Senior Director, Corporate Analysis

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa’s Strategic Finance team is looking for a talented Senior 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 or in Foster City.

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 affecting Visa’s business model and put in place creative analytics to identify their impact on our drivers and financial results
• Develop business intuition to communicate the main implications observed from analysis to support Visa’s strategy and operations, including Visa’s quarterly earnings call and investor conversations
• Design executive level presentations and prepare the President’s presentations to internal and external audiences including the Board of Directors
• Structure approaches to evaluate competitors’ financial performance and provide fact-based understanding of competitive landscape to executive leadership
• Lead and manage a small team of outstanding individuals
• 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

This role is a Hybrid position to be located in our San Francisco, CA office location. Expectations of days in office will be aligned with the hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• 12 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree; 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD); or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD); PhD with 9+ years of experience
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, mathematics or related quantitative field.
• 10-20 years of relevant financial analysis work experience; with 5+ years in management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance or highly analytical roles data intensive industries
• MBA and/or CFA preferred
• Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong business acumen and commercial intuition required. Understanding of Payments industry and Visa’s business is preferred but not necessary
• Outstanding problem-solving, analytical, and quantitative skills; ability to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
• Proven ability to build and lead high performing teams
• Ability to cultivate effective relationships and communicate effectively cross-functionally and with all levels of management
• Proven expertise in modeling techniques and managing large data sets. 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
• Enthusiastic work ethic, passion for learning, and acute professional curiosity; able to solve problems with balance of independence and well-solicited input
• Strong leadership skills generating support and momentum among functional peers
• Global or multi-national business experience on-the-ground preferred

Information for US Applicants

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