Senior Director, Finance Transformation Program Manager
Visa
- San Francisco, CA
- $176,900-230,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Modernize our processes to enable better, faster decision making and drive more timely insights for our clients and business partners.
- Implement technology to evolve how we work together to achieve meaningful, sustainable change and enable our long-term growth agenda.
- 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 our work product.
- Program Management: responsible for setting-up, implementing and running the Transformation PMO / Change Management function. Provide program / project management oversight for a portfolio of complex and high-profile transformation workstreams. Be the ‘glue’ that keeps the Transformation Council informed and organized
- Develop transformation reporting: Provide line of sight and reporting to Transformation Leader and SteerCo on program progress
- Escalate issues: Drive predictive, forward-looking view of performance, and escalate issues with stakeholders for resolution
- Own initiative deliverables: Own trackers, tools and templates (e.g., templates for charters, business cases) for initiatives broadly as part of Program Management office and specifically lead and drive high priority initiatives that span all of Finance and are owned directly by the FVO as the accountable lead
- EC meeting prep: Prepare materials for periodic Executive Committee meetings
- Facilitate governance: Maintain schedules for key touch points and facilitate meetings. Circulate email communications for transformation as needed.
- Support as-needed surge asks: Drive ad hoc analysis (e.g., pressure-testing, progress tracking etc.) for leadership as requested
- KPI reporting: Provide KPI reporting and tangible initiative status, impact statement, measurable output of key deliverables and milestones
- People: lead initiative teams guide them through charters, business cases, roadmaps, metrics etc.
- Influence without accountability as teams will report directly to other teams
- Process Drive consistency in approach across transformation, manage templates, processes and methodologies to ensure consistency across transformation initiatives
- Business acumen: Understanding of company and Finance strategy, how transformation ambitions link to the specific initiatives.
- Strong voice for issue resolution: Active role in driving cross-initiative and cross-functional intervention for resolution of challenges
- Experience in project governance and oversight: Lead Program Mgmt. setup and capabilities strategize on governance, cadences and engagement model with the Head of Finance Transformation
- Strong communication: Proven strong communication with senior leadership to provide transparency and drive clear accountability for ownership of activities and milestones.
- Change championing: Engage and activate leaders and stakeholders towards change, driving positive sentiment and willingness towards transformation.
- 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 a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD in Finance, Management Consulting, Information Technology or related fields
- At least 12 years of professional experience with 5-7 years of relevant experience in a well-disciplined Finance team and organization where processes are optimized and are integral to the management of the business
- MBA strongly preferred
- Investment banking and management consulting strongly preferred
- Ability to manage, develop, and mentor an impactful team
- Experience in Finance and/or Financial Planning & Analysis team with a detailed understanding of financial accounting and management reporting a plus
- Proactive, strategic problem solver
- Strong analytical and project management skills
- Outstanding problem solving skills with the highly developed ability to present information effectively to executive management
- Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
- Excellent interpersonal and people leadership skills
- Ability to work optimally with other functional areas and understand the operational and cultural issues relevant to achieving outstanding results
- Customer focused with tenacity to resolve issues and conflicts
- High energy and passion required to partner with multiple collaborators
- Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, both verbally and written
- Well-developed strategic, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- An out-of-the-box problem solver who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to use data to answer business problems
- Ability to coordinate and lead multiple data projects with diverse cross-functional partners
- Thrives in an environment that is fast-paced, constantly evolving, and relationship oriented