Sr. Global Finance Manager

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.

• 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 trade‑offs.
• Support planning discussions, investment prioritization, and resource Finance organization.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 processes & tools
• Promote collaboration across time zones and cultures, ensure inclusive team practices and effective knowledge sharing.
• Model ethical leadership and compliance, reinforce internal controls and confidentiality standards with the planning and reporting processes.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of…