About The Role

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa is seeking a passionate, authentic, dynamic and results-oriented leader to join the Finance Systems Strategy (FSS) team as the Manager, Project Costing Systems . FSS is responsible for driving changes to 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 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 achieve meaningful, sustainable change and enable long-term growth.

The role involves collaborating with key stakeholders across Finance, IT and the broader business to understand needs, identify opportunities to develop and execute on to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function.

Essential Functions

Support translating finance vision for the future into a world-class technology end-state architecture.
Lead development and execution of major initiatives in the Project Costing space for Finance.
Develop requirements for Project Costing systems, manage delivery in close collaboration with IT, conduct user acceptance testing and client adoption
Manage work in an agile environment with Jira as the tool, provide accurate and transparent updates to leadership, highlighting risks/issues with appropriate mitigation and remediation plans.
Work successfully in a matrixed environment, with an ability to influence without authority and instead use subject matter expertise and facts.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

6 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 3 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in managing finance transformation initiatives
Experience with all phases of Technology implementation lifecycle.
Organizational, problem-solving skills, and time management skills to meet deadlines
Strong conceptual, analytical and process mapping skills are required
Should be able to work with offshore resources spread out globally
Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across Finance and Technology
Independent judgment and mature decision-making skills to work on projects that often have enterprise-wide scope and may have significant financial and compliance impacts
Strong understanding of project accounting, cost allocation, forecasting, and capital/operational expense management
Solid understanding of project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices
Proven Track record in managing Project Costing system implementations and upgrades (e.g. Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP S/4 HANA, Workday, Planview, Planisware or equivalent)
Experience with ERP governance frameworks, data integrity and compliance requirements (e.g. SOX)
Experience with applying Agile methodology in projects
Strong communication, stakeholder management and change management skills

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.