Director - Finance Ssa

6 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Visa Full time

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**:
The position will partner the Head of Finance SSA and be responsible for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, deal creation/modelling and analytics to be used by Executive Management. This role will have direct exposure to the SSA leadership team and be required to work closely with other Finance teams across the world.

**Responsibilities include**:
**Revenue Analytics & Business Partnering**
- Partner with geographic counterparts and regional teams to ensure alignment on financial performance and drivers of forecasts/results
- Lead the month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting requirements in accordance with deadlines
- Provide leadership in the areas of revenue management and investment decision support.
- Business Partnering to develop strategies to drive growth and execution thereof
- Prepare comprehensive business trend materials used for communication to the SSA and regional leadership teams
- Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of results and data sources used
- Lead the commercial structure of client incentive deals and build the associated financial models while ensuring that Visa’s interests are front & center while offering attractive terms to client to ensure continued market share wins for Visa

**Budgeting and Forecasting**
- Lead the production of the key business drivers (e.g., volumes, transactions, etc.) for use in strategic planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting
- Manage the forecast and budget process for the regions, ensuring all finance business partners process their inputs and analytics in compliance with published deadlines and corporate guidelines
- Provide advisory and guidance to finance business partners so they are informed of their approved budgets & forecasts and their commitment to budget/forecast on a continuous basis
- Build and maintain relationships with finance business partners to ensure they are aware of budget forecasts timelines and data requirements, and understand the need to adhere to them
- Participate in continuous improvement activities to exceed customer expectations and promote a professional finance organization.

**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.**

**Qualifications**:

- Excellent business acumen
- Financial/commercial analysis/FP&A experience from within a large, matrixed multi-national, publicly-traded corporation would be preferable
- Must be a proactive, high-energy and motivated team player capable of delivering multiple initiatives/projects
- Ability to cultivate strong and effective relationships across the business and communicate effectively with Executive Management
- Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, able to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
- Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint, coding expertise would be and advantage
- Proven system skills will be beneficial (e.g. TM1, Hyperion, etc.)
- Proven expertise in modeling techniques and managing large data sets
- Must be detail oriented and possess good prioritization skills to ensure relevancy, accuracy and quality of output and to ensure these are delivered according to business needs
- Able to work cross functionally, geographically and with virtual teams while promoting a culture of openness, trust and flexibility
- Experience managing small teams ideal

Additional Information

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.

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