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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 role sits in Visa’s Bengaluru ATR team, which is responsible for supporting the accounting and finance operations of the Europe business functions and corporate accounting activities for Visa.
The team is part of the broader Global Controllership function within Global Finance. This role will be responsible for accounting activities for Europe Business Functions including month-end close, as well as analysis including research of technical accounting issues. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of US GAAP, the ability to implement processes to improve operational efficiency, work with cross-functional teams, and handle analysis related to operational accounting issues, all with a strong sense of ownership and urgency.
Essential Functions:
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Manage monthly and quarterly close cycles, ensuring that financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP is performed timely, in line with corporate close guidelines. This includes preparing journal entries, reviewing income statement activity, and balance sheet reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the financial statements.
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Complete balance sheet account reconciliations in support of the monthly close process. Own specific accounts on the consolidated balance sheet and income statement and perform detailed analytical review for those accounts.
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Prepare Balance Sheet and P&L flux analysis for the assigned Corporate legal entities.
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Support the Financial Controllers in the regions with daily activities to ensure compliance with Oracle’s policies and US GAAP reporting standards.
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Collaborate with Global Finance Organizations including, Global Business Finance, Tax, Treasury, and Legal.
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Responsibility for the preparation and audit management of the regulatory and statutory financial statements for assigned Corporate legal entities.
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Work closely with Legal Compliance and external auditors to ensure the audit is completed within statutory timelines.
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Participate in Global & Regional strategic initiatives that optimize and enhance the operations of the Chief Accounting Officer organization.
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Ability to research past transactions and interpret past events and future treatment.
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Support Internal Audit and SOX PMO on the assessment of internal controls.
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Collaborate with Tax organization on tax authority information requests and audits.
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Implement best practice system processes and controls for the Corporation and legal entities to comply with all internal and external financial reporting obligations.
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Perform close activities, including preparing manual expense accruals, such as uninvoiced receipt accruals, payroll accruals and other miscellaneous accruals, and perform review of prepaid expenses.
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Provide cross-functional support across Corporate Accounting for month-end activities, including close checklist, prepaid expense review, and flux analysis distributions as well as other ad hoc projects.
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Prepare quarterly schedules for SEC 10Q/10K filings by collaborating with External Reporting and Regional Controllers globally. Support the External Reporting team in preparing the quarterly reports.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
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3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. CA/ICWA/CPA)
Preferred Qualifications:
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4 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 3years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. CA/ICWA/CPA)
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4-6 years of work experience with a diploma/degree in accounting/finance (or related fields)
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CA or ACCA or CPA equivalent with clear progressive professional accounting experience, preferably in a publicly-traded company and/or with a public accounting firm
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Knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS and SEC requirements
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Proficient with Oracle or similar enterprise accounting system and proficient in utilizing Excel to efficiently analyze data
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Strong customer service and communication skills
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Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
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Project credibility and knowledge of business acumen
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Ability to define/solve end-to-end problems and issues
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Strong technical, quantitative and analytical skills. Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
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Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including excellent written, oral, listening and presentation skills. Ability to work well under pressure and interact at all levels
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Capable of handling multiple tasks, possess good organizational and analytical skills, able to work independently, and be extremely flexible
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Welcomes challenging/complex projects and demonstrates an ability for working 'smarter not harder' by making continuous improvement to the efficiency of processes he/she contributes to.
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Teamwork is essential to the group, so it is critical that the candidate interact with other team members and managers collaboratively and effectively
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Ability to identify and execute operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives to improve resource optimization.
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Ability to effectively work in a multi-location organization and adapt to different cultures.
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.
