaders throughout the company with financial and business analysis.
This is a unique opportunity and calls for an ambitious and hard-working professional who will be highly visible at the Corporate level. The ideal candidate will have an established track record of analyzing complex, ambiguous and rapidly evolving business and financial questions within a data-rich environment. This position will be based in Visa’s San Francisco office.
Essential Functions:
- Lead quantitative analysis on Visa’s business drivers to provide proactive insights that shape internal and external communication on Visa’s performance and drive decision making
- Assess key macro and micro trends (e.g., Government stimulus impact, travel recovery trajectory, inflation) affecting Visa’s business model and put in place creative analytics to identify their impact on our drivers and financial results
- Outstanding problem-solving, analytical, and quantitative skills, and ability to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
- Enthusiastic work ethic, passion for learning, acute professional curiosity, and ability to solve problems with balance of independence and well-solicited input
- Structure approaches to evaluate competitors’ financial performance and provide fact-based understanding of competitive landscape to executive leadership
- Develop business intuition to communicate the main implications observed from analysis
- Design executive level presentations and prepare the President’s presentations to internal and external audiences including the Board of Directors
- Identify opportunities to constantly improve, streamline, and automate various areas of the team's responsibility and engage in the development of new processes and tools
- Build strong knowledge of Visa's business through constant communication with top finance and business leaders
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 10 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications:
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, engineering, accounting, mathematics, economics, statistics, or related quantitative field
- Relevant financial analysis work experience, with 5+ years in corporate finance, management consulting or investment banking
- MBA and/or CFA preferred
- Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong business acumen and commercial intuition required. Understanding of Visa’s business is preferred but not necessary
- Proven expertise in modeling techniques and managing large data sets
- Ability to cultivate effective relationships and communicate effectively cross-functionally and with all levels of management
- Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
- Strong bias for action and ability to proactively identify and resolve issues
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverables
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% 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.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 138,500.00 to 180,000.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.