Job Senior Director, Data Strategy & Governance

Job Description

Visa is seeking a passionate, authentic, dynamic and results-oriented leader to join the Finance Systems Strategy (FSS) team as the Senior Director, Data Strategy & Governance . FSS is responsible for managing 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 broader 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 evolve how we work together to achieve meaningful, sustainable change and enable our long-term growth agenda.

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

Essential Functions:

• Lead translating finance vision for the future into a world-class data end-state architecture.
• Development and management of the end-to-end data assessments, identify data enrichment needs, simplification of MDM/reference data hierarchies, and data aggregations.
• Analyze current state and business needs using industry best practices to deliver recommendations. Design/facilitate sessions for alignment of target state data organization. Work with third-party vendors and consulting companies for the assessments.
• Development and execution of major data initiatives.
• Develop compelling business cases and use cases as needed to support speedy decisioning by Finance Leadership.
• Drive execution of the portfolio of data, BI, and analytics initiative.
• Work closely with Technology partners on the day-to-day execution of data initiatives and ongoing BAU (Fixes, Enhancements)
• Strategic and forward-looking thinking with a tendency for looking at issues in a holistic manner.
• Experience overseeing large, complex, global data transformations with a bias for action.
• Work successfully in a matrixed environment, with an ability to influence without authority and use subject matter expertise and facts.

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