Finance Business Partner

TN Germany; Frankfurt; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading company in the finance sector is seeking a Finance Team member for the Central Europe cluster. This hybrid role involves supporting Account Executives in preparing investment proposals and pricing packages while ensuring financial integrity and analyzing client profitability. The ideal candidate will have strong commercial acumen and excellent analytical skills, with a focus on building relationships with stakeholders.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in business partnering with increasing responsibilities.
• Ability to build effective relationships with senior executives.

Aufgaben

• Ensure robust investment proposals and pricing packages.
• Support review of deal and scenario modeling.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis on deals, clients, markets, and competition.

Kenntnisse

Fluency in English

Commercial focus

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership skills

Proactive self-starter

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in business

MBA

Tools

R

Python

SQL

Microsoft Office

Jobbeschreibung

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The Central Europe Finance Team, part of Europe, provides financial planning, analysis, and decision support to Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Austria. We serve as the liaison for finance activities and insights related to these areas.

2024 will be a critical and exciting year for the team, as Central Europe executes its strategy to grow its business, launch new products, decrease cash penetration by accelerating the shift to ecommerce, and increase demand for contactless payments.

This role is responsible for ensuring Account Executives prepare robust investment proposals and pricing packages to be offered by Visa Europe to new and existing customers in the cluster. The role involves anticipating issues with proposals, ensuring sound assumptions, and engaging directly with clients when necessary to clarify requirements. The person will communicate complex client requirements, portfolio analysis, and summary findings to stakeholders across the Cluster, Region, and HQ.

This hands-on role requires strong commercial acumen and a willingness to challenge the status quo to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and performance.

The role holder will be a member of the Finance Team for the CE cluster.

What we expect of you

1. Apply knowledge of market financials and client economics to deal negotiations.
2. Help develop and prepare commercial terms and input assumptions.
3. Support review of deal and scenario modeling.
4. Provide commercial challenge to AE sales teams and explore new financial incentive structures.
5. Support and develop AEs' knowledge of deal financials.
6. Ensure the financial integrity of contracts.
7. Support CIA accounting, incentive forecasts, actuals, and budgets, including variance comments.
8. Track deal performance and organize timely payments to clients.
9. Understand and analyze client profitability and deal performance.
10. Provide ad-hoc analysis on deals, clients, markets, and competition.

This is a hybrid position. Employees can alternate between remote work and the office, typically working 2-3 days a week on-site, with a general expectation of being in the office at least 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

What we are after…

• Fluency in English; German is a plus.
• Experience in business partnering with increasing responsibilities.
• Ability to build effective relationships with senior executives and stakeholders at regional and global levels.
• Experience in deal structuring and modeling.
• Strong commercial focus with a proven record of analyzing business performance, identifying trends, and challenging norms.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret trends, identify issues, and recommend actions.
• Data analytics experience and familiarity with tools like R, Python, SQL is desirable.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility with business leaders.
• Team-oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills.
• Proactive self-starter.
• Experience with finance systems and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, or a related field; MBA is preferred.
• Broad understanding of the payment landscape and VISA products is a plus.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Visa also considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with EEOC guidelines and applicable laws.