Finance Manager, Financial Planning Strategy & Analytics

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Visa 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.

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Job Description

Job Summary

The Finance Manager, Financial Planning Strategy & Analytics will play a key role in developing and delivering Visa’s global financial planning capabilities. Reporting to the Senior Director, Financial Planning Strategy & Playbook, this individual will support the design, coordination, and continuous improvement of planning processes, methodologies, tools, and analytics across the organization. Working closely with Corporate, Regional, and Business Unit Finance teams, they will help strengthen forecast quality, promote consistency in financial planning, and translate financial and business data into insights that support decision-making. The role will span a range of planning, analytical, and transformation initiatives, with priorities evolving alongside the needs of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Planning and Analytics:
  Support global Budget, Outlook, and Long-Range Planning activities through financial analysis, forecasting, modeling, scenario analysis, and consolidation of planning outputs. Develop and enhance analytical capabilities focused on key business drivers, macroeconomic trends, and foreign exchange assumptions, assessing their impact on financial performance and forecasts.
• Process Standardization and Governance:
  Contribute to the development and implementation of standardized financial planning processes, methodologies, and playbooks across the organization to strengthen planning governance, improve operational efficiency, and promote consistent execution of global planning activities.
• Forecast Quality and Performance Monitoring:
  Support the development of approaches to evaluate forecast accuracy, monitor performance against plans, and assess underlying planning assumptions. Contribute to adaptable planning strategies that respond to changes in the business environment, market conditions, and organizational priorities.
• Quality Control and Continuous Improvement:
  Review existing planning approaches, outputs, and tools to identify gaps and opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, transparency, and control. Help simplify activities, reduce duplication, and enhance the quality of financial planning.
• Innovation and Best Practices:
  Drive or support initiatives to modernize planning capabilities, including more effective analytical and modeling techniques, automation, and emerging technologies. Partner with systems and transformation teams to translate business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration and Change Management:
  Partner with Corporate FP&A, Regional and Business Unit Finance, and other specialist teams to align priorities, share best practices, coordinate activities, and support the adoption of new ways of working. Communicate clearly and influence stakeholders across a global organization.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Strong understanding of financial planning processes, methodologies, and best practices, with practical financial modeling and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in financial planning tools and technologies, including advanced spreadsheet skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage evolving priorities.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or finance transformation within a large, complex, or global organization.
• Experience with driver-based forecasting, performance analysis, planning consolidation, or strategic decision support.
• Familiarity with enterprise planning platforms (e.g., Oracle EPM/Hyperion), reporting tools, or automation and analytics technologies.
• A proactive, collaborative approach and the ability to work independently through ambiguity and influence without direct authority.

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.