Finance Systems Manager

Our Finance Velocity Office was designed to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function. This function is shaping our transformation strategy improving our business operations and enhancing the impact we make as a function. Why velocity Velocity is about both speed and strategy focused on accelerating in a given direction. We will hone our approach think big and decide quickly living our Leadership Principles. This dedicated team is helping to drive global consistency and operating as one team to build a foundation that supports the growth and complexity of our business and improves the day-to-day interactions of our Finance teams.

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Finance Systems / Program Manager to lead a developer team and coordinate the end-to-end delivery of robust scalable and insightful dashboards and reporting systems. This role will be part of our FVO - Finance Business Intelligence team and will report to the Director of Management Reporting.

This is a People Manager role that will lead a team to deliver and maintain a growing portfolio of reporting and BI requests requires a strong technical background data visualization and design experience (especially Power BI) and project/program management skills. The role will collaborate with finance stakeholders to meet their reporting needs and also work closely with Corporate IT and Data Strategy - Governance team on data enablement pipelines and standardization.

Note this is a global role and requires effective collaboration with stakeholders across multiple time zones. Strong time management skills and flexibility are essential.

Essential Functions

• Proven experience leading and mentoring a team

• Facilitate sprint planning backlog grooming daily stand-up meetings reviews/demos retrospectives and other scrum ceremonies

• Provide guidance on dashboard design data modeling and performance optimization in Power BI.

• Review deliverables for accuracy scalability and performance.

• Collaborate with Corporate IT to ensure proper data pipeline integration and governance.

• Coach team members through the product development life cycle using Agile Scrum and Lean practices and work cross-functionally throughout the company to ensure projects are developed and deployed with quality and timely delivery into our production systems

• Proactively identify manage and mitigate project risks and find ways to accomplish project goals in the context of dynamic business/technical environments 

• Accountable for the end-to-end planning execution and documentation of multiple projects. Lead planning for scope schedule risks deployments and communications for projects and initiatives

• Set clear expectations with business partners to provide transparency into project initiation activities and manage day-to-day interaction during project execution and delivery 

• Achieve project goals by engaging effectively with stakeholders including enterprise architects and strategists technical subject matter experts business partners Visa senior management and technology vendors as needed. 

• Proven ability to collaborate and build relationships with cross-functional teams including business leaders developers QA and other technical teams.

• Maintain effective data operations using tools such as Python PowerBI or other BI platforms

• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
7 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelors degree

Experience in people management for 2yrs 
Proven experience leading and mentoring a team
Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
Strong investigative skills to identify troubleshoot and follow up on system issues or business process inefficiencies.
Documentation: Capable of producing clear comprehensive business requirement documents process flows and user guides.
Strong proficiency with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g. Excel SQL PowerBI Tableau).

Preferred Qualifications
7 years of work experience with a bachelors degree in finance engineering computer science accounting mathematics economics statistics or related quantitative field or 4 years of relevant experience with an advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
2 years of experience as a scrum master leading teams is a plus
Experience in dashboard design and user interface development
Experience using Agile methodology and tools such as Jira Azure DevOps or similar.
High degree of business acumen and technical competency with ability to balance and bridge technology and business needs plus project and program management
Solid understanding of business process modeling data flow diagrams and requirement elicitation techniques.
Independent judgment and mature decision-making skills to deal with reporting and technology projects
Ability to work in a complex dynamic environment with changing priorities
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Knowledge of Python SQL DAX (PowerBI) Power Query (M) Oracle EPM and other BI platforms and/or a strong aptitude for learning new tools and technologies
Advanced skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
Enjoys ambiguity and puzzle-solving

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 :

Full-time