Director, Financial Analysis - US Deals

Tink; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology company is seeking a Director for their US Deal team in Toronto. This role focuses on financial modelling and analysis to structure client deals, providing strategic support to sales and legal teams. Candidates need extensive experience in financial transaction analysis, strong communication skills, and a collaborative approach. The company values diversity and provides equal opportunity for all applicants.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience or 8 years with an advanced degree.
• Experience in financial transaction analysis or pricing negotiation preferred.
• Ability to articulate financial constructs to non-financial audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop financial models and analyses for client incentive deals.
• Collaborate with Sales and Legal teams during deal negotiation.
• Support deal strategy to meet Visa’s long-term goals.

Skills

Analytical / Problem Solving Skills

Strong Communication Skills

Collaboration

Project Management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Degree

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Adobe PDF

Job description

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

The US Deal team is a function in Finance responsible for providing financial analysis and deal pricing expertise to compete for client brand decisions. The team is responsible for providing deal support for Visa’s largest book of business globally. This includes end-to-end deal execution in collaboration with various stakeholders and cross functional teams. The team is critical to delivering against Visa's revenue and business objectives and highly visible to executive leadership.

This role is responsible for the development of detailed financial models and analyses to structure client incentive deals, utilizing and producing different financial outputs as appropriate (including Visa P&L, projected cash flow and amortization schedules). The Director will collaborate and partner with Visa’s Sales and Legal teams to provide support and direction regarding appropriate contract structures and terms. In addition, they will participate in the resolution of financial structure and contractual issues during negotiations with clients and provide financial leadership across a subset of our client deals, in support of Visa's revenue / business objectives alongside various business partners, including:

• Structuring client / Visa negotiated commitments and associated pricing.
• Supporting sales in negotiation and execution of deals.
• Reviewing and approving contracts / client incentive agreements.
• Ensuring Visa meets critical financial, contractual, and regulatory commitments.
• Supporting deal strategy to meet Visa’s long term goals.
• Drive on the most complex and strategic deals – Own the development of detailed financial models and analyses to structure client incentive deals, utilizing and producing different financial outputs as appropriate (including Visa P&L, projected cash flow and amortization schedules).

Advance Visa’s multi-year growth aspirations as a Strategic Deal Partner:

• Provide senior management with critical input to make tough deal decisions.
• Provide expertise / thought leadership to team and stakeholders on deal best practices, including education and training on deal structuring, deal strategy, deal metrics.
• Collaborate with stakeholders / cross functional teams to support Visa's strategic imperatives, including develop deal strategies and campaigns to continue to grow and protect brand placement and supporting Commercial Money Movement and Value Added Service initiatives.
• Develop talent – Drive team engagement and development through coaching, continuous feedback, identifying growth opportunities Enable and empower team to drive and perform independently across deals and projects Champion inclusion and diversity.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD)
• Financial transaction analysis, contract or pricing negotiation experience preferred, familiarity with Payments is a plus
• Analytical / Problem Solving Skills: Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills. Strong data research and manipulation skills. Experience in investment, valuation, or transactional analysis. Ability to be objective in analysis.
• Communication: Strong communication skills: written, verbal, and formal presentation. Able to adjust communication style and messaging for different audience. Ability to articulate and explain financial constructs to a non-financial audience.
• Collaboration: Strong collaboration skills: work well as part of a cross-functional team and able to influence both internal and external stakeholders. Ability to find and articulate win-win solutions in contract negotiations. Balances needs of the business with individual deal needs.
• Project Management: Strong organizational and time management skills. Ability to translate data effectively into actionable information to drive results. Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF.
• Leadership: Demonstrates strong sense of urgency to solving problems and getting deal done. Anticipate business and deal needs including the root cause of business challenges. Succinctly frames alternatives and next steps.
• Creativity: Able to work in and bring structure to ambiguous environments. Comfort in delivering multi-dimensional solutions that support decision-making processes.

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.

Visa welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.