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Team Summary

The Visa India & South Asia Financial Planning & Analysis team provides finance support across a variety of business functions. We are an agile, highly visible team that collaborates across functions and plays a key role in providing financial planning, reporting and decision support analytics to business leaders.

What a Financial Manager does at Visa:

Visa seeks a dynamic finance professional for our FP&A team, INSA based in Mumbai, India. This position will be a key financial analyst to our rapidly growing business in INSA and will be required to develop effective working relationships throughout Visa, including Executive Management, Cross-Functional and Regional teams (Business, Finance, Treasury, Legal, HR and Commercial teams).

The role will be reporting to Senior Director, Head of Finance – INSA, based in Mumbai, India. 

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the business in the delivery of financial targets

• Ensure the Country Management functional leaders are regularly updated on financial performance; provide insight into key variances and business trends and identify risk and opportunities (plus mitigating actions) to ensure delivery of the short-term financial targets and long-term strategic targets

• Support the month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting requirements in accordance with deadlines

• Review results against budget, forecast and prior periods and prepare monthly commentary and variance analysis

• Support the business planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and management reviews within the region for Revenues, Client Incentives (business case build up and contract approval) and Operating Expenses

• Coordinate inputs from the various functions for both Revenues and costs, analyse the forecast / budget outputs to support the review and challenge process

• Track the financial performance of incentive deals (expensing/payments/closure), new business ventures, and strategic plan implementation

• Partner with Global and Regional finance teams to understand variances, business drivers and influence forecasting assumptions

• Support country managers and sales cost centre managers in understanding expenditure, accruals and prepayments and improving the timing and accuracy of forecasts

• Provide financial analysis and advice for new business propositions including client incentive deals, marketing campaigns, product and acceptance initiatives, capital investment and other projects.

• Maintain an in-depth understanding of pricing dynamics in the geography, including competitive pricing and positioning

• Provide financial analysis support for pricing proposals in the country

• Establish and maintain relationships with the functional leads across the region

• While financial analysis will clearly be an important element of the role, the emphasis is on applying overall analytical skills and experience to become a highly valued business partner

Why this is important to Visa

This highly visible and influential role will work very closely with Business Heads and directly influence both near-term and long-term strategic decisions through effective reporting and insightful analytics

What you will need:

Qualifications

• CA/MBA or equivalent degree in Finance

Professional

• 8-10 years of business experience in FP&A with focus on undertaking detailed financial analysis, automating / systematizing reports

• Strong financial and risk analysis experience

• Strong experience in financial services or payments industry

• Strong ethics, integrity and accountability with ability to maintain independence, autonomy and confidentiality

• Able to prioritize multiple responsibilities and activities and pivot quickly when necessary

• Willing to engage in a broad range of activities necessary to support the cross-functional teams

• Able to maintain effectiveness in an environment with uncertainties

• Operates at an expert financial analyst and can learn and navigate technical/new concepts independently

• Go-getter; proactive and a team player

• Enjoys collaborating with others; constantly seeking to identify win/win solutions and align goals with Visa’s strategic objectives

Technical

• Strong finance and accounting knowledge

• Strong working knowledge in Microsoft Excel, Hyperion, TM1

Business

• Strong business partnering skills, excellent judgement and decision-making ability in a collaborative style

• Strong problem solving skills, with demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues and risks, including root cause analysis

• Strong communication skills: oral, written and presentation skills, interpersonal, and influencing skills to drive effective change at all levels of the organization

• Ability to anticipate and identify opportunities to establish areas of growth, as well as develop and recommend solutions

• Ability to work effectively in a matrix management structure that is diverse, international with a multi-cultural environment