Vice President, Global Finance Strategy and Transformation

Company 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.

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Job Description

Visa U.S.A. Inc., a Visa Inc. company, needs a Vice President, Global Finance Strategy and Transformation (multiple openings) in San Francisco, CA to:

 

• Partner on overall Strategy and Vision for the Finance Velocity office and help shape the broader Finance mission statement and operating model to better enable Visa for long-term growth.
• Prepare and deliver materials for frequent Executive Committee briefings.
• Provide KPI reporting for regular meetings and on an ad hoc basis as needed.
• Build key partnerships and leverage points across key stakeholder groups e.g. People team, Enterprise Transformation, Strategy, etc.
• Define governance structure and engage with key bodies (e.g., Transformation SteerCo), to ensure timely progress of milestones.
• Ensure a clear and measurable set of KPIs against our Finance OKRs and Scorecard to track, report and recognize key milestones and impact statements for work products.
• Steer transformation reporting: Set guidelines and steer PM resources in reporting to Transformation Leader and SteerCo on program progress.
• Drive predictive, forward-looking view of performance, and escalate issues with stakeholders for resolution.
• Define key transformation meetings needed, including objectives and stakeholders to be engaged.
• Guide design of trackers, tools and templates used across the transformation (e.g., templates for charters, business cases).
• Drive ad hoc leadership meetings as requested, to support program delivery / acceleration.
• Drive and deliver key projects and select finance wide initiatives including enterprise planning, change management and / or Operating Model design and accountable project leader with cross-functional team and SMEs.
• Responsible for designing, managing and staffing a team of workstream leaders, transformation coaches and process improvement resources, guiding them through charters, business cases, roadmaps, metrics etc.
• Develop a deployment and staffing approach to match talent to projects, ensuring mutual best-fit between project needs and individual development needs; ensure that project teams are adequately resourced to deliver projects on time and with exceptional results.
• Develop and manage templates, processes and methodologies to ensure consistency across transformation initiative.
• Advise and coach the Finance leadership team on how to improve efficiencies and effectiveness by reducing cost and increasing revenues.
• Conduct analyses and recommend approaches to design, implement and oversee a program of initiatives aimed at improving and transforming Visa’s finance function systems, processes and organizational design.
• Provide guidance to a team of resources dedicated to delivering on the transformation workstreams.
• Position has direct reports who hold the job title(s):
• -Senior Director: Head of Project management
• -Senior Director: Portfolio Lead (X3)
• -Senior Director: Change Management
• -Senior Director: Head of Revenues
• -Business Consultant
• -Director: Strategy and Communications
• Domestic travel required 10% of time.
• Position reports to the San Francisco, California office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Technology Management, Information Technology, or related field, followed by 10 years of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation. Alternatively, employer will accept a Master’s degree in Finance, Technology Management, Information Technology or related field and 8 years of work experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.

Position requires experience in the following skills:

 

• Program management, including financial and budget management in a transformation environment
• Business case development, influence and tracking
• Change Management at an enterprise wide scale across senior stakeholders and a global employee base
• Process Improvement, leveraging a methodology including process mapping and integration plan
• Senior stakeholder management and engagement
• Building, leading, managing, mentoring and coaching teams
• Leading Finance transformations including identifying and managing risks, advancing process, and ensuring a seamless operating model and systems delivery across a program
• Management consulting or experience designing and executing transformation programs
• Managing projects or deliverables against set deadlines with clear tool kit and roadmap; and
• PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI and project management tools

Additional Information

Worksite: San Francisco, CA

Travel Requirements: Domestic travel required 10% of 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 $236,300.00 USD to $413,600.00 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.   

Client-provided location(s): San Francisco, CA

Job ID: a8c483f6-d0fd-4522-8d08-61beb7c864d6

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-07-22T14:59:44