Vice President, Finance for Marketing & Communications

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Company: Visa
Location: Foster City, CA 94404

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Job Description


Position Summary:

This opportunity calls for a strategic and collaborative Finance professional who will be the lead financial partner for Visa’s Marketing & Communications organization. The Finance VP will be responsible for leading financial planning and analysis, providing broad decision support analytics, identifying and evaluating investment and efficiency opportunities, and proactively managing expenses for Marketing & Communications. This highly visible role includes frequent interaction with the Marketing & Communications Leadership Team (MCLT), the broader finance organization, and other key internal stakeholders.


Responsibilities include:

Provide proactive analytical insight to the CMCO and MCLT

  • Provide analysis and strategic advice as a trusted business partner to the CMCO and MCLT

  • Develop robust business cases for global marketing investments

  • Partner with Marketing Analytics and Strategy & Planning teams to evaluate results of marketing investments

  • Develop analytical approach to size appropriate level of marketing investment

  • Lead analysis to deliver insights about financial performance and develop solutions to ensure Marketing & Communications meets financial commitments

  • Play a lead role in the development of Marketing Services business, including developing pricing strategy and tools, implementing pipeline tracking, and identifying margin expansion strategies

  • Partner with Strategic Sourcing and the Agency Center of Excellence to identify, evaluate, and measure opportunities to improve efficiency

    Lead financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting for Marketing & Communications

  • Establish efficient processes to provide actionable monthly and quarterly reporting and ensure accountability

  • Lead forecast and budget processes that support effective decision-making

  • Simplify and automate processes

  • Develop tools to enable dynamic decision making to optimize marketing spend across quarters

Collaborate with regional teams to drive marketing decisions and results

  • Provide a consolidated point of view on Marketing & Communications globally

  • Lead community of regional Finance counterparts and Marketing Strategy & Planning teams to ensure alignment on forecasts, budgets, and actual results

  • Coordinate and manage analytical requests with other global and regional functions

Lead high-performing team

  • Attract, recruit, and retain top talent into the Finance organization

  • Mentor and manage a team of six

  • Contribute active leadership to the broader Finance organization

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

  • 12 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

Financial Leadership

  • Drives sound decision-making through effective forecasting, reporting, and analysis of results and business drivers

  • Expert at structuring, managing, and communicating complex analysis, working across functions and with multiple stakeholders

  • Drives an efficient and effective process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives

  • Creates meaningful and actionable performance metrics to drive accountability and ownership

  • Ensures the highest level of effectiveness and continued skill development of the FP&A team

Professional

  • MBA or relevant graduate degree from top-tier institution or similar academic experience

  • 15+ years of financial experience with 4-5 years’ experience in top tier strategy consulting or corporate strategic planning preferred

  • Experience with global marketing organizations strongly preferred

  • Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor

  • Ability to adapt to a dynamic, rapidly changing business environment

  • Advanced level of Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint required

  • Travel to multiple facilities and global locations may be required

Business Leadership

  • Strong executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior executives

  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a “peer” with marketing leaders and Finance colleagues

  • Superior strategic thought leadership

  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence successfully within a highly matrixed organization

  • Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across a breadth of stakeholders.

  • Collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities

Team Leadership

  • 8+ years’ experience in leading and managing a globally matrixed team

  • Committed to developing a team and building a strong succession pipeline for the future

  • Demonstrated ability to inspire a team with a strategic vision

  • Ability to be an effective coach and have challenging employee conversations when necessary

Additional Information

Travel Requirements
This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, and reach with hands and arms.

EEO Statement
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.