Purpose
The SSA Business Planning and Operations team directly supports the Western and Central Africa (WCA) Group Country Manager (GCM) and sets out to facilitate achievement of financial and business goals for the region. Closely engaging with all internal stakeholders (GCM, Country Managers, CEMEA Hub and various functional verticals), the team provides guidance, oversight and project management across strategic and BAU priorities of the region.
Principle Responsibilities / Key Results Area
The Snr Director-Business Planning and Operations will lead collaboration across the WCA region by providing support in financial planning, pricing, decision-making, competitive tracking, managing strategic business initiatives, client support programs, management reporting, insights and related areas. Primary responsibilities of this position are:
- 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 for WCA
- 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 Visa business and strategic priorities in WCA
- Collaborate with business line management across WCA
- Provide leadership to the BPO team and ensure the delivery of functional objectives
- 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 WCA
- Maintain business landscape knowledge to provide solid foundational context to critical strategic projects
- Research and analyze internal/ external data, information and trends to present client and market level insights to the WCA leadership team
- 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 regional management
- Balance facilitation, influence, and content contribution to help business leaders design their strategies and achieve their goals.
- Support all functions and geographies in WCA
- Prepare regular management reporting and presentation documents when required
- Oversee the Sales Playbook implementation for WCA, ensuring that both the strategic account management approach and the technology are effectively adopted
- Lead the hosting/managing of Visa Internal/external events such as Client Forum, Staff Offsite, BD training week and specific key regional client events in line with the event Strategy
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.