Senior Director Initiative Lead/Coach

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 Director Finance Transformation Initiative Coach will join the Finance Velocity office from the beginning and: Serve as FVO liaison and strategic partner to initiatives,  Provide 'outside-in' pressure testing on deliverables, Partner with initiative to resolve milestone blockers & Provide SWAT capacity to initiatives as needed

These will include revisiting our end to end forecast to plan processes, the way we set and deploy Capital envelopes and rigor test business cases and impact and shape our operating model within Finance to enable the businesses growth.

This role reports to the VP, Global Finance Transformation but will have frequent interaction with the SVP Finance Transformation Officer, the Chief Finance Officer and the Finance Leadership Team. 

Essential Functions:

• Finance Velocity Office Updates: Provide color on risks for respective initiatives; details decision options for CVO input, and whether escalation is needed, share qualitative update on overall initiative progression, highlight soft risks unrelated to milestone delivery
• Escalate issues: Drive predictive, forward-looking view of performance, and escalate issues with stakeholders for resolution
• Own initiative deliverables: train, enforce, coach Initiative owners on trackers, tools and templates (e.g., templates for charters, business cases).  Drive line-of-questioning to pressure-test initiative designs, milestone delivery, Partner with initiative to problem-solve blockers to milestone delivery, Coordinate change management, comms, HR support for initiative
• Support as-needed surge asks: Drive ad hoc analysis (e.g., pressure-testing, progress tracking etc.) for leadership as requested
• People: lead initiative teams  guide them through charters, business cases, roadmaps, metrics etc
• Influence without accountability as teams will report directly to other teams
• Process Drive consistency in approach across transformation; manage templates, processes and methodologies to ensure consistency across transformation initiatives

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 project governance and oversight: Lead Program Mgmt. setup and capabilities; strategize on governance, cadences and engagement model with the Head of Finance Transformation
  • Strong communication: Proven strong communication with senior leadership to provide transparency and drive clear accountability for ownership of activities and milestones.