Financial Analyst

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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The Financial analyst role reports to the Controllership Operations Support Sr Director for Latin America and the Caribbean and is responsible to assist Business Functions for  Central America and Dominican Republic markets, such as Marketing, VCA, Product Solutions, Sales, and other functional areas to manage high impact projects as Value-in-Kind, Prepayments, Sponsorship deals and other related initiatives for clients and cardholders to drive Visa revenue growth

Financial Analyst will also partner with other functional groups in providing guidance, as needed, on other transactions involving high risk areas such as travel, entertainment, events management, gifts and donations according to Visa's policies and procedures. 

The Financial Analyst is a key representative from the Controllership Group and will work with cross functional control groups (Compliance, Legal, Sourcing, Client Contract Management, and Continuous Control Monitoring) in building a strong control environment in the region and will perform a critical role in the identification, reporting and remediation of policies deviations within areas of scope.

This role is pivotal, and the individual must be a pro-active and confident communicator with a desire to add value at different levels of the organization. 

Responsibilities:

• Ensure a strong knowledge of Visa Key Policies and Procedures.
• Support Client and Vendor transactions for key business functions following Controllership Operations Model.
• Ensure High Risk projects and transactions meet established compliance requirements and approvals.
• Participate on Global and Regional workstreams related to standardization and process optimization.
• Provide oversight to Regional Controllership and Country Management on non-compliance issues.
  • Ensure timely self-reporting of incidents and non-compliance actions.
  • Demonstrate good judgement in determining when to escalate to the Management, or Controller on non-compliance issues and deviations,
  • Coordinate remediation of issues and compliance related matters promptly to avoid recurrent deviations.
• Support Internal Audit Engagements and Continuous Monitoring reviews

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

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting or Finance.

5 years of experience in a reporting audit, or risk related role focused on operational controls.

Good problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues and risks, including root cause analysis.

Ability to anticipate and identify opportunities to establish standards and controls, as well as develop and recommend solutions.

Self starter, must be able to execute work with minimal direct supervision.

Bilingual Spanish-English both written and verbal required. Portuguese is a plus.

Proficient in Excel and macros, Advanced skills in MS Office

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.