Vice President – Finance Strategy & Execution (Treasury)

Mizuho•New York, NY

23h•$115,000 - $180,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Vice President, Finance Strategy & Execution is a leadership role responsible for defining, shaping, and executing the future-state Finance operating model, with a focus on Treasury. Positioned outside regular Finance production work, the role leads change and helps Finance evolve as a functional and strategic partner to Treasury and the wider Finance organization. Working closely with Treasury, Technology, and enterprise strategy teams, the VP combines strategic vision with pragmatic execution to advance Treasury toward its strategic Target Operating Model while maintaining strong control, integrity, and flexibility. The position helps build a modern Finance Strategy & Execution organization that designs the future of Finance, positions Finance competitively across the firm, and develops Finance leaders. It leads and architects complex transformations, translates enterprise and Treasury strategy into multi-year agendas, and advises Treasury and Finance teams on design choices and trade-offs. The role also advances AI, analytics, and automation in Finance, including improvements to forecasting, anomaly detection, reconciliation, data architecture, and workflows.

Requirements

10+ years of experience across Treasury, Finance, and transformation work, or similar advisory roles within complex financial institutions.
Deep knowledge of Treasury/Finance and their processes.
Proven experience designing and leading large-scale Treasury transformations, rather than simply managing delivery.
Ability to operate credibly at both high-level strategic and detailed architecture levels.
Ability to understand and document business needs into formal current-state documentation, business requirements, and subsequent user acceptance testing cases.
Experience managing a project plan, project work tasks, and project deliverables.
Exceptional analytical, communication, and influencing capabilities.

Nice To Haves

CPA, CFA, CTP, or equivalent professional certification.
Prior work in Treasury, Risk oversight of Treasury, or Liquidity Risk.
Experience with major Finance platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or OneStream.
Practical experience leveraging automation, solutioning, and AI within Finance or adjacent functions.
Experience operating within Agile or hybrid delivery environments.

Responsibilities

Help shape and engineer the future of Treasury by defining the enterprise-wide operating model.
Drive the strategic vision and realization of complex Finance transformation initiatives, with accountability for outcomes and value realization.
Translate enterprise and Treasury strategy into clear, multi-year transformation agendas.
Act as a thought partner to Treasury teams in a complex and evolving environment.
Apply fit-for-purpose methods aligned with initiative complexity and risk.
Manage risks, issues, and remediation actions across a portfolio of initiatives.
Strengthen organizational capability to sustain long-term transformation and innovation.
Contribute to transformation architecture, ensuring coherence and compliance across the operating model.
Define solution intent, design principles, and target-state outcomes while ensuring solutions are executable.
Translate business requirements into functional and technical solutions.
Lead cross-functional working sessions focused on future-state design, decision-making, and adoption.
Drive integration and simplification across Finance and Treasury platforms to reduce complexity and manual intervention.
Ensure solutions are designed for scale, adaptability, and long-term sustainability.
Advise Treasury and Finance on the strategic rationale, design choices, and trade-offs underlying transformation decisions.
Integrate the AI-enabled Finance vision, embedding advanced analytics and intelligent capabilities into the operating model.
Identify and scale high-impact AI use cases, including predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, and intelligent reconciliation.
Shape data architecture to enable enterprise-grade analytics and decision intelligence.
Help shift Finance toward a forward-looking, insight-driven, performance-focused organization.
Reimagine Finance processes through an automation-first approach, eliminating manual effort and redesigning workflows.
Embed AI fluency and digital capability into Finance ways of working and talent models.
Continuously evaluate emerging technologies to sustain competitive advantage.