Consulting Manager

About Visa

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. We are 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.

About Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA)

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.

Role Overview: Consulting Manager

As an experienced strategy consultant, you will deliver best-in-class engagements aimed at helping our clients grow their business. Projects typically last 2-3 months and could include strategy developments, portfolio management diagnostics, and data insights generation to drive strategic decisions. This is a hybrid position; specific days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to closing engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients for future engagements.
• Participate with Visa internal teams in regular strategic and planning discussions.
• Manage multiple priorities across various workstreams and projects simultaneously.
• Transform problem statements into proposals with guidance from leadership.
• Participate in developing frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues, and provide strategic mentorship for client priorities.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree.
• Alternatively, at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree.
• Alternatively, 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills (especially in designing, building, and showcasing project results packages and delivery materials).
• Ability to take a problem statement and support crafting proposals with guidance from leadership, like competitive analysis.

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.

Key Skills/Competency

• Strategy Consulting
• Data Analytics
• Payment Technologies
• Client Management
• Project Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Presentation Skills
• Business Development
• Financial Services
• Market Analysis