Senior Finance Manager GCC Visa

Key areas of responsibility:

• Volume trend and product mix analysis (International vs. Domestic)
• Production of key business drivers (e.g. volumes, transactions, etc.) to be used in strategic planning, annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting
• Proactive identification of development areas in designated markets, financial support of market development strategy
• Support in pricing and interchange related discussion concerning the covered markets, to include the impacts of both pricing and interchanges on client profitability
• Management of ad hoc/monthly/quarterly/yearly analysis of Market and Client trends to be used by the all supported departments and the GCM s

Incentive and Contracts:

• Responsible for deal modelling for clients in the covered markets and ensure it meets business needs and internal governance and compliance requirements (includes preparing the deal approval documents)
• Review incentive deal proposals with geo/functional teams and provide feedback where appropriate to optimize risk-adjusted returns. Provide recommendation to senior leadership team on their financial viability and execution risks.
• Detailed deal tracking for all executed deals in the covered markets, providing management with real time analysis on deals performance.
• Provides financial analysis for forecasting contra-revenues. Review and provide challenge to sales teams to obtain realistic projections for existing deals and new deals.
• Deal reforecasting on a monthly/quarterly basis and budget process
• Collaborate with other internal stakeholders (Legal, Client Contract Management, Controlling, etc) to ensure that the GCC client incentive contracts are executed in an efficient manner, properly accounted and meets internal governance and compliance requirements.

Support Expense Management:

• Proactive management of cross-functional & geography expense planning. Financial leadership in forecast and budget process for the markets, Tracking and monthly performance, understanding of variances.
• Advisory and guidance to cost center managers so they are informed of their approved budgets & forecasts and their commitment to budget/forecast on a continuous basis. To build and maintain relationships with cost center managers to ensure they are aware of budget forecasts timelines and data requirements
• Participation in continuous improvement activities to exceed customer expectations and promote a professional finance organization.