Finance Manager

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 09-04-2026

Job Description

Visa is seeking a Finance Manager to support the Value Added Services (VAS) organization across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This role will serve as a finance partner to business leaders, providing financial planning, performance management, investment analysis, and decision support to help drive long-term value creation. The ideal candidate combines strong financial discipline with commercial acumen and supports the business beyond traditional reporting through insights, recommendations, and cross-functional partnership. This role helps enable data-driven decision-making, strengthen controllership and governance, improve operating mechanisms, and drive simplification and automation across finance processes.
 

The Finance Manager will work closely with regional, global, and in-market stakeholders to support business planning, commercial initiatives, business case evaluation, and resource prioritization across a dynamic and fast-growing portfolio. Success in this role requires analytical rigor, strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate financial results into clear business insights.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, month-end close support, and long-range planning for the VAS organization across LAC.
• Provide end-to-end financial analysis on revenue, investments, headcount, and operating expenses, identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Partner with business leaders to evaluate investment decisions, commercial initiatives, and strategic priorities, delivering actionable insights and recommendations.
• Monitor business performance through variance analysis, scenario modeling, productivity tracking, and ROI assessment, clearly articulating implications to leadership.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level reporting packages, dashboards, and presentations that translate complex financial results into clear business narratives.
• Strengthen controllership and governance by ensuring accurate financial reporting, policy compliance, audit readiness, and adherence to internal controls.
• Partner with controllership, billing, finance operations, and cross-functional teams to support timely revenue recognition, reconciliation, billing accuracy, and close processes.
• Drive continuous improvement by simplifying, automating, and standardizing reports, models, and planning mechanisms across teams.
• Align stakeholders on metric definitions, KPIs, and reporting logic to improve consistency, transparency, and decision-making.
• Support a predictable business cadence through effective planning forums, post-mortems, and cross-functional operating mechanisms.
• Help build stronger financial acumen across business partners by promoting knowledge sharing, clear frameworks, and insight-driven discussions

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA,  JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• 7+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 5+ years with an advanced degree, or 2+ years with a PhD.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or at least 4 years with an advanced degree (e.g., MBA, Master’s), or 1 year with a PhD.
• Proven experience in financial analysis, modeling, and business decision support.
• Strong background in interpreting accounting and financial data to guide business decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines in a fast-paced global matrix environment.
• Strong command of financial and business performance data, with the ability to distill complex issues into clear, actionable insights.
• Hands-on approach with high attention to detail and commitment to excellence.
• Prior experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, or strategic finance.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, business performance analytics, and working with cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with complex financial systems such as Hyperion or TM1 is a plus.
• Ability to improve processes and systems to balance short- and long-term growth objectives.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to operate effectively in a matrix environment.
• Proven expertise in managing and analyzing large datasets.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel for financial modeling and PowerPoint for executive presentations.
• Analytical, critical thinking, and project management skills, with the ability to connect disparate data points into a clear business narrative.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills to engage and influence business partners and senior leadership.
• Strategic and analytical thinker able to navigate complex problems and ambiguous situations, making fact-based recommendations.
• Collaborative, diplomatic, and adaptable, with the ability to work across global and regional teams.
• Ability to speak Spanish and/or Portuguese.

Information for US Applicants

For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $109.800,00 to $ 175.700,00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Work Hours

Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements

This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/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.

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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.