Financial Coordinator

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

1. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist in the preparation of financial statement preparation both under IFRS, US GAAP and Local GAAP including the preparation of journal entries, accruals, prepaids and deferrals.

• Perform balance sheet reconciliations on monthly and quarterly basis.

• Prepare accounting package for outsourcing firms.

• Assist in the preparation of regional quarterly tax provision packages.

• Create, maintain and generate financial reports in support of Accounting and Operation Support teams.

• Manage Controllership POs in Ariba.

• Coordinate monthly intercompany settlement cash requests.

• Assist with tax compliance deliverables and ensure tax compliance obligations are properly and timely reported.

• Collaborate with Accounts Payable team.

• Participation in special projects. Identify any potential financial related risk areas and provide sound recommendations and solutions to Visa for mitigation of the identified risk. 

• Handle adhoc projects as assigned by the Management.

2. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Meet accounting deadlines for monthly, quarterly and annual financial close. Quality of accounting records compliant with corporate policies, GAAP, SEC and SOX. Accurate accounting of transactions. leading to minimum accounting adjustments/errors and no repeat-audit points. Unusual items are properly identified, surfaced and resolved promptly

• Timely provision of reports by agreed timelines.

• Ability to define, solve end to end problems and issues, timely and accurate processing of data, information through the systems.

• Receive minimal observations and non material adjustments from internal and external auditors.

• Deliver on time sufficient information to outsourcing firm for statutory accounting.

• Compliance with statutory requirements for Hub and foreign locations.

• Timely and accurate tax compliance reporting.

• Good understanding of process workflow so as to define, solve problems and issues.

• Excellent project management skills to drive various projects to completion with minimal supervision.

3. DECISION MAKING

• Make decisions on appropriate accounting treatment for transactions in compliance with published policies and guidelines.

• Interprets a range of policies & procedures and develops regional procedures, standards, processes to assess, report, and remediate operations risk and compliance-related issues.

• Prioritize tasks within job function balancing the need to meet tight deadlines and other corporate demands.

• Initiate and implement process changes within assigned function to improve work productivity or quality of work output.

• Exercise good judge to escalate issues to Supervisor.

4. DIMENSIONS

• Interacts with global, regional and in-country Controllership, Compliance, Internal Audit, and Finance teams.

• Collaborates with regional function leaders (e.g., Business Development, Acceptance, Product, Marketing, Finance and Corporate Services).

• Expected to demonstrate independent decision-making and judgment, and lead issue resolution.Support the monitoring and review of Compliance to statutory and accounting regulations of multiple countries in LAC.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualification
•3 to 5 years of experience in accounting or finance roles
•Degree in Accounting or equivalent
•Knowledge of US GAAP
•Strong understanding of accounting controls and tax issues as applicable to
local standards as well as under US GAAP.
•Experience in a Big 4 public accounting firm is preferred.

Preferred Qualification
Technical
•Strong customer service and communication skills
•Must project credibility and integrity.
•Good business judgment.
•Works well under pressure.
•People oriented, team player.
•Takes initiative, self motivator.
•Ability to work well under pressure.
Business
•Good business English, both oral and written
•Good communication, interpersonal and influencing skills and ability to work
effectively in a matrix management structure in a complex and diverse,
international and multicultural environment.

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.