Visa Director, Finance AI Acceleration Office \\\| SmartRecruiters Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox . Director, Finance AI Acceleration Office Full-time Job Family Group: Product and Design 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 Visa is seeking a passionate, authentic, and results oriented leader to join the Finance AI Acceleration Office as a Director, reporting to a Senior Director. The Finance AI Acceleration Office is responsible for accelerating the adoption and scaling of AI across Finance, embedding AI into everyday work, transforming end-to-end Finance processes, and enabling measurable productivity, decision quality, and control improvements in a secure and governed manner. This role will play a critical leadership position in shaping and executing Finances AI strategy, moving the organization from local experimentation to enterprise scale, agentic AI solutions across core Finance processes such as Source-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, FP&A, and Contracting. The Director will partner closely with Finance, Technology, and Transformation leaders to ensure AI investments are prioritized, governed, delivered, and scaled for sustained impact. The Finance AI Acceleration Office operates as a bridge between Finance, Technology, and the broader Finance Velocity Office, driving intentional process redesign, disciplined execution, and change adoption to realize the full value of AI in Finance. Key Responsibilities and Success Criteria AI Strategy & Roadmap Execution Own and execute the Finance AI roadmap aligned to the enterprise Finance AI strategy, ensuring clear prioritization for enterprise and orchestration agents. Translate Finance strategic priorities into a sequenced portfolio of AI initiatives with defined outcomes, milestones, and success metrics. Lead the transition from proof of concept solutions to industrialized, scalable AI capabilities embedded within Finance systems and processes. Portfolio & Product Leadership Provide end to end ownership of a portfolio of AI initiatives, including business case development, value realization, delivery oversight, and benefits tracking. Establish and enforce clear product ownership models, operating rhythms, and delivery standards for Finance AI use cases. Drive disciplined intake, evaluation, and prioritization of AI ideas, partnering closely with Technology to ensure we are balancing speed of experimentation with architectural integrity and long-term scalability. Operating Model, Governance & Risk Partner with Technology, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure AI solutions meet enterprise standards for security, data, model governance, and human-in-the-loop controls. Help define and operationalize the Finance AI operating model, including stage gates, guardrails, and architectural alignment. Serve as a thought partner to Finance leadership on responsible AI adoption and risk aware scaling. Cross Functional Leadership & Influence Act as a senior connector across Finance, IT, and Transformation teams, aligning stakeholders around shared outcomes and execution priorities. Influence without authority in a highly matrixed environment, using data, structured narratives, and domain expertise to drive decisions. Facilitate executive level forums to align on AI strategy, investment tradeoffs, and progress against outcomes. Talent, Adoption & Change Build and sustain AI capability within Finance through enablement models such as citizen developer cohorts, reusable templates, and playbooks. Champion adoption and change management to ensure AI solutions are embedded into day-to-day workflows and deliver realized value. Contribute to developing the long-term talent and capacity model required to scale Finance AI. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Qualifications Basic Qualifications 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors degree, or 8+ years with an advanced degree (MBA, Masters, or equivalent) Demonstrated leadership experience applying AI, automation, and advanced analytics to transform Finance processes at scale. Proven experience executing largescale Finance or enterprise transformations, with domain depth in areas such as Order-to-Cash or Record-to-Report Preferred Qualifications 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD MBA strongly preferred. Financial Services and/or Technology Consulting experience. Experience standing up and operating AI or digital transformation programs, including governance, prioritization, and value tracking. Exceptional collaboration, communication, and executive presence skills in global, matrixed environments. Additional Information Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department. Location(s): Preferred locations for CS roles include - Miami, Atlanta, Austin & Ashburn Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time. Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers. 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 protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law. Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code. U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 192,300.00 to 307,600.00 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. 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The role requires at least 10 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 8 years with an advanced degree. Demonstrated leadership experience in applying AI, automation, and advanced analytics to transform Finance processes at scale is necessary. Proven experience executing large-scale Finance or enterprise transformations, with domain depth in areas such as Order-to-Cash or Record-to-Report, is also required. An MBA is strongly preferred, as is experience in Financial Services and/or Technology Consulting. Experience standing up and operating AI or digital transformation programs, including governance, prioritization, and value tracking, is beneficial. Exceptional collaboration, communication, and executive presence skills in global, matrixed environments are also important.