Senior Manager, Visa Consulting And Analytics

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

The Visa Consulting & Analytics Senior Manager will undertake consulting engagements for Visa clients for Georgian market, enabling digital growth and improved profitability in clients' credit and debit payment card business.

Potential projects could include portfolio management diagnostics, assessments of digital product, channels and key digital enablement initiatives, development of industry landscape evaluations and best practices, and optimizing client customer experience and supporting processes.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Using VISA and external data, analyze client needs across the focus markets and identify opportunities for Consulting assignments with top Clients.

• In coordination with Country Managers and Account Executives, develop Country plans for Consulting activity with top Clients, securing funds from partnership agreements to support Consulting projects where such agreements exist.

• Develop project pitches and in coordination with Account Executives, secure new Consulting assignments with clients, as well as "re-engagements opportunities" via a consultative sales approach in assigned markets.

• Deliver Consulting projects. Resolve complex strategic problems. Synthesize and manage complex project structures when required. Manage, facilitate and implement consulting services and meet client's business targets (assignment objectives, project scope, budget, paperwork, external consultants' supervision and project delivery). Work closely with other VISA groups, including Product, Marketing etc., to ensure a seamless client Consulting experience in the countries of focus.

• Develop and deliver client training programs and impart best practices knowledge sharing to VISA clients.

• Where appropriate, work with designated practice areas global Consulting groups to incorporate best practice, source analytical or other services and realize consulting efficiency between CEMEA and other regions.

• Deliver and manage a network of external Consultants for the projects that require external consultant support and: (a) Maintain excellent liaison　and supervision of external consultants' deliveries, (b) Assist in selecting, recruiting, inducting and training new external consulting firms, (c) Work with other teams and external consultants to develop new and improved tools and techniques for future consulting activities.

• Manage the VISA Consulting and Analytics budget and resources to perform all required duties.

• Liaise with VISA functional teams (Finance, Audit, Legal, Tax, Sourcing) to define and implement processes to optimize the daily engagement of vendors and the relationships with clients.

• Manage sales pipeline, execute on revenue targets agreed.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Minimum of 7 years of experience dealing with business problems in relevant fields such as analytics, business consulting, or other data-driven functions

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research, Computer Science, Economics, etc.

Post graduate degree with strong technical experiences strongly preferred

Prior experience in consulting / advisory services (Big 3/4/Boutiques) is a very strong advantage

Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills

Exceptional structuring analytical and modeling skills, with the ability to process and summarize large amounts of data into key strategic insights.

Analytics experience in credit risk modelling is preferred but not required

Strong team player with a willingness to collaborate across levels and functional experts both internal to Visa and with the client

Experienced project management skills, both from an individual perspective but also with respect to managing team and client expectations and deliverables.

Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to adapt

A background in payments, financial institutions or consumer lending a plus

An affinity for payments technology and its future

Willingness to travel domestic and international assignments

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.