Finance Director, Commercial Solutions; VCS LAC

Company 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.

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The Finance Director for VCS LAC is responsible for financial leadership in the designated region and market(s). Responsibility area covers all financial business aspects for the Business Unit: management and facilitation the development and delivery of the Annual Operating Plan and Multi-Year Growth Plans, coordination, analysis and review of financial data to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of all inputs/outputs, compliance with Company policies and with Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP), statutory financial and tax laws.

Collaborates with stakeholders supporting ongoing process improvement that meets business and international governance / compliance requirements while achieving strategic business and financial outcomes. The role also requires flexibility in terms of supporting specials projects or covering other aspects of financial analysis as per business requirement. Working in a matrixed organization, reporting directly to Vice President & CFO VCS, and working closely with VP of VCS and sales leads, the Director of Finance supports the clients facing organization to provide financial business support.

Additionally, the role will have a dotted line into the VP of Planning & Analysis for the LAC region. Responsibility areas cover all the aspects of financial planning, analysis and reporting, driving and maintaining high standard of financial discipline, business decision support and accountability within the designated market. The role will constantly enhance existing processes and procedures as well as propose new ones.

Works closely with the VP of VCS and sales leads to lead the development and delivery of the Budget, Forecast and Multi-Year Growth Plans driving efficiencies, monitoring resources utilization, supporting resources allocations and proposing the right costing model as well as cross charging mechanism. The role will also support the Regional CMS leader for the LAC Region.

• Responsible for all the aspects of financial planning, analysis and reporting for the functions/areas supported, including but not limited to:
• Leading the budget, forecasts and MSO processes and perform monthly and quarterly P&L reporting.
• Full management of P&L, revenue, OPEX and headcount.
• Communicate and explain business implications observed from analysis, monitoring recent business trends to ensure forecast accuracy and clarity of calculations.
• Highlight risk and opportunities and provide risk mitigation plans as well as ways to capture the opportunities.
• Revenue Analytics includes in-depth revenue and volume analysis
• Incentive and Contracts
• Expense management
• Support deal process for the Business Unit
• Produce materials for executive management review and approval with best clarity, accuracy, and timeliness of analysis (M ’s, Q ’s, business cases, etc.).
• Simplify complex issues and structure analysis to answer business questions and communicate business implications from financial analysis at all levels.
• Directly engage with various functions heads across the company to develop domain expertise.
• Design new processes and procedures and constantly enhance existing ones through innovation and simplification in alignment with business and international governance / compliance requirements while achieving strategic business and financial outcomes.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of results and data sources used.
• Foster Diverse and Inclusive workplace and strong organizational culture
• Execute flawless…