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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Job Description

Incentive Deals

• Facilitating deals review process and providing feedback where appropriate to optimize risk-adjusted returns.  Providing recommendation to senior leadership on their financial viability and execution risks. 
• Maintaining detailed deals pipeline and tracking for all deals in the covered markets, collaborating with other internal stakeholders (Legal, Client Contract Management, Controlling, etc) to ensure that the CEMEA client incentive contracts are executed in an efficient manner, properly accounted, and meet internal governance and compliance requirements. 
• Leading consistent improvements of Incentive related processes and procedures.
• Supporting CEMEA sub regions with deal modelling.
• Leading enhancements and knowledge sharing in deal modelling.
• Working closely with the team responsible for Incentives accounting to understand and to forecast the PL impact of the executed deals.

Reporting and Planning 

• Taking ownership of complex management reports with key focus in area of clients and profitability matters.
• Managing adhoc/monthly/quarterly/yearly analysis to be used by other teams and CEMEA CFO.
• Leading forecasting activities within the scope in line with regional and global requirements.
• Leading incentive forecast accuracy improvement.

Teamwork

• Actively contribute to the effectiveness of the team by supporting and co-operating with colleagues and providing cover during period of absence.
• The flexibility to liaise with various functions both within Visa and externally to deliver ad hoc projects.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

• 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 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
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, engineering, accounting, mathematics, economics, or related quantitative field.
• At least 8 years post qualification experience in finance.
• Proven expertise in long term contracts, applying financial analysis and modelling in challenging and complex situations
• Knowledge of cards business and revenues streams would be advantageous
• Experience with legal contracts in payments industry would be advantageous
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Knowledge of Power BI would be advantageous
• Fluent business english, written and spoken
• Local languages would be advantageous
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverables
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Excellent business acumen
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, able to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
• Experience in leading process improvement projects
• Strong problem solving skills and logical, analytical mind-set
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverables
• Must be proactive, can-do attitude

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.