Finance Director

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Financial Management:

• Oversee the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting process for the South Africa cluster.
• Manage the budgeting and forecasting process for the South Africa cluster.
• Implement strategies to prevent and resolve bad debts.
• Provide in-depth support in the areas of revenue management and investment decision.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities to meet or exceed internal customers’ expectations.

Revenue Analytics and Business Partnering:

• Lead the analysis of key business drivers for strategic planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting for the South Africa cluster.
• Actively engage in the modelling and review of client deals, ensuring accuracy and alignment with the company's financial goals and strategies.
• Identify and analyze potential opportunities and risks in client deals, providing actionable insights for decision-making.

Compliance and Governance:

• Ensure deals and approval-to-spend requests are captured, recorded, summarized, and reported in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of all financial assumptions, results and data sources used.
• Provide advisory and guidance to business partners on deals structuring, of their approved budgets and forecasts, and their commitment to budget/forecast on a continuous basis.

Relationship Management:

• Partner with business and regional teams to ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
• Demonstrate strong sense of urgency when preparing and evaluating multiple incentive deals, and proactively align priorities with South Africa Cluster Head on a weekly basis.
• Build and maintain relationships with finance business partners in SSA and CEMEA Hub, to ensure they are aware of the latest deals’ timelines, risks/opportunities, and how we plan to quickly mitigate or leverage them respectively.

Critical Success Factors in The Role:

The What:

• Deliver financial excellence and drive business growth in the South Africa cluster.
• Ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
• Maintain compliance with policies and procedures and reporting requirements.
• Build and maintain relationships with finance business partners in SSA and CEMEA.

The How:

• Enable each other to success: Work and win together with business stakeholders as partners, removing barriers and empowering teams to maximize the impact of collective resources and capabilities.
• Deliver quickly and seamlessly: Plan carefully and execute successfully, to make it easier to get things done.
• Act as an owner: Be deeply committed to fostering long-term growth and value. Viewed as a dedicated, resourceful, and proactive contributor, pinpointing issues, opportunities, and solutions.
• Listen and learn from business stakeholders: Gain profound insights into her/his stakeholders’ needs to help them accomplish their objectives.

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

Qualifications

Leadership:
• 7-10 years of work experience in multinational business environment and a bachelor’s degree or 5 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA).
• Past experience in one of the following industries is highly desirable: Payment Technology, Consulting, FMCG, or Telecom.
• Proactive, high-energy, and motivated team player.
• Strong communication skills and creates deep relationships across the business and communicates effectively with executive management.
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Able to work cross-functionally, geographically, and with virtual teams while promoting a culture of openness, trust, and flexibility.

Technical:
• Degree in Accounting or professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent) is preferred.
• Strong FP&A skills: Experience in forecasting based on trends, historical data, current market conditions, and strategic plans. Proficient in developing and managing revenue budgets. Proven ability to analyze financial data and succinctly summarize for non-Finance audience. Experienced in working with financial models.
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required and experience in Power BI is desirable. IBM Cognos TM1 and Hyperion experience would be an advantage. Conceptual knowledge of financial databases is beneficial.

Business:
• Financial/commercial analysis/FP&A experience from within a large, multi-national, publicly traded corporation.
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, able to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses.
• Must be detail-oriented and possess good prioritization skills to ensure relevancy, accuracy, and quality of output.

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.