Role Overview
The Vice President, Finance Strategy & Execution, is a leadership role responsible for defining, shaping, and executing the future-state Finance operating model. Positioned outside of regular Finance production work, this role is focused on change, and how Finance evolves as a functional and strategic partner to support Treasury and the wider Finance organization.
The VP will serve as a transformation change leader, agent, strategist, and architect, working closely with Treasury, Technology and enterprise strategy teams. The role integrates strategic vision with pragmatic execution, helping to ensure Treasury evolves towards its strategic Target Operating Model (TOM) while maintaining strong control, integrity, and flexibility.
This position is foundational to build a modern and functional Finance Strategy & Execution organization—one that helps design the future of the Finance organization, positions Finance competitively throughout the firm and develops Finance leaders.
Core Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leader & Change Driver
- Help shape and engineer the future of Treasury, defining the enterprise-wide operating model.
- Drive the design of the strategic vision and realization of complex Finance transformation initiatives, with clear accountability for outcomes and value realization.
- Translate enterprise and Treasury strategy into clear, multi-year transformation agendas.
- Act as a thought partner to the various Treasury teams in a complex and continuously evolving environment.
- Demonstrate ability to apply fit-for-purpose methods aligned to initiative complexity and risk.
- Actively manage risks, issues, and remediation actions across a portfolio of initiatives.
- Strengthen organizational capability to sustain long-term transformation and innovation.
2. Transformation Architect & Solution Mindset
- Contributes to the overall transformation architecture, ensuring coherence and compliance across the operating model.
- Define solution intent, design principles, and target-state outcomes while ensuring solutions remain executable.
- Ability to 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 core Finance and Treasury platforms to reduce complexity and manual intervention.
- Ensure solutions are designed for scale adaptability, and long-term sustainability.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and partner for Treasury and Finance, articulating the strategic rationale, design choices, and trade-offs underlying transformation decisions.
3. AI & Automation Enablement
- Integrate the AI-enabled Finance vision, embedding advanced analytics and intelligent capabilities into the operating model.
- Identify and scale high-impact use cases for AI, including predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, and intelligent reconciliation.
- Shape the data architecture required to enable enterprise-grade analytics and decision intelligence.
- Shift Finance from a reactive mindset to forward-looking, insight-driven, and performance focused organization.
- Reimagine Finance processes through an automation-first lens, 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.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience across Treasury, Finance and Transformation work or similar advisory roles within complex financial institutions.
- Deep knowledge across Treasury/Finance and their processes
- Proven experience designing and leading large-scale Treasury transformations, not simply managing delivery.
- Demonstrates ability to operate credibly at both high-level strategic and detailed architecture levels.
- Demonstrates ability to understand and document business needs into formal current state, business requirements, and subsequent user accepting testing cases.
- Experience in managing a project plan, project work tasks, and project deliverables.
- Exceptional analytical, communication, and influencing capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA, CFA, CTP, or equivalent professional certification.
- Prior work in Treasury, Risk oversight of Treasury, or Liquidity Risk
- Experience with major Finance platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, OneStream).
- Practical experience leveraging automation, solutioning and AI within Finance or adjacent functions.
- Experience operating within Agile or hybrid delivery environments.
Key Competencies
- Strategic and architectural leadership that defines direction and guides execution.
- Analytical and insight-led thinking and leadership.
- Change leadership and influence at all levels of organization.
- Ability to interact with Technology areas fluently.
The expected base salary ranges from $115,000 - $180,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, including Medical, Dental and 401K plans, successful candidates are also eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.
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Other requirements
In office attendance is an essential function of this role. There is currently a requirement to be in the office a minimum 50% of the time, or five out of every 10 business days. Specific information about the requirements for your role will be communicated during the recruitment process.
Company Overview
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.
Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in all of the jurisdictions where we operate. AA Employer - M/F/Disability/Veteran.
Accommodations are available upon request for applicants with disabilities and other covered reasons in accordance with applicable law.
We participate in the E-Verify program.
We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing, as permitted by applicable law.
