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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

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.