Director - Finance Data Strategy and Governance

3 weeks ago


Foster City, United States Visa Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionCompany Description

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.

Job Description

Visa is seeking a passionate, authentic, dynamic and results-oriented leader to join the Finance Systems Strategy (FSS) team as the Director, Finance Data Strategy & Governance. 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 and involves collaborating with key stakeholders across Finance, IT and the broader business to understand data needs, identify improvement opportunities to develop and execute on the roadmap to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function.

Essential Functions:

  • Support translating finance vision for the future into a world-class technology end-state architecture.
  • Support development and management of the end-to-end data assessments, identify data enrichment needs, simplification of MDM/reference data hierarchies, and data aggregations.
  • Analyze current state and business needs using industry best practices to deliver recommendations. Design/facilitate sessions for alignment of target state data organization. Work with third-party vendors and consulting companies for the assessments.
  • Support development and execution of major data initiatives.
  • Develop compelling business cases and use cases as needed to support speedy decisioning by Finance Leadership.
  • Drive execution of portfolio of data, BI, and analytics initiative.
  • Work closely with Technology partners on the day-to-day execution of data 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 data 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. 

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 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 Qualifications:
• 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 multi-stakeholder initiatives, focused on improving the customer experience.
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills in a global, matrixed environment with cross-functional teams.



Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 163,000.00 to 236,450.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.



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