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Finance Director, West Africa
Visa Inc.
Posted 4 months agoLagos, Nigeria
Location
Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Finance
Job Description
This Finance Director position is based in Nigeria, will partner with the Head of Finance for WCA, and be responsible for the financial health of local operations in Nigeria and West Africa. The Finance Director will oversee financial planning (budgeting and forecasting), financial analysis and reporting, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and modelling of client deals and business cases. This role will have direct exposure to West & Central Africa (WCA) leadership team members and be required to work closely with other Finance teams across the CEMEA region.
Minimum of 10 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters/MBA), or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD.
Ability to cultivate strong and effective relationships across the business and communicate effectively with Executive Man
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Requirements
- Leadership:
- Must be a proactive, high-energy, and motivated team player capable of delivering multiple initiatives/projects.
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Technical:
- Degree in Accounting or professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA CPA or equivalent) is preferred.
- ICAN certified.
- Hands-on experience with US GAAP/IFRS and SEC/statutory requirements.
- Strong technical accounting skills, and experience researching and documenting accounting issues.
- Business:
- Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, able to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses.
- Must be detail-oriented and possess good prioritization skills to ensure relevancy, accuracy, and quality of output.
Responsibilities
- Responsibilities:
- Financial Management:
- Lead the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting requirements in accordance with deadlines.
- Provide in-depth support in the areas of revenue management and investment decision.
- Revenue Analytics and Business Partnering:
- Develop financial strategies to drive business growth and accelerate in-market executions.
- Relationship Management:
- Controllership:
- Manage the forecast and budget process for Nigeria market, ensuring all inputs and analytics are provided in compliance with published deadlines and corporate guidelines.
- Implement strategies to prevent and resolve bad debts, ensuring timely collection of receivables and minimizing financial risk to the organization.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities to meet or exceed internal customers’ expectations and focus business engagements on delivering agile business results.
- Lead the analysis of key business drivers (e.g., volumes, transactions, etc.) for use in strategic planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting.
- Lead the financial assessment of client incentive deals, by completing and signing off the associated financial models.
- Work closely with business team throughout the deal process by supporting the deal structuring effort and challenging assumptions appropriately.
- Ensure ultimately that Visa’s interests are front and center, financial targets are being met, while offering attractive terms to clients.
- 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 West Africa Cluster Head on a weekly basis.
- Build and maintain relationships with finance business partners in WCA sub-region and CEMEA Hub, to ensure they are aware of the latest forecasts, deals’ timelines, risks/opportunities, and how we plan to quickly mitigate or leverage them respectively.
