Senior Director, Corporate Analysis

About UsVisa 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.

Job Description Visa’s Strategic Finance team is looking for a talented Senior Director with a strong quantitative and analytical background. Our team directly supports Visa’s President, CFO, CEO and other senior leaders throughout the company with financial and business analysis.

This is a unique opportunity and calls for an ambitious and hard-working professional who will be highly visible at the Corporate level.  The ideal candidate will have an established track record of analyzing complex, ambiguous and rapidly evolving business and financial questions within a data-rich environment. This position will be based in Visa’s San Francisco office or in Foster City.

Essential Functions:

Lead quantitative analysis on Visa’s business drivers to provide proactive insights that shape internal and external communication on Visa’s performance and drive decision making

Assess key macro and micro trends affecting Visa’s business model and put in place creative analytics to identify their impact on our drivers and financial results

Develop business intuition to communicate the main implications observed from analysis to support Visa’s strategy and operations, including Visa’s quarterly earnings call and investor conversations

Design executive level presentations and prepare the President’s presentations to internal and external audiences including the Board of Directors Structure approaches to evaluate competitors’ financial performance and provide fact-based understanding of competitive landscape to executive leadership

Lead and manage a small team of outstanding individuals

Identify opportunities to constantly improve, streamline, and automate various areas of the team's responsibility and engage in the development of new processes and tools

Build strong knowledge of Visa's business through constant communication with top finance and business leaders

This role is a Hybrid position to be located in our San Francisco, CA office location. Expectations of days in office will be aligned with the hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

12 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree; 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD); or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD);
PhD with 9+ years of experience

Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, mathematics or related quantitative field.
10-20 years of relevant financial analysis work experience; with 5+ years in management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance or highly analytical roles data intensive industriesMBA and/or CFA preferred

Expert skills in MS Excel and Power Point Strong  business acumen and commercial intuition required. Understanding of Payments industry and Visa’s business is preferred but not necessary

Outstanding problem-solving, analytical, and quantitative skills; ability to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses

Proven ability to build and lead high performing teams

Ability to cultivate effective relationships and…