Senior Consultant, Corporate Technology M&a

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

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.

**Job Description**:
Visa Inc. is expanding our services and products both organically as well as through acquisitions. The Corporate Technology Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Integration Management Office (IMO) Team is looking to hire an experienced and self-motivated technology leader with a unique balance of technical depth and business acumen to lead post-merger acquisition integrations. This senior level, individual contributor role reports to the Senior Director of Corporate IT M&A IMO and will be a part of a highly matrixed global team providing strategic and tactical leadership to achieve post-merger integration goals. Our team works closely with project managers, architects, and engineers within our organization, as well as with peer technology organizations such as Cybersecurity, Operations & Infrastructure and Product Development, as well as business functional teams like Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, and Risk to capture technology requirements, define target operating models and integration roadmaps. Change is constant in this role and being flexible is key.

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**
- Understand the integration health and key performance metrics for the acquired companies
- Communicate progress, recommendations and decisions required to cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and the broader Visa organization
- Contribute to Corporate Technology integration planning efforts (and workshops) with strong organizational and communication skills, and ensuring clear accountability
- Facilitate discussions across workstreams to identify and clarify interdependencies between teams and critical deliverables to drive consensus and commitment in achieving integration activities per established timelines
- Participate in pre-close planning to validate acquisition objectives, contribute to the technology operating model design, and identify preliminary integration milestones, risks, and challenges
- Collaborate across workstreams to develop and ultimately deliver detailed integration plans
- Document integration technical requirements, integration plans, and fact sheets for audit, implementation, and change management/training purposes
- Contribute to the development of KPIs, help monitor the performance and report on the integration process, value creation and risk mitigation
- Be able to deep dive regularly into integration metrics and technical details to identify root cause of issues, identify opportunities and follow through with action-oriented goals and measures
- Champion continuous improvement of Visa s acquisition integration methodology through playbooks, templates, automation, and technical enhancements so we can get better through every acquisition

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**:

- Extensive working experience in information technology with specific company and payment industry knowledge
- Significant progressive experience with increasing responsibility in Information Technology, Technical Product or Project Management, Software Development or Engineering domains
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and demonstrated leadership skills
- Strong written and spoken communication
- Experience translating business requirements to technical requirements
- Operate with a customer mindset
- Requires exposure to multiple diverse technologies and processing environments
- Prior experience in M&A integration
- Demonstrated ability to succeed in a complex organization where the ability to partner with diverse stakeholders is critical to brokering solutions that are in the best interest of Visa as a whole
- Working knowledge of corporate productivity technologies such as any of the following: Microsoft O365 (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint), open-source development tools and processes, corporate network concepts

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