Senior Financial Analyst(Exp in SQL, PowerBi, Python is must have, along with GenAI skills)

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.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

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Team Summary

Global Controllership is responsible for establishing Visa’s global accounting policies, providing technical guidance to the business, processing accounting transactions globally, and consolidating all Visa entities’ financial results.

 

The Controllership Data and Process Excellence (CDPE) team designs and builds critical tools, advances capabilities and innovation of business intelligence and automates business processes for the Controllership functions. Along with enhancing the tools and control processes, we aim to promote data governance, process efficiency, and reporting accuracy within Global Controllership.

 

What a Senior Finance Data and Process Analyst does at Visa?

CDPE is seeking an experienced analyst to enhance and create efficient tools and applications for optimum data and process efficiency across Controllership functions.

 

Essential Functions:

Enable Automated Self-Service Reporting:

• Empower leadership with self-service reporting to track KPIs and steer business decision-making through insight-based, forward-looking dashboards
• Build and optimize data pipelines by harmonizing data from multiple finance and operational systems with varying structures and formats.
• Develop and maintain data models and pipelines to provide actionable insights and support strategic decision making.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities on existing processes

Champion Process Excellence and Data Governance:

• Shape and steer internal procedures, promoting best practices for data quality, documentation, version control, and sustainable analytics solutions.
• Enhance current data analytics tools and platforms to facilitate user-driven analysis and business decision-making
• Identify potential business risk areas and propose data governance and process controls for robust error detection and prevention

Leverage GenAI & Advanced Analytics

• Leverage GenAI to optimize business operations and provide support in implementing GenAI tools for finance teams
• Support CDPE Leadership in building strong AI processes and data governance.

Stakeholder Communication

• Communicate findings, risks, and recommendations through clear presentations, dashboards, and written narratives.
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to building a strong analytics and innovation culture within the team.

 

Why is the role important to Visa:

The Controllership function in Visa is responsible for financial risk and controls management across Visa’s businesses, allowing businesses to be conducted in a safe and sustainable manner. The CDPE team plays a vital role in generating reports, tools and analytics to communicate, measure and mitigate risks across Visa’s business lines.

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

Basic Qualifications:

6 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

7 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 6 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) 

Bachelor’s degree in finance, business analytics or equivalent, with 6+ years of experience in a data-driven role

Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerQuery and Python in a data-driven environment

Experience in integrating Generative AI or advanced analytics techniques into workflows.

Experience with SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis

Demonstrated experience in designing and building dashboards for a broad audience in Power BI

Proficient in data analytics – Analyzing voluminous data, designing and optimizing data processing pipelines, and aggregating multiple data sources

Strong communication, presentation and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and accuracy

What will also help:

Major/specialization in Data Analytics

Experience in accounting, budgeting, or controllership will be an added advantage

Experienced in using SharePoint for MS automated workflows, including PowerAutomate and PowerApps

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with practical experience in financial or statistical modelling and quantitative analysis of large datasets

Self-starter who can responsibly advance and influence work without direct authority, and is comfortable making sound, well-informed judgement calls for progress

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.