Senior Manager, Strategy & PMO

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:

Build a foundation that supports the growth and complexity of our business and improves the day-to-day interactions of our Finance teams. Modernize our processes to enable better, faster decision making and drive more timely insights for finance and business partners. Implement technology to evolve how we work together to achieve meaningful, sustainable change and enable our long-term growth agenda. 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

This is an individual contributor role, reporting to a leader in the Finance Velocity Team. This individual will partner closely with key stakeholders across the Finance function to achieve workstream objectives in alignment with the overall Finance Transformation strategy.

Essential Functions:

• Support the creation of the Finance Reporting & Analytics strategy and multi‑year roadmap with Finance Transformation

• Lead the Reporting & Analytics PMO in close coordination with the broader Finance Transformation PMO

• Create and deliver executive updates—concise, decision‑ready readouts with impacts, risks, and clear asks

• Set and manage OKRs/KPIs for Reporting & Analytics, track performance, and drive corrective actions

• Create and own the end‑to‑end lifecycle process from intake to deployment—prioritization, roadmap development, quality gates, documentation, and controls

• Design the agile operating model and delivery standards—backlog management, sprint planning, demos, retros, and continuous improvement

• Advance AI in reporting and analytics—prioritize use cases, define guardrails and success metrics, pilot and scale within approved tools

• Lead change and adoption—training, communications, and playbooks—in partnership with the Change Management Office

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• At least 9 years of professional experience with a Bachelors Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.
• Experience in FP&A, Accounting, or Finance Operations, preferably with Shared service model and/or FP&A CoE development. Management consulting strongly preferred.
• Experience working with BI tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Looker) in a Finance capacity is preferred
• Demonstrated ability to improve current state practices, own end-to-end processes, and map and optimize existing processes.
• Experience working on multi-stakeholder initiatives aimed