Senior Consulting Manager

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

What's it all about?

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. VCA's core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments.

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Reporting to the Director Visa Consulting & Analytics for multinational clients and data monetization, you will support and deliver projects for Visa clients and play a role in developing high impact projects for Visa clients in Central Europe.

As a Senior Manager, you will work within the Central European Consulting team, leading and delivering projects for our multinational clients in Central Europe. You will work towards the team’s goals and own the delivery of detailed data gathering, analysis, insight generation as well as the formulation of strategic and practical recommendations to enable the successful delivery of client projects.

Furthermore, you are also responsible for delivering internal projects, analysis and reports.

What we expect of you, day to day:

• Manages the delivery as well as sales of consulting projects
• Runs several project engagements simultaneously
• Develops and maintains project plans, content scope and final deliverables for projects namely
• Prepare presentations and reports
• Conduct data analysis
• Review relevant reports and information sources
• Conduct benchmarking from different internal/external sources and desktop research
• Deliver reports and presentations communicating recommended approaches, often with the support of a project team in preparing these deliverables
• Holds and manages client delivery presentations
• Effectively communicates and liaises project findings with internal and external clients at various levels of seniority and function
• Serves as a day-to-day client contact, collaborating closely with clients throughout the project lifecycle
• Supports the Visa Central Europe Consulting team to source new projects. Liaises with other parts of the Visa Europe business, where appropriate, for projects scoping and completion (e.g. the Regional Managing Directors, Business Development and Sales Teams)
• Identifies process improvements including repeatable and scalable solutions and shares knowledge and expertise with team members as required

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 3 set days a week (Tuesday - Thursday), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Preferred

Qualifications

· Passionate, self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently.

· Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and/or payment schemes, including products & services, business systems and processes, and marketing initiatives.

· Excellent client relationship management skills and ability to develop a credible point of view on a variety of industry topics, acting as a trusted advisor.

· Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.

· Executive presence including excellent communication and presentations skills, written and verbal, and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.

· Demonstrated leadership, managerial and collaboration capabilities, particularly with those who are not direct reports as may be found in a matrixed organization.

· Experience in several key payments business areas, such as portfolio management, marketing, product management, operations, risk management, for both credit and debit cards.

· Experience using financial indicators to measure business performance with a significant focus on impacting return on investment.

· Ideal candidate will have payments and consulting experience

* Fluent in written and spoken English and German languages

Additional Information

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.