Job Description:
Visa is looking for a Finance Manager, Fixed Acquirer Network Fee (FANF) Program to join the Visa Global Operating Certificate team in Foster City, California. The Operating Certificates are reports filed by financial institutions on a quarterly/Monthly basis. Visa uses the reports to assess quarterly Service Fees and perform other industry metric analyses. The Operating Certificate team is responsible for assisting and training clients with the quarterly/monthly filing, analyzing submitted data, and resolving reporting errors. In addition, the team is responsible for the billing process to assess quarterly and monthly service fees.
Essential Functions:
- Drive value for Visa using multiple data points to identify unusual anomalies among clients' FANF reporting and answer critical questions for business teams
- Analyze the US acquiring and merchant population to understand payment acceptance behavior that identify revenue leakage and incremental revenue opportunities
- Leverage big data and innovative data mining techniques, as well as modeling and segmentation using technology software, such as Hadoop, Python, R, and related query engines, to perform business and technical data analyses and interpret large data and unusual anomalies within FANF reporting
- Develop high-level deliverables based on data analytics and communicate results to a business audience
- Assist in scoping and designing FANF audit reviews and solutions, contribute to brainstorming sessions
- Execute FANF audit reviews ranging from small to large acquirers, merchants and processors either individually or as part of a project team.
- Extract actionable business insights from the data and build deliverables that clearly communicate the findings and recommendations.
- Research industry metrics and business context and bring this context to bear in analyses.
- Monitor opportunities to create and automate repeatable analyses or build self-service tools for business users.
- Support Account Executives, Pricing Strategy, and the Deal team on ad-hoc data analysis and requests
- Develop in-depth knowledge of Visa core billing and reporting systems
- Analyze revenue data and prepare customer and product revenue reports for Management
- Support the Revenue Project team and Financial Systems Strategy on the Revenue Planning Analysis (RPA) initiative to replace the current reporting and billing system
- Effectively communicate with internal and external business partners and clients and provide value-added trainings to Visa clients
- Advanced Excel skills to confidently use Macros, and VB tools to assist with various process automation and complex analyses, Comfortable using Hadoop, Python, R, and related query engines
- Stay informed of general business and regulatory developments and their impact on the billing functions and Payment processing industry
