Description
This is a fixed term contract until November 2027.
The Senior FP&A Manager will be a key member of the Visa Direct Network & Operations FP&A team, providing financial leadership, insight, and analytical support across revenue planning, forecasting, performance management, and client-level reporting.
The role will take ownership of the financial planning and reporting activities supporting both the Visa Direct Account (VDA), Visa Direct Wallet (VDW) and CurrencyCloud businesses, with a particular focus on CurrencyCloud revenue forecasting, transaction and foreign exchange volumes, client performance, month-end reporting, and data integrity.
Financial Planning and Forecasting
- Lead the revenue components of the Annual Operating Plan and quarterly Outlook processes for the relevant VDNO business areas.
- Develop robust revenue forecasts using client-level revenue, transaction volume, payment value, foreign exchange volume, sales pipeline, launch timing, and churn assumptions.
- Partner with regional FP&A teams to provide accurate and timely client-level revenue and volume information.
- Work with Sales and Account Management teams to understand expected client performance, new opportunities, implementation timelines, and emerging revenue risks.
- Produce forecasts for key revenue streams, including transactional revenue, FX Marketplace revenue, interest income, and payment transaction volumes.
- Maintain and enhance forecasting models, ensuring assumptions are transparent, appropriately documented, and supported by underlying data.
- Prepare clear commentary and presentation materials explaining forecast movements, assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
- Coordinate the loading of revenue forecasts into Oracle EPM and support restatement of the plan using updated constant-dollar exchange rates.
Month-End Revenue Performance and Reconciliation
- Own the month-end client revenue reconciliation following the financial close.
- Develop a complete view of revenue by client and revenue stream to support variance analysis against budget and forecast.
- Ensure revenue information is accurately loaded and available in the relevant reporting.
- Maintain a strong control environment around client-level revenue reporting, reconciliation, and data lineage.
Management Reporting and Business Performance
- Lead the preparation of FP&A revenue reporting and commentary for monthly flash and performance review processes.
- Provide regional FP&A teams with clear explanations of revenue performance and material variances.
- Produce and distribute client-level revenue reporting to support regional and central finance requirements.
- Translate complex revenue and operational data into concise, decision-relevant insights for senior finance and business stakeholders.
- Identify underlying performance drivers, distinguishing sustainable business trends from timing differences, manual adjustments, credits, reserves, and other one-off items.
AI: Data, Reporting, and Business Intelligence
- Leverage AI to enhance, simplify, automate, and improve the scalability existing processes for the production and distribution of recurring financial and operational reporting across the VDNO business.
- Maintain and enhance the existing reporting suites, with focus on customer/base activity, revenue, commissions, payment, collection, FX, client cash balance, and trade roll reporting.
- Partner with Data Insights and technology teams to test and implement improvements to revenue reporting.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.