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

Working in a matrixed organization, reporting directly to Senior Director, GCC Finance, and working closely with BPO and BD team, the Senior Financial Analyst supports the clients facing organization to provide financial business support. 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. S/he will work closely with the Vice President Finance, Senior Director Finance, Finance Business Partners, Sales and BPO to support delivery of the Budget, Forecast and Multi-Year Growth Plans driving efficiencies to support client deal structuring and approval process 

Key areas of responsibility:

Revenue Analytics

• The business requires in-depth revenue and volume analysis that includes:
• Volume trend and product mix analysis (International vs. Domestic)
• Production of key business drivers (e.g. volumes, transactions, etc.) to be used in strategic planning, annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting
• Proactive identification of development areas in designated markets, financial support of market development strategy
• Support in pricing and interchange related discussion concerning the covered markets, to include the impacts of both pricing and interchanges on client profitability
• Management of ad hoc, monthly, quarterly, yearly analysis of Market and Client trends to be used by the all supported departments and the GCM’s
• Incentive and Contracts
• Responsible for deal modelling for clients in the covered markets and ensure it meets business needs and internal governance and compliance requirements (includes preparing the deal approval documents)  
• Review incentive deal proposals with geo, functional teams and provide feedback where appropriate to optimize risk-adjusted returns.  Provide recommendation to senior leadership team on their financial viability and execution risks.
• Detailed deal tracking for all executed deals in the covered markets, providing management with real time analysis on deals performance. 
• Provides financial analysis for forecasting contra-revenues.  Review and provide challenge to sales teams to obtain realistic projections for existing deals and new deals.  
• Deal reforecasting on a monthly/quarterly basis and budget process
• Collaborate with other internal stakeholders (Legal, Client Contract Management, Controlling, etc) to ensure that the GCC client incentive contracts are executed in an efficient manner, properly accounted and meets internal governance and compliance requirements.

Expense management:

• Proactive management of cross-functional & geography expense planning. Financial leadership in forecast and budget process for the markets, Tracking and monthly performance, understanding of variances.
• Advisory and guidance to cost center managers so they are informed of their approved budgets & forecasts and their commitment to budget, forecast on a continuous basis. To build and maintain relationships with cost center managers to ensure they are aware of budget forecasts timelines and data requirements
• Participation in continuous improvement activities to exceed customer expectations and promote a professional finance organization.

This is a hybrid position based in the Dubai office, reports to Senior Director, GCC. 

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

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, engineering, accounting, mathematics, economics, or related quantitative field
• Excellent business acumen
• At least 5-7 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 well-structured analyses
• Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint, Power BI. Hyperion and TM1 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 deliverables
• Strong interpersonal skills will be required to address on-going needs of a complex, matrix reporting structure, and multinational organization

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.