Finance Director

Company Description

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.

The scope of the Finance Director covers Issuing Solutions BU and Regional Product & Solutions Function, leading end‑to‑end financial planning & analysis (reporting, forecasting, budgeting) and serves as a strategic finance business partner to its stakeholders.

Working in a matrixed organization, reporting directly to VP, Finance Value Added Services, you’ll have the opportunity to work and partner with various functions across CEMEA and Global and work closely with both Value Added Services (VAS) and Regional Products & Solutions (RPS) leadership.

The role necessitates a highly analytical mind and a strong technical background of using business and finance tools as well as the ability to provide finance strategic guidance and leadership. It is expected to create and maintain a high standard of financial discipline, business decision support, and accountability within the region.

The role will also design new processes and procedures and constantly enhance existing ones through innovation, simplification and adoption of AI tools.

Keys area of responsibility:

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A):

• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts, long‑range/multi‑year plans, and monthly close performance reporting for Issuing Solutions and RPS (revenues, OPEX, FTE, KPIs).
• Own driver‑based forecasting and continuously improve forecast accuracy by embedding learnings, leveraging AANR/SNL data, and enhancing variance narratives.
• Produce executive‑ready insights and materials (M , Q , etc) with clear risk/opportunity call‑outs, mitigation options, and decision recommendations.
• Manage the Opex Budget and Headcount of the function

Business Partnering:

• Act as trusted finance partner to Product & Solutions leadership—understanding strategies, priorities, and pain points; translating business dynamics into P&L impacts and ROI.
• Drive strategic initiatives (CVP optimization, etc), collaborating on pricing, unit‑economics, client profitability, and portfolio performance.
• Simplify complex issues and structure analysis to answer business questions and proactively communicate business implications from financial analysis at all levels.

Strategic Initiatives, Business Cases & Opportunity Assessment:

• Lead investment business cases, market entry/expansion evaluations, and opportunity assessments—defining assumptions, sensitivities, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and maintain financials for strategic initiatives, KPI set, and financial tracking models; partner with product owners to align targets and commercialization plans.
• Coordinate with regional and global teams to ensure market‑specific nuances are accurately reflected.

Process Excellence & Governance:

• Challenge planning assumptions, streamline processes, and introduce automation/standardization to improve timeliness, accuracy, and productivity.
• Ensure adherence to finance policies/processes and alignment to corporate strategic priorities.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of results and data sources used

Leadership

Skills:

• Provide guidance to all business partners on matters of AOP, Budgets, tracking, reporting and analytics.
• Proactively engage team members in Finance to develop analytics and deliver information in a format that adds value to the business.
• Be a trusted and strategic advisor to Functional Heads and establishes and maintains relationships with a broad base of key stakeholders, and serves as a key point of contact for her/his areas of responsibility.
• Acquires and maintains an understanding of the strategies, priorities and…