Finance Systems Manager

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

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 bachelor’s degree

•Experience in people management for 2+yrs 
•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 bachelor’s 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.