Coordinate rolling forecasts and quarterly budget processes, ensuring clarity into committed deals, resource utilization, and alignment with long-term strategic priorities.
Review demand for new purchases with product owners, validate that the demand aligns with technology strategy and present analytics to compare Visa’s usage of similar products within the category Lead the annual operating plan (AOP) process, collaborating with business and technology partners to develop, review, and finalize budgets.
Lead cost allocation decision making, utilizing historical data and knowledge of future roadmap needs to allocate and obtain approvals for funding across stakeholder groups Facilitate governance review of spend approval, policy compliance, deal reviews and compliance reporting.
Develop, centralize, and maintain dashboards and reports delivering actionable data-driven insights for all facets of CIT portfolio management, budgeting, and business operations.
Requirements
The Consultant is also accountable for portfolio governance and Jira Align management, driving operational excellence and actionable insights to support leadership decision-making and long-term organizational growth.
Provide training and knowledge transfer sessions to ensure consistent understanding and application of policies and methodologies across the enterprise.
Assist product owners with execution of technology strategy, keeping a view of the operating expense impact of key decisions Run SQL scripts to extract data from multiple data sources and have ability to normalize data based on product owner feedback Identify expense reduction opportunities with product owners and create plans and tracking to ensure execution of cost reduction strategies.
Provide expertise in integrating portfolio tools like Jira Align with portfolio management processes, ensuring accurate and timely data for decision making.
Qualifications Basic
experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work
experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD Preferred
experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant
experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field. 5+ years of
experience in portfolio management, business operations, or financial planning within a technology or IT organization.
Deep understanding of budget management, annual and rolling forecasts, and capital allocation across OPEX and CAPEX.
Proficiency with SQL queries, data analysis and visualization tools a must
Proficiency in enterprise portfolio and financial management tools including Jira Align, Excel, and BI platforms.
Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results across a large, complex portfolio (e.g., 100+ projects, 1,200+ employees).
Experience driving compliance and operational excellence through policy redesign and automation.
Experience
5 or more years of relevant work
6 or more years of work
Benefits
About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world.
Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Applicants Only The estimated salary range for this position is $116,300.00 to $ 186,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).
Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive
benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
Visa is an EEO Employer Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status.
Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Additional details
Job Description As part of the Business Operations team, the Finance and Portfolio Consultant is a pivotal member of the Corporate IT organization, responsible for ensuring effective portfolio management, robust financial planning, and governance across all initiatives.
This role oversees the end-to-end reporting, development, and execution of portfolio management policies and processes, coordinates financial forecasts and annual planning, and ensures alignment with company strategies.
In this role, the Consultant will support all levels of Corporate IT employees including senior leadership and partner closely with multiple stakeholder teams, notably Finance and Technology Operations.
Responsibilities include: Consult on and promote standardized practices for project intake, resource estimation, and compliance with internal and external requirements.
Continuously improve processes to reduce manual effort and improve cycle times (e.g., spend approval), increase accountability, and ensure alignment with organizational strategy and Golden Rules metrics.
Demonstrated success managing multi-million-dollar budgets, developing reporting capabilities, and driving large-scale process improvements.
Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
Skilled in delivering clear, concise training and conducting knowledge transfer across departments and leadership levels. U.S.
Work Hours Varies upon the needs of the department. Travel
Requirements This position requires travel 5-10% of the time. Mental/Physical