Senior Finance Manager - 12 month FTC at Visa in London

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About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description This is a fixed term contract until November 2027 The Senior Finance Manager will be a key member of the Visa Direct Network & Operations FP&A team, providing financial leadership, insight, and analytical support across revenue planning, forecasting, performance management, and client-level reporting. The role will take ownership of the financial planning and reporting activities supporting both the Visa Direct Account (VDA), Visa Direct Wallet (VDW) and CurrencyCloud businesses, with a particular focus on CurrencyCloud revenue forecasting, transaction and foreign exchange volumes, client performance, month-end reporting, and data integrity. You will partner closely with regional FP&A, Sales, Account Management, Revenue Operations, and Data Insights teams to improve financial visibility, explain performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support informed decision-making. This is a hands-on role that combines commercial finance partnering with detailed financial analysis, systems expertise, and reporting transformation. Financial Planning and Forecasting Lead the revenue components of the Annual Operating Plan and quarterly Outlook processes for the relevant VDNO business areas. Develop robust revenue forecasts using client-level revenue, transaction volume, payment value, foreign exchange volume, sales pipeline, launch timing, and churn assumptions. Partner with regional FP&A teams to provide accurate and timely client-level revenue and volume information. Work with Sales and Account Management teams to understand expected client performance, new opportunities, implementation timelines, and emerging revenue risks. Produce forecasts for key revenue streams, including transactional revenue, FX Marketplace revenue, interest income, and payment transaction volumes. Maintain and enhance forecasting models, ensuring assumptions are transparent, appropriately documented, and supported by underlying data. Prepare clear commentary and presentation materials explaining forecast movements, assumptions, risks, and opportunities. Coordinate the loading of revenue forecasts into Oracle EPM and support restatement of the plan using updated constant-dollar exchange rates. Month-End Revenue Performance and Reconciliation Own the month-end client revenue reconciliation following the financial close. Develop a complete view of revenue by client and revenue stream to support variance analysis against budget and forecast. Ensure revenue information is accurately loaded and available in the relevant reporting. Maintain a strong control environment around client-level revenue reporting, reconciliation, and data lineage. Management Reporting and Business Performance Lead the preparation of FP&A revenue reporting and commentary for monthly flash and performance review processes. Provide regional FP&A teams with clear explanations of revenue performance and material variances. Produce and distribute client-level revenue reporting to support regional and central finance requirements. Translate complex revenue and operational data into concise, decision-relevant insights for senior finance and business stakeholders. Identify underlying performance drivers, distinguishing sustainable business trends from timing differences, manual adjustments, credits, reserves, and other one-off items. AI: Data, Reporting, and Business Intelligence Leverage AI to enhance, simplif