Visa Hiring for Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, CEMEA Job at Dubai Full Time

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Summary of the role

Working in a highly matrixed organization, reporting directly to Senior Director, CEMEA Sales and Marketing, you’ll have the opportunity to work and partner with various functions across CEMEA and Global and work closely with CEMEA VIK Champion/ CEMEA Head of VCA and CEMEA Head of Marketing.

This position plays a key role in driving the Value In Kind agenda in the region, a strong pillar of CEMEA strategy to diversify revenue through value added services. The role necessitates a highly analytical mind and a strong technical background of using business and finance tools. The role also requires flexibility in terms of supporting specials projects or covering other aspects of financial analysis as per business requirement

The role is responsible for all the aspects of financial planning, analysis and reporting. It is expected to create and maintain a high standard of financial discipline, business decision support, and accountability within the region. This role is also responsible for facilitating the development and delivery of the Budget, Forecast and Multi-Year Growth Plans for the function. S/He will work closely with the functional leadership to drive efficiencies, monitor resources utilization, support resources allocations and propose the right costing model as well as cross charging mechanism. This role manages the secondary P&L for the function and directly supports the sub regional team to deliver the growth strategies.

The role will design new processes and procedures and constantly enhance existing ones through innovation and simplification in alignment with business and international governance / compliance requirements while achieving strategic business and financial outcomes.

Keys area of responsibility:

• Own and orchestrate financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for VIK for CEMEA
• Coordinate inputs from the various, global, sub regions and functions for both Revenues and costs, plus lead the review and challenge process
• Focus on proactively communicating business implications observed from analysis, monitoring recent business trends to ensure forecast accuracy and clarity of calculations
• Produce final materials for executive management review and approval with best clarity, accuracy, and timeliness of analysis (MBR, QBR’s, etc)
• Simplify complex issues and structure analysis to answer business questions and communicate business implications from financial analysis at all levels
• Understanding of periodical financial results and highlight risk and opportunities and provide risk mitigation plans as well as ways to capture the opportunities
• Manage the Opex Budget and Headcount of the function
• Perform monthly close variance analysis with emphasis on communicating business implications
• Produce communication materials related to business and revenue performance for CEMEA management
• Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of results and data sources used
• Support VIK inventory analysis and projections. Analyze trends and make recommendations.
• Lead cash displacement reporting and analysis. Analyze trends and make recommendations.
• Handle all ad-hoc request in a timely and accurate manner

Critical Success Factors in the role:

• Solve unique and complex business issues by always being on top and understanding the impact of changes in the political, macro economical, regulatory and competitive landscape
• Ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity and ability to operate with limited guidance and work independently.
• Curious and can-do attitude
• At times, deliver on short notice ad-hoc requests. Ability to manage and prioritize work-load
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

Required Experience:

• 9+ years of mastery experience in Finance, financial reporting & analysis, revenue, forecasting, financial modelling
• Postgraduate degree from a top-tier school, preferably Finance and Accounting, MBA is beneficial
• Project Management skills
• Expert skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint. Hyperion and TM1 experience is an advantage
• Payment industry experience is nice to have
• Ability to influence peers and other teams to drive outcome
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills; can-do attitude to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to clearly communicate results with senior level executives and able to influence decision making
• Able to work cross functionally, geographically and with virtual teams while promoting a culture of openness, trust and flexibility
• Must be proactive, high-energy, motivated team player capable of delivering on multiple initiatives on tight timelines

Leadership skills:

• Be a trusted and strategic advisor to Functional Heads;
• Provide guidance to all business partners on matters of AOP, Budgets, tracking, reporting and analytics
• Engage team members in Finance to develop analytics and deliver information in a format that adds value to the business.

Additional Information

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.