Senior Global Finance Manager

Job Description

Company Description

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.

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

The Global Finance Organization is responsible for enabling Visa’s business strategy through disciplined financial planning, insightful analytics, and strong financial governance. We are seeking a strategically oriented Senior Finance Manager to serve as a key Finance Business Partner within the Global Finance function. This role provides financial leadership, decision support, and analytical insight across Finance sub-functions, and partners closely with Finance executives to ensure effective resource allocation, financial discipline, and delivery of strategic priorities. The ideal candidate will have a deep background in financial and general business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience collaborating with various internal departments and functions.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnership & Strategic Support:

• Act as a primary Finance Business Partner to the Finance function, providing insight, challenge, and guidance to support strategic and operational decision making.
• Collaborate with Finance Leadership Team members to evaluate initiatives, develop business cases, and assess financial impact, ROI, and trade‑offs.
• Support planning discussions, investment prioritization, and resource allocation decisions across the Finance organization.

Financial Planning & Analysis:

• Own global finance planning cycles including budgeting, quarterly outlooks, and rolling forecast across the consolidated consolidate finance sub-function budgets (Controllership, Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit, Procurement, etc).
• Coordinate with Workforce Planner (WFP) to align headcount plans, compensation cycle, and headcount investments with budget and forecast.
• Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses to support strategic initiatives and transformation efforts.
• Collaborate with the Finance Velocity Office (FVO) to evaluate and prioritize Finance transformation investments, location strategy and org design, build business cases, track benefits realization and report payback vs plan.
• Establish and track KPIs for the Finance function (e.g. days to close, forecast accuracy, process STP rates, audit findings, tax effective rate, sourcing savings), publish dashboards and OKRs.

Reporting & Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborate with the Center of Excellence (COE), which supports Visa’s FP&A teams, to prepare and present monthly and quarterly financial reviews, management reports, and executive‑ready materials for Finance Leadership Team.
• Prepare CFO materials on finance performance, forecasts, and business cases, including presentations, emails, and special studies.
• Translate complex financial results into clear, concise and actionable narratives for senior finance stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses to support strategic initiatives and transformation efforts.
• Ensure accuracy, transparency, and integrity of financial reporting and analyses.

Process Improvement & Governance:

• Identify opportunities to streamline planning, reporting, and analytical processes to improve efficiency, accuracy and quality of outputs.
• Support adherence to financial governance, spend policies, and internal controls across the Finance cost base.
• Partner with process owners and transformation teams to support change management and adoption of new tools and ways of working.

People Management:

• Establish working norms and SLAs with Finance stakeholders, ensure responsive business partnering and proactive communication of risks & opportunities
• Partner with FVO to lead change management for Finance Transformation initiatives, align cross-functional teams, manage communication and resolve resistance to new processes & tools
• Promote collaboration across time zones and cultures, ensure inclusive team practices and effective knowledge sharing.
• Model ethical leadership and compliance, reinforce internal controls and confidentiality standards with the planning and reporting processes.

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

Qualifications

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Strong experience in Financial Planning & Analysis within a complex organization.
• 9+ years of finance experience, including business partnering with senior leaders.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and financial reporting systems, Tableau or similar analytics tools preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and modeling skills with attention to detail.
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate insights effectively and influence stakeholders without formal authority.
• Experience working in a matrixed, global environment.
• Ability to work effectively with other functional areas and understand the operational and cultural issues relevant to achieving superior results.
• High energy, proactive mindset with strong commercial acumen and accountability.
• Client focused with tenacity to resolve issues and conflicts with exceptional interpersonal and people management skills

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 149,800.00 to 240,100.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.