Senior Finance Manager - 12 month FTC

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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.

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Job Description

This is a fixed term contract until November 2027

The Senior Finance Manager will be a key member of the Visa Direct Network & Operations FP&A team, providing financial leadership, insight, and analytical support across revenue planning, forecasting, performance management, and client-level reporting.

The role will take ownership of the financial planning and reporting activities supporting both the Visa Direct Account (VDA), Visa Direct Wallet (VDW) and CurrencyCloud businesses, with a particular focus on CurrencyCloud revenue forecasting, transaction and foreign exchange volumes, client performance, month-end reporting, and data integrity. You will partner closely with regional FP&A, Sales, Account Management, Revenue Operations, and Data Insights teams to improve financial visibility, explain performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support informed decision-making.

This is a hands-on role that combines commercial finance partnering with detailed financial analysis, systems expertise, and reporting transformation.

Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Lead the revenue components of the Annual Operating Plan and quarterly Outlook processes for the relevant VDNO business areas.
• Develop robust revenue forecasts using client-level revenue, transaction volume, payment value, foreign exchange volume, sales pipeline, launch timing, and churn assumptions.
• Partner with regional FP&A teams to provide accurate and timely client-level revenue and volume information.
• Work with Sales and Account Management teams to understand expected client performance, new opportunities, implementation timelines, and emerging revenue risks.
• Produce forecasts for key revenue streams, including transactional revenue, FX Marketplace revenue, interest income, and payment transaction volumes.
• Maintain and enhance forecasting models, ensuring assumptions are transparent, appropriately documented, and supported by underlying data.
• Prepare clear commentary and presentation materials explaining forecast movements, assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
• Coordinate the loading of revenue forecasts into Oracle EPM and support restatement of the plan using updated constant-dollar exchange rates.

Month-End Revenue Performance and Reconciliation

• Own the month-end client revenue reconciliation following the financial close.
• Develop a complete view of revenue by client and revenue stream to support variance analysis against budget and forecast.
• Ensure revenue information is accurately loaded and available in the relevant reporting.
• Maintain a strong control environment around client-level revenue reporting, reconciliation, and data lineage.

Management Reporting and Business Performance

• Lead the preparation of FP&A revenue reporting and commentary for monthly flash and performance review processes.
• Provide regional FP&A teams with clear explanations of revenue performance and material variances.
• Produce and distribute client-level revenue reporting to support regional and central finance requirements.
• Translate complex revenue and operational data into concise, decision-relevant insights for senior finance and business stakeholders.
• Identify underlying performance drivers, distinguishing sustainable business trends from timing differences, manual adjustments, credits, reserves, and other one-off items.

AI: Data, Reporting, and Business Intelligence

• Leverage AI to enhance, simplify, automate, and improve the scalability existing processes for the production and distribution of recurring financial and operational reporting across the VDNO business
• Maintain and enhance the existing reporting suites, with focus on customer/base activity, revenue, commissions, payment, collection, FX, client cash balance, and trade roll reporting.
• Partner with Data Insights and technology teams to test and implement improvements to revenue reporting.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

• Graduate, undergraduate degree and/or other Finance-related professionally recognized accreditations (e.g. CIMA, ACA, ACCA)
• Professional finance experience, preferably in global publicly listed, government regulated payments company

• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, can-do attitude to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses

• Strong interest and experience in AI and agentic solutions

• Highly strategic combined with a strong business acumen

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to be able to “connect the dots” and approach issue resolution with a “forward-looking” view to anticipate and address problems.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including excellent written, oral, listening and presentational skills and ability to work well under pressure and interact at all levels as a thought-partner.

• Capable of handling and prioritizing multiple tasks, possess good judgment and organizational skills, able to work independently and be flexible.

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.