Head of Finance Andean

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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This is a unique opportunity and calls for an ambitious, hard-working, highly analytical Finance professional. The Head of Fiannce for Andean is key in driving full financial support, guidance and performance to the Andean Region supporting strategic deals & projects and providing Budget/Forecast/Multiyear projections enhancing accountability through full P&L ownership/responsibility. This position provides business support to Andean Leadership Team and collaborates with stakeholders across the business to identify opportunities to achieve strategic and financial goals.

Responsibilities include,

• Lead the financial support for the region, providing strategic guidance, driving overall performance and appropriate resource allocation
• Execute Country Plan by means of thoughtful analysis of market developments and impact of key strategies to be implemented in market
• Partner with Business Functions to actively support and facilitate strategic deals & projects focused on overall quality improvements, strategic goals and optimized financial outcomes
• Lead and/or participate in profitability projects that impact current and future business models and/or pricing structure including in-depth analysis of investment proposals, reasonableness of assumptions/impacts and ability to discuss and challenge these assumptions as well as conduct detailed post-mortem analysis
• Lead executive financial presentations sharing insights and recommendations to better support the Andean Leadership team to manage the business and drive right decision
• Partner with global, regional and country counterparts to develop and manage region Budget/Forecast/Multiyear processes for revenues, revenue drivers, investments and headcount, which requires in-depth knowledge and analysis of the business and market conditions
• Timely provide revenue and investment variations against budget, forecast and prior year using various statistical, trend, seasonality and business logic analysis
• Review and analyze revenue drivers by Country, Client and Product, Pricing Impacts, impacts of Foreign Exchange rate fluctuations which require in-depth knowledge of the Visa Business
• Through solid logical construction, support the storyboarding of analytical output and production of communication materials for the regional financial presentations

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. 

• 15+ years of work experience, at least 3 years in leadership role
• Bachelor's degree in finance, engineering, accounting, mathematics, economics, or related quantitative field, MBA a plus
• Excellent business acumen, multi-functional business experience a plus
• Exceptional report modeling and data management skills with the ability to work with large amounts of data and organize in a logical and efficient manner using various reporting and analytical tools
• Demonstrated program leadership capabilities to drive key financial processes
• Outstanding modeling, analytical and quantitative skills, able to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
• Experience/exposure to multiple Latin American and Caribbean countries and macro environments
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences
• Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to engage across cultures, language and time zones across various mediums and ability to travel as needed
• Fluency in English and Spanish required

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.