Financial Analyst, Asia Pacific Controllership

Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

Job Description**
Team Summary**:
Managing Visa’s risk is everyone’s job every day. The Asia Pacific Operations Support team is formed to provide support to Business to ensure compliance with Visa’s policies and processes, to achieve a compliant and enhanced control environment.
**What a Financial Analyst does at Visa**:
The Business Analyst is a key member in the Asia Pacific Operations Support team. The role is responsible for working closely with Asia Pacific Operations Support team in ensuring business processes initiated across APAC are operated in an effective and compliant manner and are in adherence to established policies and procedures. The role works collaboratively with team members, Business Units (BU) and other control functions (especially Compliance, Legal, Sourcing) to implement and maintain a robust controls framework including remediation actions required.

This role reports to the Director for Asia Pacific Operations Support, and collaborates closely with Operations Support team members to maintain activities and processes that allow the BU to run effectively and efficiently by focusing on:

- Supporting the business with their respective business opportunities in providing commercial advice and of relevant policies and procedures.
- Implementing a continuously improving controls and process framework that complies with Visa policy and procedures.
- Develop remediation plans to address identified issues impacting the controls and processes environment.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide support to Asia Pacific Business Units (BU) in supporting business opportunities to achieve a positive outcome and ensuring compliance to policies and procedures.
Represent the voice of the business to ensure the needs of the business are represented in developing and delivering effective controls, processes and procedures.
- Liaise with controls units such as Sourcing, Compliance and Legal to implement and adhere to business procedures to ensure robust controls are in place
- Ensure consistency in AP wide approach to delivering guidelines to executing business in accordance to policies and procedures, including but not limited to the following:

- Assist BU to fulfill Supplier transactions such as raising Purchase Requisition, reviewing supporting documents submitted by BU and perform Receiving for BU in Ariba for monthly accruals and expensing
- Assist Business in reviewing contracts to ensure the business intent and commercial terms are clearly stated.
- Ensure due diligence are complete and accurate for contracts/work statements and fully signed documents (original copies) are filed with Legal team
- Review and approve VIK requests, contracts and associated purchase requisitions and escalate non-compliance issues to Financial Internal Controls’ team
- Facilitate prepayment approval requests so that approvals are obtained, prevent unnecessary upfront payments to suppliers and track approved prepayments
- Ensure proper account coding, especially in terms of Contra Revenue-versus-Opex account classification and prepayment accounting treatment
- Review supporting documents for Receiving in Oracle and perform Receiving for Business
- Ensure Pipeline (Project registration) report is updated so that each stage or tranche of every transaction is monitored and executed perfectly without violation to Visa’s policies and procedures, required supporting documents are filed in project folders for documentation purpose (as evidence of due diligence) and Purchase Orders closed in a timely manner
- Review progress and closure of projects to ensure transactions are properly closed in a timely manner by ensuring BU submit valid attestations that Visa’s obligations fully discharged and Business Partners’ obligations fully delivered
- Work closely with the APAC Operations Support team to ensure seamless execution of all projects

**Why this is important to Visa**:
As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and