FP&A Finance Manager - India & South Asia
Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description
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
Qualifications
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
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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