Senior Manager, Business Intelligence and Analytics

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

We recently established the Finance Velocity Office, designed to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function. This newly created function will shape our transformation strategy, improve our business operations and enhance 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 newly dedicated team will help us drive global consistency and operate as one team to:

1. Build a foundation that supports the growth and complexity of our business and improves the day-to-day interactions of our Finance teams.
2. Modernize our processes to enable better, faster decision making and drive more timely insights for our clients and business partners.
3. Implement technology to evolve how we work together to achieve meaningful, sustainable change and enable our long-term growth agenda.
4. Ensure a clear and measurable set of KPIs against our Finance OKRs and Scorecard to track, report and recognize key milestones and impact statements for our work product.

The Senior Manager Business Intelligence and Analytics will join the Finance Velocity office to design, build and advance the critical tools, systems, capabilities, and innovation of Business Intelligence.  The Senior Manager will support Visa’s Finance BI strategy e.g. implementation of AI while leading an initiative to shape and refine our end-to-end reporting/dashboard strategy, reporting automation and standardization and systems user needs and requirements. They will evaluate and influence visualization tools e.g. Tableau and/or Power BI. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial data reporting and analysis, experience modernizing BI, and the ability to discern insights and communicate to executive leadership. 

Essential Functions:
Enable Data Driven Decision Making:

• Evaluate and design strategy and end state vision for integrated, modernized and scalable systems
• Elevate and Enable insight-based, forward-looking decision making
• Dedicated teams to develop new digital offerings for business decision support
• Identify advanced analytics/ AI tooling and use case
• Empower leadership with self-service BI to track key KPIs and steer business accordingly
• Clear standards govern ERP/BI and analytic tool landscape
• Business partners identify true value drivers via advanced analytics and AI/ML tools
• Support a team of SMEs, BI Analysts, Data Scientists, Power Users across Finance
• Influence without accountability for training on tools and processes with the intention of creating a community for Finance to leverage to support ad-hoc data analysis needs

“A” Accountability over select Key Initiatives:

• Drive and deliver business intelligence workstream as part of Transformation, define end-state COE systems, processes and tools for ongoing Reporting and Analytics
• BI champion across Transformation as COE on tools and capabilities, institute and scale training, best practice sharing and SME center of excellence
• Provide KPI reporting on status of key initiatives and deliverables
• Enable broader KPI reporting against key metrics leveraging data analyst team
• Develop and manage internal processes and best practices around data, reporting and analytics
• Influence and provide thought leadership of shared reporting HUB and capabilities

Successful Qualities:

• Business acumen: Understanding of company and Finance strategy, how transformation ambitions link to the specific initiatives.

• Strong voice for issue resolution: Active role in driving cross-initiative and cross-functional intervention for resolution of challenges

• Experience in Data, Visualization and Analytics: expert level experience with data visualization tools, reporting center of excellence and analytics to shape, strategy and design of end state vision

• Strong communication: Proven strong communicatio