Sr. Financial Analyst

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**:
Global Controllership is responsible for establishing Visa’s global accounting policies, providing technical accounting guidance to the business, processing accounting transactions globally and consolidating all Visa entities financial results. The team is responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of the Visa Inc. financial statements under U.S. GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), and local statutory financial statements under IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards)

**What a Senior Financial Analyst does at Visa**:

- Manage the overall integration of the Visa entities in AP region
- Perform the accounting close process and ensure high quality accounting accuracy, timely and meaningful reporting, and compliance to US GAAP, SEC and SOX requirements.
- Lead the local statutory accounts preparation, audit to filing process, ensuring compliance, timeliness, efficiency and reconciliation with US GAAP numbers.
- Prepare monthly accounting journal entries and reconciliations
- Perform quarterly account reconciliations to ensure accurate reporting with no aged unreconciled accounts
- Provide flux analysis on balance sheet and income statement
- Manage cashflow which includes forecast, funding requests and intercompany transactions as well take on administrator role for the banking platform
- Support business units’ conduct of business transactions to ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, laws, policies and procedures.
- Work closely with the business, FPA, Operations Support and other stakeholders to influence and drive issue resolution and initiate changes to enhance internal control and efficiency
- Initiate and implement process changes to improve controls, work productivity or quality of work output.
- Lead or participate in projects as assigned

**Why this is important to Visa**:
Reporting into the Hub Accounting Director, this role will perform the accounting and financial controlling for the Visa entities in the Asia Pacific region, ensuring timely and accurate capture of financial information/output necessary for effective management decisions, and in compliance with US GAAP, local statutory laws and accounting standards, corporate policies/procedures and key controls. Additionally, you will help drive efficiencies and process improvements but not compromising on controls.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

**Qualifications**:
What you will need:

- Degree in Accounting, CPA or equivalent
- Minimum 8 years relevant accounting experience
- Familiar with US GAAP/IFRS and SEC requirements
- Strong analytical skills, accuracy, and attention to detail
- Effective written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively interact, verbally and in writing, with stakeholders
- Being able to prioritize multiple tasks with tight deadlines and other corporate demands.
- Challenges the challenge status quo and an advocate for change
- Prior experience on integration work
- Some knowledge of other finance functions e.g. Treasury, tax

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in Singapore are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.