Vice President, Finance Systems, Corporate IT
Vice President, Finance Systems, Corporate IT
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Job Description
Visas Finance Systems group have embarked on a major transformational journey. We are in the process of reviewing our existing footprint and determining where we need to build on our existing strengths and where we need to do some major new investments. We will not follow the traditional IT playbook of simply purchasing off the shelf solutions and stitching them together nor will we write everything from scratch we will take a thoughtful look at our needs our existing platforms our budgets/priorities and come up with the best strategy for moving forward.
Job Scope
Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Corporate Information Technology The Vice President of Finance Systems provides senior leadership to drive the strategic vision for the Corporate IT organization in a variety of areas including Finance Data Services Finance Analytics and Finance Application Development and Operations. The ideal candidate will provide innovative leadership motivation and guidance required for IT to successfully meet strategic objectives and deliverables in support of the business needs. It will be critical to foster and drive innovation and experimentation delivering software solutions that meet or exceed customer and stakeholder expectations often helping shape business requirements in a manner that optimally leverages technology teams.
The candidate will be responsible for a crossfunctional global team of software engineers solution architects and operations teams to define and implement technology project architecture technology strategy and play a leadership role providing guidance to stakeholders. This individual will provide thought and people leadership to identify and execute the actions required for successful delivery of Visas strategic priorities. The individual must be a strong leader able to engage and challenge senior audiences identify and prioritize actions and navigate a highlymatrixed global environment.
Responsibilities:
- Align and execute the technology roadmap with Visas and Finances strategic vision to drive business objectives and maximize impact
- Perform buildvsbuy analysis to determine if the business strategy is best supported using third party SaaS vendor packages or custombuilt applications (or a combination of both).
- Stay up to date on emerging technologies (such as Generative AI Predictive AI/ML etc.) so that the most effective and appropriate technologies are selected for each platform.
- Lead and grow the organization by hiring training and maintaining highperforming teams. Create a safe and diverse work environment. Develop personal growth opportunities for all levels of the organization.
- Ensure engineering excellence processes are adopted so that all code is highly efficient effective maintainable and fitforpurpose.
- Ensure Operational Excellence practices are followed to maintain highly robust and resilient platforms with minimum technical debt.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive Data Services strategy to leverage best practices for democratization of data data governance best practices efficient data use with high performance high data quality etc.
- Provide leadership and oversight to large transformational programs across many functional teams including 3rd party vendors.
- Provide mentoring coaching career development and day to day management of work to a globallydispersed team
- Keep executive management informed of progress and obstacles impeding the successful architecture implementation of projects and other departmental activities through status reports presentations etc.
- Provide workforce plans budget development tracking and forecasting. Manage the team to achieve target scope schedule and cost objectives
- Lead and manage crossfunctional stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment and collaboration across the organization driving strategic initiatives and achieving business objectives.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering Science Math or professional degree plus equivalent work experience
18 years of technology leadership experience with increasing responsibility growing and leading highperformance teams and directing the IT function
Extensive packaged application knowledge
Experience planning designing building and implementing automated solutions for Finance business functions
Experience deploying enterprise resource planning (ERP) level applications in global corporations
Ability to simultaneously handle multiple priorities with minimal direction from management and adjust to changing priorities and requirements in a rapidly growing organization
Ability to take ownership of complex multifaceted openended problems and drive them to completion
Strong leadership and people management skills with demonstrated ability to lead global multifunctional teams
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and explain the technology strategy to diverse audiences. In particular the ability to describe IT situations alternatives and recommendations in readily understood nontechnical language.
Ability to drive consensus across diverse global technology and business partners will be key
Sound judgment high ethical standards and the ability to work effectively with others at all levels
Customeroriented and cooltempered
ITIL Six Sigma or Agile development experience desired
Additional Information :
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
