Financial Analyst needed at Visa

Job Description
Job Purpose:

• The Finance Analyst is responsible for the financial health of our operations in the Southern Africa cluster, while being based in Johannesburg Office. This role involves overseeing financial planning, financial analysis, and reporting, managing financial risks, and financial modelling and reviewing of client deals and business cases. The Finance Analyst will report to the SSA Head of Finance, to support Southern Africa and SSA overall business priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Management:

• Oversee the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting process for the Southern Africa cluster.
• Manage the budgeting and forecasting process for the Southern Africa cluster.
• Implement strategies to prevent and resolve bad debts.
• Provide basic support in the areas of revenue management and investment decision.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities to meet or exceed internal customers’ expectations.
• Revenue Analytics and Business Partnering:
• Lead the analysis of key business drivers for strategic planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting for the Southern Africa cluster.
• Actively engage in the modelling and review of client deals, ensuring accuracy and alignment with the company’s financial goals and strategies.
• Conduct Finance review of incentive contracts.

Compliance and Governance:

• Ensure deals and approval-to-spend requests are captured, recorded, summarized, and reported in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of all financial assumptions, results and data sources used.
• Provide guidance to business partners on their approved budgets and forecasts, and their commitment to budget/forecast on a continuous basis.

Relationship Management:

• Partner with business and regional teams to ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
• Demonstrate strong sense of urgency when preparing and evaluating multiple incentive deals, and proactively align priorities with Southern Africa Cluster Head on a weekly basis.
• Build and maintain relationships with finance business partners in SSA and CEMEA Hub, to ensure they are aware of the latest deals’ timelines and risks/opportunities.

Critical Success Factors in The Role:

The What:

• Deliver financial excellence and drive business growth in the Southern Africa cluster.
• Ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
• Maintain compliance with policies and procedures and reporting requirements.

The How:

• Enable each other to success: Work and win together with business stakeholders as partners and be a role model in removing barriers to getting work done.
• Deliver quickly and seamlessly: Plan carefully and execute successfully, to make it easier to get things done.
• Listen and learn from business stakeholders: Gain profound insights into her/his stakeholders’ needs to help them accomplish their objectives.
• 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
Leadership:

• 2 years of work experience in a multinational business environment and a bachelor’s degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA).
• Past experience in one of the following industries is highly desirable: Payment Technology, Consulting, FMCG, or Telecom.
• Proactive, high-energy, and motivated team player.
• Strong communication skills and creates deep relationships across the business and communicates effectively with executive management.
• Ability to work well under pressure, manage multiple priorities, communicate effectively with virtual teams while promoting a culture of openness, trust, and flexibility.

Technical:

• Degree in Accounting or professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent) is preferred.
• Strong FP&A skills: Experience in forecasting based on trends, historical data, and current market conditions. Proven ability to analyze financial data and succinctly summarize for non-Finance audience. Basic experience in working with financial models.
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required and experience in Power BI is desirable. IBM Cognos TM1 and Hyperion experience would be an advantage. Conceptual knowledge of financial databases is beneficial.

Business:

• Financial/commercial analysis/FP&A experience from within a large, multi-national, publicly traded corporation.
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, able to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses.
• Attentive to detail, highly organized, and focused on quality of output.