Financial Analyst at Visa

Financial Management:

• Oversee the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting process for the Central and Coastal Southern Africa clusters.
• Manage the budgeting and forecasting process for the Central and Coastal Southern Africa cluster.
• Implement strategies to prevent and resolve bad debts.
• Provide basic support in the areas of revenue management and investment decision.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities to meet or exceed internal customers’ expectations.

Revenue Analytics and Business Partnering:

• Lead the analysis of key business drivers for strategic planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting for the Central and Coastal Southern Africa cluster.
• Actively engage in the modelling and review of client deals, ensuring accuracy and alignment with the company's financial goals and strategies.
• Conduct Finance review of incentive contracts.

Compliance and Governance:

• Ensure deals and approval-to-spend requests are captured, recorded, summarized, and reported in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of all financial assumptions, results and data sources used.
• Provide guidance to business partners on their approved budgets and forecasts, and their commitment to budget/forecast on a continuous basis.

Relationship Management:

• Partner with business and regional teams to ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
• Demonstrate strong sense of urgency when preparing and evaluating multiple incentive deals, and proactively align priorities with Central and Coastal Southern Africa Cluster Head on a weekly basis.
• Build and maintain relationships with finance business partners in SSA and CEMEA Hub, to ensure they are aware of the latest deals’ timelines and risks/opportunities.

Critical Success Factors in The Role:

The What:

• Deliver financial excellence and drive business growth in the Central and Coastal Southern Africa cluster.
• Ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
• Maintain compliance with policies and procedures and reporting requirements.

The How:

• Enable each other to success: Work and win together with business stakeholders as partners and be a role model in removing barriers to getting work done.
• Deliver quickly and seamlessly: Plan carefully and execute successfully, to make it easier to get things done.
• Listen and learn from business stakeholders: Gain profound insights into her/his stakeholders’ needs to help them accomplish their objectives.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications
Leadership:

• 2 years of work experience in a multinational business environment and a bachelor’s degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA).
• Past experience in one of the following industries is highly desirable: Payment Technology, Consulting, FMCG, or Telecom.
• Proactive, high-energy, and motivated team player.
• Strong communication skills and creates deep relationships across the business and communicates effectively with executive management.
• Ability to work well under pressure, manage multiple priorities, communicate effectively with virtual teams while promoting a culture of openness, trust, and flexibility.