Job Description

Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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. When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging \xe2\x80\x93 where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world \xe2\x80\x93 helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement. Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.


Team Summary Global Controllership is responsible for establishing Visa\xe2\x80\x99s global accounting policies, providing technical accounting guidance to the business, processing accounting transactions globally and consolidating all Visa entities financial results. The team is responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of the Visa Inc. financial statements under U.S. GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), and local statutory financial statements under IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) What a Finance Manager does at Visa:

• Hiring, training, motivating, supervising, and evaluating staff members
• Manage payables review and close activities within Asia Pacific region
• Develop advanced tools and implement process improvements to facilitate reviews, enforce controls and automate reporting across Accounts Payable processes
• Advance the use of data analytics on processes including:
  • Reviews and approvals of all invoices, payments, and other payable activities within defined SLA for a portfolio of geographic countries and ensure high quality accuracy, timeliness, efficiency, and compliance to US GAAP, SEC, and SOX requirements
  • Reviews on aged analysis on payable control and T&E transactions account
  • Monitoring of invoice, payments, and T&E related issues, and implement effective controls to avoid re-occurrence.
• Develop and maintain SOPs with appropriate communication to ensure employees understand the standardized process
• Implement process to ensure company employees adhere to the Corporate Travel Policy, with standardized process for reporting for non- compliance
• Prioritize tasks within job function balancing the need to meet tight deadlines and other corporate demands.
• Support and coordinate statutory and global audit processes for T&E and Accounts Payable areas

People partnership:

• Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Support business units\xe2\x80\x99 conduct of business transactions to ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, laws, policies, and procedures.
• Deliver strong customer service and support, demonstrate initiative in providing resolution and initiate changes to enhance internal control and efficiency to remediate

Project leading:

• Lead regional projects and streamlining initiatives, Drive best-in-class practices
• Work closely with the Senior Manager, T&E and Accounts Payable global and regional leads to drive a consistent and common approach
• Recommend, implement, and maintain process improvements using robust continuous improvement principles such as Lean and Six Sigma
• Initiate and implement process changes to improve controls, work productivity or quality of work output.
• Recommends possible policy modifications and process changes to reduce financial and other related risks.

Reporting and data analytics:

• Collaborate with the Asia Pacific Controllership Data Analytics team to identify opportunities for automation and develop tools for reporting, analytics, and controls across regional and country teams
• Build up a pipeline of key metrics and KPIs for expense reporting, card program administration and other accounts payable metrics
• Support the creation of a balanced scorecard framework to measure and communicate results for processes across Accounts Payable through automated visualization tools

Why this is important to Visa The finance manager is to provide strong leadership to our accounts payable and T&E department and to ensure that the department runs smoothly. To succeed, you should be focused on being a change agent, optimizing department processes and building lasting relationships with others within and outside of the business. You should be knowledgeable, analytical, and decisive with excellent leadership and communication skills. Provide regional expertise support and manage teams across countries. Demonstrate a transformation mindset and effectively drive changes in modelling, processes, and people. Constantly challenge status quo and be a change agent with the objective of driving for efficiencies but not compromising on controls. This role will report to the Accounts Payable Senior Manager. The role will be open in Bangalore, India. This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in accounting, finance or equivalent
• Minimum 12 years relevant accounting experience
• Concur and Oracle Experience a must
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with experience in PowerQuery preferred
• Experience with data visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to effectively interact, verbally and in writing, with stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
• Familiar with US GAAP/IFRS and SEC requirements
• Experience in project, and transition management
• Shared service or center of excellence experience

Additional Information

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.