Senior Accountant, Consolidations

Visa - Foster City, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Foster City, CA

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Accountant, Consolidations role is part of Visa's North America Controllership team, responsible for managing accounting and finance operations for Visa's corporate activities in North America. This high-visibility position involves overseeing the month-end close process, conducting analytical reviews, and providing accounting support to various Visa Finance business functions. The successful candidate will lead efforts in process improvement, system optimization, and standardization of accounting practices globally, while ensuring compliance with GAAP and internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes for North America and global consolidation for all regions, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Coordinate with regional accounting teams to ensure timely and accurate submission of local reporting packages and compliance with accounting policies.
• Prepare the reconciliation of intercompany accounts and transactions, ensuring proper elimination upon consolidation.
• Analyze, interpret, and record financial transactions, and report this information.
• Identify and implement process improvements and automation to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the consolidation process.
• Assist with finance system transformation and accounting-to-reporting projects, ensuring best-in-class global close processes and effective internal controls documentation.
• Own specific components of the North America balance sheet and income statement, review balances during month end closing, prepare balance sheet account reconciliations, and perform variance analysis and other analytical reviews.
• Research and document conclusions on accounting issues with references to GAAP pronouncements.
• Prepare quarterly financial schedules to support external reporting and audits.
• Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting operational documents and desktop procedures.
• Maintain a strong understanding of foreign currency accounting and reporting to provide guidance and implement best practices.
• Support the preparation and review of 10K and 10Q filings, including footnotes and disclosures related to assigned areas.
• Regularly interact with various levels of management within and outside of Finance, internal and external audit teams, and participate in cross-functional projects.
• Maintain process documentation and ensure SOX 404 compliance for functional areas of responsibility.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's 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.
• CPA equivalent, or CPA in progress with clear progressive professional accounting experience, preferably in a publicly traded company and/or with a public accounting firm.

Nice-to-haves

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's 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.
• Strong accounting, quantitative, and analytical skills, with the ability to accurately apply key U.S. GAAP to various business situations.
• Consolidation, Foreign Currency, Legal entity management and Intercompany accounting experience is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including written, oral, listening, and presentational abilities.
• Proficient with Oracle or similar enterprise accounting systems.
• Background in continuous improvement methodologies, driving increases in efficiency and effectiveness.
• Familiarity with Sarbanes-Oxley internal control compliance.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Capable of handling multiple tasks, possessing good organizational, communication, and analytical skills, able to work independently, and extremely flexible.
• Welcomes challenging and complex projects, demonstrating an ability to work smarter not harder by continuously improving the efficiency of processes.
• Strong team player who collaborates well with others to solve problems, actively incorporates input from various sources, and has experience working with global teams.
• Adaptable, consistently implementing process enhancements, leading and driving change initiatives, and addressing challenging situations with creativity.
• Proactive, self-starter who is accountable and exhibits ownership of delegated tasks and projects.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program