M&A People Integration, Senior 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

The M&A HR Senior Integration Manager will be responsible for driving a successful integration of employees into Visa. This individual will work closely with People Business Partners and Advisors, People Team Centers of Excellence (COE) Peers, Cross-Functional Peers, and Acquired Company Peers and employees.

He/she will support end-to-end integration activities across multiple acquisitions as part of the Visa People Team. This person will have the opportunity to proactively influence the direction of Visa’s M&A People programs and is expected to innovate and continuously improve on policies and processes that will make the People M&A practice at Visa better.

The ideal candidate for this role has a breadth of knowledge across all HR functional areas and can draw connections between cross-functional dependencies.  

Responsibilities:

• Define best practices for managing interim operating procedures between Visa People Team COEs and acquired company until integration milestones are achieved.
• Prepare and distribute various reports and reports/updates on the status of the integrations for various audiences, including executive management & functional management.  Openly and effectively flag when projects are at risk and demonstrate pro-active problem-solving abilities in such situations.
• Represent the Visa People team in cross-functional integration forums and partner with cross-functional peers to ensure a smooth transition for acquired employees.
• Consult with others on development and execution of complex program/project plans.
• Ensure that interdependencies are recognized, and tasks are integrated.
• Perform critical path analysis and develop action plans to mitigate risk.  Identify and implement alternative solutions.
• Develop strong stakeholder relationships and maintain effective communication channels -- this includes working proactively with stakeholders to resolve critical issues.
• Planning, coordination and hands-on execution with HR Operations/Systems and HRIS teams on “Day 1” readiness for onboarding acquired employees.
• In addition to cross-People team engagement, ongoing collaboration and operational support in driving integration execution with cross-functional partners across Finance, Technology, Legal and Integration Management Office (IMO) teams.
• Partner with Compensation Team members, People Business Partners, and M&A deal team on job mapping and development of retention programs for acquired companies.
• Support the transition to Visa’s annual compensation planning cycle, including the rollout of guidelines and delivery of compensation decision-making and processes for base pay (merit) & promotion adjustments, short-term incentives and long-term incentives.
• Participate in benefits gap analysis and harmonization efforts.
• Manage M&A HR analytics efforts including tracking acquired employee retention and engagement.
• Manage deal records and update M&A HR approaches with an eye for continual process improvement.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-7 years’ of work experience in at least two of the following areas: HR Operations / Systems, Total Rewards (Compensation & Benefits), Mergers & Acquisitions HR, HR Business Partner/Generalist
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to break down complex problems into executable solutions
• Demonstrated project management capability
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to execute under pressure
• Strong communications skills – written and verbal
• Cross-cultural awareness and understanding
• Ability to work independently and with a team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with working in a matrixed organization is a plus
• Strong Excel skills
• Workday HCM/HRIS and reporting experience

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: