What a Senior Financial Analyst does at Visa:
- Support the budgeting, forecasting and multi-year planning process for the Business Function teams in AP. Provide guidance to Business Functions to achieve realistic and timely forecasts. Support the business and finance teams in the preparation of budget and forecast reports to support management review of financial outcomes
- Review forecast and budget submissions and perform an independent challenge to improve accuracy of forecasts. Analyze spending trends and recommend to Finance management a handicap to forecasts if required.
- Provide advisory and consultative support to Business Function teams on finance related areas and bring financial discipline in investment decisions
- Maintain templates to track Value Added Services. Prepare reports to evaluate business performance to forecast and budgets
- Build financial models and provide projections using historical data, industry assumptions and metrics. Prepare ad hoc business cases & analysis
- Acquire and maintain a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities, and issues related to the assigned functional areas
- Collaborates easily and successfully with all levels of management in a matrix organization structure
- Establishes and maintains relationships with key stakeholders (i.e. executives and staff) and serves as a key point of contact for finance issues
- Thrives on an environment that is fast paced, rapidly changing, and customer service oriented
