Sr. Global Finance Manager

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 Global Finance Organization is responsible for enabling Visa's business strategy through disciplined financial planning, insightful analytics, and strong financial governance. We are seeking a strategically oriented Senior Finance Manager to serve as a key Finance Business Partner within the Global Finance function. This role provides financial leadership, decision support, and analytical insight across Finance sub-functions, and partners closely with Finance executives to ensure effective resource allocation, financial discipline, and delivery of strategic priorities.

The ideal candidate will have a deep background in financial and general business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience collaborating with various internal departments and functions.

Business Partnership & Strategic Support:

• Act as a primary Finance Business Partner to the Finance function, providing insight, challenge, and guidance to support strategic and operational decision making.
• Collaborate with Finance Leadership Team members to evaluate initiatives, develop business cases, and assess financial impact, ROI, and tradeoffs.
• Support planning discussions, investment prioritization, and resource allocation decisions across the Finance organization.

Financial Planning & Analysis:

• Own global finance planning cycles including budgeting, quarterly outlooks, and rolling forecast across the consolidated finance sub-function budgets (Controllership, Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit, Procurement, etc).
• Coordinate with Workforce Planner (WFP) to align headcount plans, compensation cycle, and headcount investments with budget and forecast.
• Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses to support strategic initiatives and transformation efforts.
• Collaborate with the Finance Velocity Office (FVO) to evaluate and prioritize Finance transformation investments, location strategy and org design, build business cases, track benefits realization and report payback vs plan.
• Establish and track KPIs for the Finance function (e.g. days to close, forecast accuracy, process STP rates, audit findings, tax effective rate, sourcing savings), publish dashboards and OKRs.

Reporting & Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborate with the Center of Excellence (COE), which supports Visa's FP&A teams, to prepare and present monthly and quarterly financial reviews, management reports, and executive‑ready materials for Finance Leadership Team.
• Prepare CFO materials on finance performance, forecasts, and business cases, including presentations, emails, and special studies.
• Translate complex financial results into clear, concise and actionable narratives for senior finance stakeholders.
• Ensure accuracy, transparency, and integrity of financial reporting and analyses.

Process Improvement & Governance:

• Identify opportunities to streamline planning, reporting, and analytical processes to improve efficiency, accuracy and quality of outputs.
• Support adherence to financial governance, spend policies, and internal controls across the Finance cost base.
• Partner with process owners and transformation teams to support change management and adoption of new tools and ways of working.

People Management:

• Establish working norms and SLAs with Finance stakeholders, ensure responsive business partnering and proactive communication of risks & opportunities.
• Partner with FVO to lead change management for Finance Transformation initiatives, align cross‑functional teams, manage communication and resolve resistance to new…