Finance Director - VAS RaIS Deals

This role will lead across two key areas:

• Finance Business Partner for the RaIS (Risk & Identity Solutions) portfolio responsible for all aspects of Financial Planning and Analysis.
• VAS (Value Added Services) Deal Governance and Modelling .

Keys Area of Responsibility :

• Support and execute on the continuing transformation and modernization of the finance function to accelerate business operations and decisionmaking drive operational efficiencies and execute with excellence.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with key stakeholders and serves as a key point of contact for their areas of responsibility
• Acquires and maintains an understanding of the strategies priorities and challenges of the teams supported

Financial Business Partner Risk & Identity Solutions CEMEA:

• Financial leadership and management of the P&L.
• Lead reporting budgeting and forecasting processes for portfolio aligning multiple stakeholders across regional global teams and CEMEA sub regions. Leads the review and challenge processes.
• Proactively communicate business trends and highlight risk and opportunities. Partners with business on risk mitigation plans as well as ways to capture the opportunities.
• Simplify complex issues and structure analysis to answer business questions and communicate business implications from financial analysis.

VAS Deals Governance & Modelling:

• Support the ValueAdded Services (VAS) deal modelling governance and communication of latest concepts leading the implementation of the global tools and process for VAS Standalone deals.
• Supports sellers and deal ops team on deal structure ensuring optimal commercials.
• Engage with local pricing teams and governance bodies (GIG (Geopraphic Incentive Group) PreGIG) to ensure smooth approval of VAS deals.
• Discuss discount pricing through VAS as part of a Core deal VAS Standalone deals and Pricing Discount (Net Billing).
• Develop analytics to enhance transparency on discounts and incentives.

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

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) 
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelors degree in finance engineering accounting mathematics economics or related quantitative field.
Excellent business acumen
At least 12 years of relevant financial analysis work experience
Ability to cultivate effective relationships and communicate effectively with executive management
Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills; able to resolve tough business problems with wellstructured analyses
Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint. Hyperion TM1 and Power BI experience is an advantage
Proven expertise in modelling techniques and managing large data sets
Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output.
Strong bias for action and ability to proactively recognize and resolve issues.
Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverable.
Critical Success Factors:
Demonstrate Visa Leadership Principles
Ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity.
Curious cando attitude and accountability.
Ability to manage and prioritize workload. Sense of urgency.
Excellent communication skills verbal and written with effective interaction with various levels of Visa management.
Critical thinking to challenge teams on financial and commercial assumptions.
Multicultural sensitivity and interpersonal relationship management skills are essential including ability to work effectively in a crossfunctional team.

Additional Information :

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime

Key Skills
Accounting Software,Forecasting,Ellucian,Financial Report Writing,GAAP,Accounting,Corporate Finance,Financial Analysis,Financial Modeling,Budgeting,Financial Management,Financial Planning
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1