Sr. Finance Manager - CEMEA COE Cost of Volume Planning

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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.

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Job Description

Our Finance Velocity Office was designed to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function. This function is shaping our transformation strategy, improving our business operations and enhancing the impact we make as a function. Why velocity? Velocity is about both speed and strategy, focused on accelerating in a given direction. We will hone our approach, think big and decide quickly, living our Leadership Principles. This dedicated team is helping to drive global consistency and operating as one team to build a foundation that supports the growth and complexity of our business and improves the day-to-day interactions of our Finance teams.

The Senior Manager, CEMEA Cost of Volume (COV) Planning will play a key role within the CEMEA Planning Center of Excellence (COE). Reporting to the CEMEA Planning COE Regional Partner (Sr. Director), this role is responsible for regional Cost of Volume forecasting, baseline development, governance, reporting, and planning cycle execution. The role serves as the regional owner for COV baseline quality, exception management, consolidation of local overlays, and submission readiness, partnering with FP&A, CoE Global, FSS, DSG, and business stakeholders to drive forecasting accuracy, process consistency, and continuous improvement.

Essential Functions

• Cost of Volume Baseline & Reforecasting: Own regional COV baselines and AI-driven reforecasting; review discounts, waivers, and exceptions; validate assumptions and forecast drivers.
• Pricing & Commercial Analysis: Support pricing and baseline reviews; assess commercial impacts, market dynamics, and key COV drivers.
• Allocations, Mapping & Validation: Validate allocations, mappings, hedging logic, and data quality; ensure alignment with global methodologies and reporting standards.
• Forecasting & Planning Cycles: Coordinate forecast updates, quality reviews, local overlays, and submission readiness; support variance analysis across forecasts and actuals.