Senior Director, Finance - Issuing Soultions

Job Description
Visa is looking for a proactive strategic finance leader to join our Value-Added Services (VAS) Finance team. As one of the senior finance leaders for the Issuing Solutions Product team, the Senior Director will collaborate with key business executives and operational teams to develop financial strategies and analytics to enable sound business decision making around Loyalty &
Engagement. The position involves driving important insights with senior finance leaders and executive management and require strong influence management skills. The Senior Director will manage and mentor the team to provide strong business partnership. The ideal candidate will have a deep background in financial and general business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience managing teams and collaborating with various functions.
Essential Functions
Strategic Advice and Partnerships
Cultivate effective partnerships with senior executives to develop long-term financial plans
Acquire and maintain a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities and issues of the business unit, globally
Develop and present strategic insights about the business
Align functional goals and strategies to broader global initiatives
Lead performance diagnostics, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting
Become a trusted business partner to all cross-functional stakeholders
Financial Management
Lead preparation of the annual business plan and forecasts, driving analysis across a globally matrixed organization
Interpret and present key findings for senior leadership audience
Enable management by providing timely, accurate information
Understand business drivers and recommend measures to further improve results and drive improvements to provide more insights
Establish efficient processes for monthly and quarterly performance reporting for optimal result
Project Management:
Spearhead ad-hoc projects to improve the overall performance of the team and organization(s)
Decision support to senior finance leadership on investment or project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments
Provide thought leadership and guidance over core processes building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables
Partner with Financial Systems team to develop and execute roadmap to improve and automate revenue and driver analysis
Business Engagement:
Integration of finance into the business, attend team meetings or understanding of the business
Tailored, effective presentations, analysis and dialogue with each business partner
Timely, meaningful views on their business
Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments and return-on-investment discipline
Robust toolkit to help manage the business and enable management decision making
People Management:
Attract, recruit and train top talent into the Finance organization
Mentor and manage a team of high performing finance resources by helping to create a center of excellence and instilling best practices across finance
Influence, motivate and collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders
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.