Visa is seeking a passionate, authentic, dynamic and results-oriented leader to join the Finance Systems Strategy (FSS) team as the Senior Director, FP&A Technology & Strategy. 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 with a global team and involves collaborating with key stakeholders across Finance, IT and the broader business to understand business needs, identify improvement opportunities to develop and execute on the roadmap to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function. Essential Functions:Lead translating finance vision for the future into a world-class end-state architecture. Product Ownership/Management – define, drive and oversee the delivery of our decision support roadmap to enable core FP&A processes across the enterprise as a critical conduit between the finance function and CIT.  Solution Management – ability to detail, influence and collect business requirements and problem statements and translate them to specific epics, user stories and drive a solution to meet the business requirements through technical applications, solutions, development. Analyze current state and business needs using industry best practices to deliver recommendations. Design/facilitate sessions for alignment of target state organization.  Work with and manage third-party system implementation vendors and consulting companies for the assessments and implementation of new tooling. Work collaboratively with the broader Data Strategy & Governance initiative to future proof our target state architecture for Finance – inclusive of planning & forecasting tech stack.  Managing resources globally (India, Europe) to support process improvements and BAU support for planning cycles (Annual plan, outlook, monthly close) activities. The individual will be key to determining globally efficient solutions to meet a geographically dispersed user community. The individual will be a key advisor and partner with the Controllers, Revenue Operations and FP&A Leaders to deliver technology solutions for global/regional Planning / Budgeting functions. Prior Financial Services Industry experience is required, with a deep understanding of the functional and technical aspects of ERP, Billing/Revenue, and Enterprise Planning Management (EPM) systems. Develop compelling business cases and use cases as needed to support speedy decisioning by Finance Leadership. Drive execution of the portfolio of FP&A transformation, Business Intelligence modernization and other Finance initiatives. Communicate and collaborate with other Finance leaders to design solutions that meet Business expectations. Ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead and take accountability / have self-orientation. Project and change management experience – proactively identify risks, change management requirements and engage necessary stakeholders (e.g., tech, business stakeholders, comms teams etc.) Work closely with Technology partners on the day-to-day execution of ongoing BAU (Fixes, Enhancements) Strategic and forward-looking thinking with a tendency to look 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 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. 
 
