VP, Financial and Corporate Technologies

Western Union•Atlanta, GA

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Western Union is seeking a transformational technology executive to lead the strategy, delivery, modernization, and operation of technology supporting its global finance functions. The role is accountable for technology outcomes across Finance, Settlement, Treasury, Procurement, and Credit. The Vice President partners with senior business and technology leaders to translate enterprise priorities into an integrated portfolio of platforms, products, services, and transformation initiatives. The position defines and executes technology strategy for Corporate Finance, aligns investment and capabilities with enterprise and CFO priorities, and leads portfolio governance, target-state architecture, and multi-year roadmaps. It drives platform simplification, process standardization, application rationalization, technical debt reduction, and platform optimization to improve efficiency, controls, resilience, and scalability. The Vice President maintains governance over technology risk, cybersecurity, data protection, financial controls, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and access management, and ensures timely remediation of related findings. The role also builds and develops a high-performing global organization across product, platform, architecture, engineering, and service management; oversees workforce strategy, budgets, and strategic vendors; and fosters accountability, continuous improvement, leadership development, and succession planning. This is a hybrid role in Atlanta, Georgia. Western Union expects employees to work from the office at least three days per week to support in-person collaboration.

Requirements

15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience across enterprise applications, architecture, engineering, service delivery, portfolio management, and organizational leadership.
Significant experience supporting complex financial or corporate business processes and associated technology platforms.
Demonstrated success leading enterprise transformation, architecture simplification, cost optimization, and operational improvement.
Experience overseeing globally distributed teams, material budgets, strategic vendors, and complex executive stakeholder relationships.
Proven understanding of technology operating models, product management, software development, service management, risk, and platform lifecycle management.
Bachelor’s degree in technology, business, finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
Demonstrated enterprise leadership and ability to influence executive stakeholders in complex, matrixed organizations.
Strong executive presence, communication, and decision-making skills, with a track record of simplifying complexity, driving accountability, and leading transformational change.

Nice To Haves

Financial services, payments, or other highly regulated global-industry experience.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the technology strategy for Corporate Finance, aligning investments, platforms, and capabilities with enterprise and CFO priorities.
Serve as the strategic technology partner to senior business leaders and translate business objectives into scalable roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
Drive transformation through platform simplification, process standardization, and integrated solutions that improve efficiency, controls, and business performance.
Lead portfolio strategy, investment governance, and prioritization across corporate financial systems.
Define target-state architecture and multi-year roadmaps for platforms, data, and integrations, aligned with enterprise technology, security, and risk standards.
Drive modernization and simplification through application rationalization, technical debt reduction, and platform optimization while improving resilience, efficiency, and scalability.
Maintain effective governance over technology risk, cybersecurity, data protection, financial controls, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and access management.
Ensure timely remediation of audit, control, resilience, and technology-risk findings.
Embed control requirements into platform design, delivery practices, and operational processes.
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global organization across product, platform, architecture, engineering, and service management functions.
Foster accountability, continuous improvement, leadership development, and succession planning.
Oversee workforce strategy, budgets, and strategic vendor partnerships to align capabilities, capacity, and investments with business priorities.
Influence executive stakeholders and drive outcomes across complex, matrixed organizations.
Connect business strategy, operating processes, data, technology platforms, and controls to deliver measurable business value.