Director, Business Planning & Operations GCC

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.

• Co-Lead with the Finance team the annual business planning cycle, manage cross-functional discussions, review all proposals, and ensure optimal investment of resources in order to finalize the operating plan
• Identify, structure, and manage complex issues to arrive at recommendations that drive corporate objectives. Drive solving of a range of business problems by collaborating and coordinating with multiple internal stakeholders.
• Oversee major project work streams related to strategic priorities in GCC.  Specific project content will vary greatly in sponsor, business or strategic focus, depth, and stakeholders served, ranging from broad co-ordination efforts across multiple countries or functional areas to focused special assignments for senior management that are of high strategic importance to Visa’s business in GCC
• Maintain business landscape knowledge to provide solid foundational context to critical strategic projects.
• Research and analyse internal - external data, information and trends to present client and market level insights to the GCC leadership team, including but not limited to Visa Market Share analysis, Cash share analysis and more
• Communicate and generate support for recommendations among business leaders across the organization
• Provide frameworks and perspectives relevant to business objectives
• Maintain tight alignment and work closely with Functional and Country management teams, acting as a project manager on strategic or pan-regional projects, and bringing timely and useful insight, perspective, analytical support, and research resources
• Work with minimal direction, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to country and regional management
• Balance facilitation, influence, and content contribution to help business leaders design their strategies and achieve their goals.  
• Prepare regular management reporting and presentation documents when required

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

Basic Qualification
-10 or more 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/JD/MD) or at
least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualification
-Minimum of 6 years work experience in Retail Banking, Management Consulting,
Corporate Strategy or a related function
-Experience in and-or significant exposure to the financial services-payments
industry required
-Global or multi-national business experience as a plus
-Experience in handling projects with multiple work streams, and coordinating
complex cross-enterprise processes with multiple stakeholders at both senior
and junior levels

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.