Director - Finance Strategy & Portfolio Management

Full-time - Director

Foster City, CA

About the position

Visa is seeking a passionate, authentic, dynamic and results-oriented leader to join the Finance Systems Strategy (FSS) team as the Director, Finance Systems Strategy and Portfolio Management. FSS is responsible for managing Finance technology and tools and is currently working directly with the Finance Leadership team to design the future architecture and drive the Finance Technology modernization roadmap. Visa has established a broader Finance Velocity Office (FVO) to build a foundation that supports the growth and complexity of our business and improves the day-to-day interactions of our Finance teams. FSS team is working tightly with the broader FVO to implement technology to evolve how we work together to achieve meaningful, sustainable change and enable our long-term growth agenda. This is a people leader role, reporting to the Senior Director, Finance Systems Strategy. The role involves collaborating with key stakeholders across Finance, IT and the broader business to understand needs, identify improvement opportunities to develop and execute on the roadmap to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function.

Responsibilities

• Translating finance vision for the future into a world-class technology end-state architecture.
• Support development and management of the end-state architecture, and roadmap for the end-state architecture.
• Support development and execution of major roadmap initiatives.
• Develop compelling business cases and use cases as needed to support speedy decisioning by Finance Leadership.
• Design/facilitate sessions for alignment of end-state and roadmap.
• Work with third-party vendors and consulting companies for the assessments.
• Analyze current state and business needs using industry best practices to deliver recommendations.
• Manage execution of portfolio of roadmap workstreams - project plans, analysis, deliverables, trackers, and other key project artifacts.
• Work closely with Technology partners on the day-to-day execution of roadmap initiatives and ongoing BAU (Fixes, Enhancements).
• Strategic and forward-looking thinking with a tendency for looking at issues in a holistic manner.
• Experience overseeing large, complex, global transformations with a bias for action.
• Work successfully in a matrixed environment, with an ability to influence without authority and instead use subject matter expertise and facts.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.
• MBA strongly preferred.
• Financial Services and Technology Consulting experience preferred.
• Experience designing and executing a finance transformation.
• Experience working on global, multi-stakeholder initiatives, focused on improving the customer experience.
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills in a global, matrixed environment with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program