Business Consultant

Visa

Business Consultant

San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Our Finance Velocity Office was designed to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function. This function is shaping our transformation strategy, improving our business operations and enhancing the impact we make as a function. Why velocity? Velocity is about both speed and strategy, focused on accelerating in a given direction. We will hone our approach, think big and decide quickly, living our Leadership Principles. This team is driving global consistency and operate as one team to:

    • Build a foundation that supports the growth and complexity of our business and improves the day-to-day interactions of our Finance teams.

    • Modernize our processes to enable better, faster decision making and drive more timely insights for our clients and business partners.

    • Implement technology to evolve how we work together to achieve meaningful, sustainable change and enable our long-term growth agenda.

    • Ensure a clear and measurable set of KPIs against our Finance OKRs and Scorecard to track, report and recognize key milestones and impact statements for our work product.

    As a Consultant you will serve as a strategic partner to the Finance Velocity Office Program. This role requires interpersonal skills to influence and cultivate partnerships across functions, regions, and teams, to drive thought leadership, and successfully enact detailed financial analysis, business case development, and performance tracking. This role will leverage detailed analysis to generate insights, make recommendations and be expected to develop effectively communicate through various mediums (e.g., presentations) to program leaders and executives. The ideal candidate has a background in finance transformation and/or financial analysis, preferably with a public company, management consulting firm and has proven results collaborating with team members and supported functions.

    Essential Functions:

    Problem solving and analysis

    • Lead analyses to drive decision-making on critical strategic topics. Proactively identify issues and provide recommendations on solutions, leveraging input from cross-functional teams
    • Perform business process mapping/flowcharting when evaluating end to end financial processes.
    • Build near and long-term views for growth that align with business strategy and data.

    Project management

    • Manage project workstreams within broader initiatives.
    • Create project deliverables to cement the results of the project in various mediums
    • Support business case development for key initiatives, ad hoc requests, and special projects.
    • Establish efficient processes for quarterly and monthly performance reporting
    • Utilize project management methodologies and tools to ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope.

    Stakeholder engagement and communications

    • Establish and maintain relationships with a broad base of key stakeholders (i.e., executives and staff) in the business and serve as a key point of contact for issues
    • Drive change management initiatives to ensure initiatives are seamlessly rolled o
    • Acquire and maintain a deep understanding of the strategies, priorities, and issues of the business.
    • Design and deliver compelling presentations to effectively illustrate findings, ideas and recommendations to support decision-making processes, tailored to various audiences including CEO, CFO, Finance Leadership Team and Executive Committee and Broader Finance.

    Implementation support

    • Identify and implement changes that improve efficiency and effectiveness of operational decision making.
    • Enable management by providing timely, accurate information
    • Understand business drivers and recommend measures to further improve results

    This is a hybrid position based in San Francisco, CA. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

  • Qualifications

    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 Qualification
    •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
    •2-3 years of experience in management consulting required
    •5+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 2+ years of
    relevant experience in a well-disciplined organization where best practices are
    integral to the management of the business
    •Must have the ability to perform business process mapping/flowcharting as
    the company will be evaluating end to end financial processes through various
    assessments
    •Advanced skills in creating compelling narratives, visually appealing and
    content-rich PowerPoint presentations that will support executive level
    reporting
    •Strong project management skills to lead workstreams within broader
    initiatives
    •Ability to create a variety of deliverables for in-flight projects that can range
    from process flows, roadmaps, slide decks, policy documents, etc.
    •Ability to gather and write business requirements as well perform user
    acceptance testing as part of system and tool implementation projects
    •Proactive, strategic thinker
    •Superior problem-solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with
    executive management
    •Must be action-oriented and detail-oriented to ensure timeliness, accuracy, and
    quality of output
    •Experience performing financial analysis and modeling with strong financial
    acumen
    •Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
    •Ability to work effectively with other functional areas and understand the
    operational and cultural issues relevant to achieving superior results
    •Client-focused with tenacity to resolve issues and conflicts
    •High energy and enthusiasm required to partner with multiple stakeholders
    •Able to work in a dual reporting matrix environment

    Additional Information

    ** 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 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.

    Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

    U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 132,300.00 to 191,800.00 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.

  • Industry
    Financial Services