Director - Financial Analysis

Visa; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global payments technology company is seeking a Director of Financial Analysis to support leadership in achieving business goals. The successful candidate will utilize strong analytical skills to lead financial diagnostics, budgeting, and reporting for Visa Direct. This role, requiring extensive experience and collaboration across teams, offers a hybrid work model with flexibility regarding onsite days. A Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field is essential, alongside significant experience in financial analysis and a strong business acumen.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent advanced degrees with reduced experience.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to drive financial processes.
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance diagnostics and management reporting regionally.
• Identify financial trends and define decisions for strategic management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure efficient decision-making.

Skills

Strategic technical analytical skills

Collaboration skills

Financial analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in finance, engineering, accounting, economics or related field

Tools

Advanced application of pivot tables and macros

Job description

The Director Financial AnalysisVisa Direct role will be responsible for supporting Visa Direct leadership in delivering business objectives providing analytical & financial insights driving forecast & management reporting processes and standardization for Visa Direct regionally.

The ideal candidate will have strong strategic technical analytical and collaboration skills combined with meaningful FP&A experience and the ability to work across a matrix business organizational structure. This role will have exposure with key Global and Regional Visa Direct leadership teams and their respective Finance Partners.

• Lead performance diagnostics budgeting forecasting multiyear strategic outlook and management reporting regionally
• Identify financial trends insights and defining critical decisions to ensure the effective strategic management of the business and delivery of Visa Direct financial performance
• Perform robust financial analysis and be able to succinctly outline and present key drivers themes and key risks while applying business and financial acumen to explain underlying drivers of results across several scenarios
• Actively maintain current tools/models and introduce new tools/models/processes to improve analysis used for executive financial deliverables
• Collaborate in the storyboarding of analytical output and production of communication materials for related presentations
• Identify risk and opportunities (plus mitigating actions) to ensure delivery on targets
• Provide ad hoc business analysis and support the ongoing management of key initiatives and investments such as market opportunity sizing pricing opportunity etc.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business and provide analysis reports and presentations and to ensure efficient information and decisionmaking flows
• Active participant and teammate to Global Regional and country counterparts in promoting best practices and collaboration

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

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree in finance engineering accounting economics or related quantitative field 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:

• 12 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree in finance engineering accounting economics or related quantitative field MBA a plus or 8 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 5 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Strong business acumen and multifunctional business experience a plus
• Demonstrated program leadership capabilities to drive key financial processes
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills ability to resolve tough business problems with wellstructured analyses
• Advanced application of pivot tables macros and formulas
• Solutionoriented and great problem solver ability to strike balance between compliance / governance requirements and achieving business outcomes
• Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse team and produce time sensitive deliverables

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime