Financial Analyst at Visa

Job Description

Key Geographical Responsibilities

• Support and be an active member of the SSA Controllership function helping to drive the controllership strategy and vision.
• Support the region to build a strong governance culture and promote a strong control environment.
• Ensure transactions are captured, recorded, summarized, and reported in compliance with policies & procedures, US GAAP, IFRS, as well as statutory, corporate and tax requirements, as applicable.
• Ensure timely filing of accurate local statutory financial statements ensuring compliance with local GAAP. Ensure consistent treatment in line with Global policies.  This includes knowledge and reconciliation of US to Local GAAP differences.
• Ensure timely filing of accurate indirect and direct tax returns, VAT, WHT, CIT etc.
• Work closely with SSA Controller as well as other team members in the Controllership space to assess requirements for change in processes and procedures. Initiate and propose procedural changes to enhance data quality and process flows.
• Partner with the business functions and stakeholders in your sub-region ensuring successful business results are driven in full compliance with company policy, support in implementation and monitoring of policies and procedures.
• Be the main finance point of contact for both internal and external auditors, manage and coordinate the flow of information.
• Help drive efficiency through automation of business processes while leveraging Visa’s fully integrated accounting system and other.
• Participate in projects aligned with the company’s strategy.
• Assess financial and non-financial impact of changes to accounting policies processes and other procedures applicable for the business.
• Analyze business transactions to detect anomalies and non-compliances. Investigate report and assist the business units to remediate issues and implement effective controls to avoid re-occurrence.
• Perform regular training on key policies and procedures to maintain an effective control environment.

Key Results

• Ensure accurate and timely completion for the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes.
• Maintain accurate accounting records – compliant with corporate policies, GAAP, SEC, and SOX.
• Effective partnership with business leads to drive successful and compliant business in SSA.
• Good understanding of process workflow to define/solve problems and issues and to identify key controls.
• Effective communication with stakeholders to ensure consistent application of policies and procedures.
• Excellent project management skills to drive various projects to completion with minimal supervision.
• Ensure presence of effective controls
• Timely resolution and non-recurrence of audit issues.
• Timely and effective implementation of assigned projects/duties.

 Decision Making

• Make decisions on appropriate accounting treatment for transactions in compliance with published policies and guidelines.
• Prioritize tasks within job and function balancing the need to meet tight deadlines and other corporate demands.
• Identify and suggest process changes to improve controls, productivity, or quality of work output.
• Exercise good judgment to escalate issues to SSA Controller along with recommended solution to resolve.
• Liaise and respond to queries from internal / external auditors, tax authorities and other finance teams with recommendations on action plans to resolve detected discrepancies.

Qualifications

Qualifications Professional

• Degree in Accounting or professional accounting qualification, ACA, ACCA CPA or equivalent
• 5 years of relevant accounting and controls related experience, ideally in a multi-national company
• Hands on experience with US GAAP/IFRS and statutory requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to work well in a fast paced and high-volume environment
• Exposure to internal audit or internal controls environment
• Experience in a Big 4 public accounting firm is a strong advantage

Technical

• Strong technical accounting skills, and experience researching and documenting accounting issues
• Knowledge and Experience of controls and risk management
• Knowledge and experience in SOX with ability to design process flows and draft policies
• Proficiency with Microsoft office applications – Excel, Word, Visio
• Knowledge and hands-on experience of Oracle, Ariba, Hyperion and other related tools

Business

• Strong business ethics
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Solution orientated thinker / problem solver
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple priorities
• Adaptable to change