Financial Analyst, Resource-Led Planning CoE

Visa; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Financial Analyst, Resource-Led Planning CoE in Austin, TX. The role blends FP&A with workforce planning and transformation activities to enable better forecasting, reporting, and governance across finance teams.

You will partner with Finance, Workforce Planning, People Team, and Tech groups to drive integrated headcount planning, analytics, and process improvements that improve planning accuracy and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of work experience in financial planning, analysis, or control functions.
• Experience in conducting technical financial analysis and presenting financial recommendations.
• Experience interpreting governmental requirements for financial operations.

Responsibilities

• Support workforce planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics across enterprise planning cycles.
• Deliver reporting, dashboards, and insights to inform workforce investment decisions.
• Analyze workforce trends, forecasts, variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Support governance, data quality, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner cross-functionally to enhance planning processes and decision support.

Skills

Financial planning & analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Advanced degree (MBA/JD/MD/PhD)

Tools

Financial modeling

Job description

About Us

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

Our Finance Velocity Office was designed to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function. This function is shaping our transformation strategy, improving our business operations, and enhancing the impact we make as a function. Why Velocity? Velocity is about both speed and strategy, focused on accelerating in a given direction. We will hone our approach, think big and decide quickly while living our Leadership Principles. This dedicated team is helping drive global consistency and operate as one team to build a foundation that supports the growth and complexity of our business while improving the day-to-day interactions of Finance teams.

The Financial Analyst, Resource-Led Planning CoE, will support enterprise workforce planning capabilities through financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, governance, and planning transformation initiatives. This role will partner across Finance, Workforce Planning, People Team, Finance Systems, Analytics, and Technology teams to support integrated headcount planning, workforce planning analytics, reporting, and process improvements that enable more informed workforce and investment decisions.

This position combines traditional FP&A responsibilities with workforce planning and planning transformation activities. The successful candidate will support workforce forecasting, reporting and analytics, planning-cycle execution, data governance initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts that enhance planning accuracy, transparency, and operational efficiency.

The role offers an opportunity to contribute to one of Finance's key transformation priorities while building expertise across workforce planning, analytics, reporting, governance, and enterprise planning processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Support workforce planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics across enterprise planning cycles.
• Deliver reporting, dashboards, and insights to support workforce investment and planning decisions.
• Analyze workforce trends, forecasts, variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Support governance, data quality, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner cross-functionally to enhance planning processes, reporting capabilities, and decision support.
• Contribute to planning transformation, automation, and planning system enhancement initiatives.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD).
• Experience in financial planning, analysis, or control functions.
• Experience in conducting technical financial analysis.
• Experience in preparing and summarizing financial recommendations.
• Experience in economic research and studies.
• Experience in interpreting governmental requirements for financial operations.
• Experience in working with financial concepts and models.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
• Experience in acquisition activity analysis.
• Experience in investment performance evaluation.
• Experience in working with rates of return and depreciation models.
• Experience in preparing operating forecasts and trended future requirements.

Location

This role is a Hybrid position to be located in our Austin, TX office location. Expectations will be 3 days in office to be aligned with the candidate and hiring manager.

Information for US Applicants

For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $89,200.00 to $ 138,600.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Work Hours

Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements

This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equip