Vice President, Commercial Finance & Deal Management

Visa
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementEducation: mastersSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Negotiation","Communication","Strategic thinking"]

Lead Visa’s Client Incentives Finance function across Europe, providing senior financial leadership, governance oversight, and strategic direction for client incentive investments. Own the end-to-end deal lifecycle—financial evaluation, structuring, approvals support, forecasting, and post-deal performance monitoring—while advising executives on incentive economics and risks. Manage a team of finance professionals, drive process improvements (including AI-enabled efficiency), and represent Finance on Europe Finance Leadership Team decision forums.

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Job Summary

Lead Visa’s Client Incentives Finance function across Europe, providing senior financial leadership, governance oversight, and strategic direction for client incentive investments. Own the end-to-end deal lifecycle—financial evaluation, structuring, approvals support, forecasting, and post-deal performance monitoring—while advising executives on incentive economics and risks. Manage a team of finance professionals, drive process improvements (including AI-enabled efficiency), and represent Finance on Europe Finance Leadership Team decision forums.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead Finance responsibilities for Europe’s Client Incentives portfolio, ensuring governance, commercial discipline, and strategic alignment.
  • •Provide financial leadership across the full deal lifecycle, from inception and modelling through approval support, contracting, implementation, and post-deal performance monitoring.
  • •Oversee financial structuring and evaluation of complex client incentive deals, including scenario analysis, sensitivity testing, and portfolio analytics.
  • •Partner with Sales, executives, Product, Legal, Strategy, Contract Management, Client Services, and Global Finance to develop robust, commercially viable deal proposals.
  • •Lead and develop a diverse, high-performing team across Europe/local clusters, driving continuous improvement in deal processes, tools, governance standards, and management information using AI.

Key Requirements

  • •Accountancy qualification, MBA, or equivalent senior finance experience.
  • •Degree-level education (or equivalent).
  • •Significant experience in finance disciplines such as Commercial Finance, FP&A, Deal Finance, or Corporate Finance.
  • •Demonstrated payments-industry expertise across issuing, acquiring, processing, client incentives, interchange, pricing, and ecosystem economics.
  • •Strong experience leading complex financial modelling, investment appraisal, forecasting, scenario analysis, and portfolio performance management.
Experience:PaymentsMultinationalFinanceCommercial financeFP&ADeal managementIncentives
Education:Master's
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementNegotiationCommunicationStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:ExcelAIFinancial modellingScenario analysisPortfolio analyticsIDealDeal Performance Tracking (DPT)

Company Brief

Visa
Global payments technology company that operates the VisaNet electronic payments network, facilitating credit, debit and digital transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and governments worldwide.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1958
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