Visa Hiring for Senior Financial Analyst Job at London, England Full Time

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 – 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 – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Visa is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Visa Europe’s Operating Certificate revenue team. Operating Certificates (Op Certs) are reports filed by our clients in the Financial Services industry on a quarterly basis. Visa uses the reports to calculate quarterly Service Fees and perform industry metric analysis. The Op Certs team is responsible for partnering and supporting clients on the Op Certs filing, analysing submitted data, and resolving reporting errors. We are also currently aligning our Global methodology and it is anticipated that this role will include a proportion of their time on driving Global alignment.

Job Description

• Perform in-depth analysis to ensure completeness and accuracy of data submitted by our clients, this includes client meetings to walkthrough current reporting processes
• Evaluate exceptions, identify trends, and summarize findings across clients and products
• Partner and support clients on noted exceptions to reduce error rate and improve submissions going forward
• Perform ongoing reviews of billing systems, processes, and controls through the interpretation of historical financial, operational and transactional data to mitigate the risks of potential billing errors
• Work closely with the Global Op Certs team in aligning review methodology, providing feedback and tracking actions to ensure that Global model works for Visa Europe
• Support Account Executives, Pricing Strategy and Deal team on ad-hoc data analysis and requests
• Identify low value operational processes and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency and productivity of overall Op Certs process
• Prepare statistical reports for publication as well as ad-hoc analyses and reports as needed
• Participate or lead Op Certs projects by proposing system design and functionality changes to achieve business objectives
• Participate in internal, external and self-assessment audits

Flex Work Arrangement – Hybrid Position – Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

• Qualified Accountant- ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA
• Understanding of financial and operational controls in a high-volume reporting environment, with high

reliance on IT systems, automated and manual controls

• Strong understanding of accounting standards
• Inquisitive and possess natural curiosity to challenge current practices
• Ability to dive deep into data, existing processes to identify issues and opportunities towards

improving end-to-end reporting

• Demonstrated experience in supporting continuous improvement of existing processes and controls

to achieve successful end-to-end reporting approach

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to communicate concisely and with

Finance and non-Finance stakeholders

• Intermediate Excel skills

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.