Senior Consulting Manager

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, driving 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.

As a Senior Manager, you will work within the UK&I Consulting team, leading and delivering projects for our multinational clients. 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.

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to closing engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients.
• Engage in regular strategic & planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of analytic work.
• Develop analytical frameworks, approaches, solutions, and data-led strategies that address impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, products, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources.
• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues, and provide strategic mentorship for client priorities.
• Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, standard methodology documents, and consulting approaches that can be applied across VCA practices.
• Lead team to provide knowledge sharing, coaching, and training across functional teams and/or regions in the role as an analytics subject matter expert.
• Oversee multiple workstreams and project delivery, meeting objectives and timelines.

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.

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 presentation 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.