Sr. Finance Analyst

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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.

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

About the Role:

The Operations Support Sr. Financial analyst role reports to the Controllership Operations Sr Director for LAC based in Miami.  The position is responsible for assisting Business Functions and other functional areas to manage high risk projects and other related initiatives for clients and cardholders to drive Visa revenue growth.

The incumbent should have a solid understanding of corporate policies and procedures and should provide oversight on any identified areas of control weaknesses, being responsible for validating and coordinate policy exception requirements for the country and then channel these to the Market Controller and/or other policy owners to resolve.

The Sr. Financial Analyst acts as a key representative from the Controllership Group and will work with cross functional control groups in building a strong control environment in the region and will perform a critical role in the identification, reporting and remediation of policies deviations within areas of scope.

This role is pivotal, and the individual must be a pro-active and confident communicator with a desire to add value at different levels of the organization.  Building strong relationships with regional, hub-based functional and country teams is essential to the success of this role in assisting the business owners, to focus on business partner client services, in a compliant manner. The individual must be able to perform its work independently with minimal supervision from direct leader and is expected to interact with multiple levels in the organization.
 

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a business discipline Accounting, or Finance preferred
• 5-8 years of experience in a reporting (GAAP 606), audit, or risk related role focused on operational controls
• Experience in implementing and training on policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Project Management experience or data analytics preferred
• Good problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues and risks, including root cause analysis
• Good communication, interpersonal and influencing skills and ability to work effectively in a matrix management structure in a complex and diverse, international, and multi-cultural environment.
• Ability to anticipate and identify opportunities to establish standards and controls, as well as develop and recommend solutions
• Self starter; must be able to execute work with minimal direct supervision
• Bilingual Spanish/English (both written and verbal) required. 
• Proficient in Excel and Macros, Advanced skill in MS Office

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.