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Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including both financial services and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, Visa Consulting and Analytics solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

The North American Consulting Practice provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s largest issuers in the United  States. We apply deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities, drive growth and improve profitability. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to deliver solutions that address unique challenges in areas such as improving profitability, strategic growth, customer experience, digital payments and managing risk.

The Vice President will play a key leadership role on a team of professionals developing and delivering high impact projects for Visa’s largest partners. Consulting engagements will include new market sizing, new product development, P&L optimization, customer lifecycle management, credit and fraud risk, and digital strategy.

We are looking for motivated, analytic individuals with a track record of building a strong consultative team. You will develop enduring, strategic relationships with clients and across the Visa organization.

• Developing trusted advisor relationships with client senior executives through impactful consulting engagements
• Leading simultaneous client consulting engagement teams including initial client sales, problem disaggregation and planning, and quality assurance of final deliverable
• Actively engage with clients and Visa client leadership in regular strategic & planning discussions; nurture and lead a pipeline of work with clients
• Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations through the analysis of client data that effectively and authoritatively address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, analytics, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources
• Produce insights and analyses to improve client performance, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic mentorship for client priorities across the payment P&L
• Where employee is a subject matter authority, provide knowledge sharing, mentoring and training across functional teams and/or regions

We are looking for individuals with deep payment and consulting expertise to provide analysis and critical thinking to craft the services we deliver to clients, lead consulting engagements and develop actionable and scalable insights and solutions.

• Meaningful problem solving ability with strategic focus on impacting client return on investment
• Analytical skills, with validated intellectual rigor.
• Self-motivated, results oriented, with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Executive Presence including excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.
• Validated leadership, managerial and collaboration capabilities, particularly with those who are not direct reports as may be found in a matrixed organization
• Holds self and others accountable for measurable high quality, timely and effective results. Displays a dedication to organizational success
• Ability to identify strategic issues and to generate and deliver creative solutions to problems and opportunities.
• Experience in issuer business areas, such as portfolio management, marketing, product management, operations, risk management, for both credit and debit cards
• Understanding of factors in driving profitability and growth for Visa's issuer, acquirer and merchant clients
• Ability to influence and negotiate with executives

• Minimum of 15+ years of progressively more responsible business experience in management consulting and/or payment businesses
• BA/BS required. MBA preferred.
• Will have payments and consulting experience.
• Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel 25%+ domestically

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.