Senior Director, Strategic Finance & Analytics

Visa; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 382,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa's Strategic Finance team seeks a Senior Director with a strong quantitative background to support the President, CFO, CEO, and senior leaders. Based in San Francisco or Foster City, you will lead analytics shaping strategy, earnings communications, and competitive insights.

You will design executive-level presentations, mentor a small team, and drive process improvements across data and tooling while leveraging deep knowledge of Visa's business and the payments industry.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of work experience with a Bachelor's, or 10+ years with an Advanced degree.
• MBA and/or CFA preferred.
• Experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance or analytical roles in data-intensive industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead quantitative analysis on Visa's business drivers to provide proactive insights that shape internal and external communication on Visa's performance and drive decision making
• Assess macro and micro trends affecting Visa's business model and develop analytics to identify their impact on drivers and financial results
• Develop executive-level presentations and prepare the President's presentations to internal and external audiences including the Board of Directors
• Structure approaches to evaluate competitors' financial performance and provide fact-based understanding of the competitive landscape to executive leadership
• Lead and manage a small team of outstanding individuals
• Identify opportunities to constantly improve, streamline, and automate various areas of the team's responsibility and develop new processes and tools
• Build strong knowledge of Visa's business through constant communication with top finance and business leaders

Skills

Financial analysis

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Quantitative skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, engineering, mathematics or related quantitative field

MBA or CFA preferred

10-20 years of relevant financial analysis work experience

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Visa's Strategic Finance team seeks a Senior Director with a strong quantitative background to support the President, CFO, CEO, and senior leaders. Based in San Francisco or Foster City, you will lead analytics shaping strategy, earnings communications, and competitive insights.

You will design executive-level presentations, mentor a small team, and drive process improvements across data and tooling while leveraging deep knowledge of Visa's business and the payments industry.