Senior Consultant - Visa Consulting and Analytics

  • Full-time

Company Description

Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology?

Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?

You’ll fit right in.

Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

 Think you know us?

Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

Job Description

If you think you could support Visa as an Senior Consultant, VCA, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

Business Group Overview
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa's clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

The Asia Pacific Consulting Practice applies 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 marketing, strategic growth, profitability, digital payments and risk.

Position Summary
The Senior Consultant will enable portfolio growth and improved profitability in clients’ credit and debit payment card business.

Potential projects could include portfolio management diagnostics, assessments of digital product and marketing strategies, development of industry landscape evaluations and best practices, and optimising client customer experience and supporting processes. 

Working with the Senior Director and collaborating with other team members in VCA and Visa Asia Pacific, the Consultant will draw on their deep domain knowledge and expertise to provide recommendations to clients, work that will enable enduring, strategic relationships with our clients.

What we expect of you, day to day

  • Identify and surface opportunities for client projects and submit for inclusion into plans.
  • Design performance solutions to client requirements, striving for innovative and efficient approaches.
  • Undertake client projects, including project road mapping, client interviewing, analytical review of inputs, structuring of recommendations, report writing.
  • Bring deep subject matter expertise to bear in undertaking engagements such as portfolio strategy, portfolio diagnostics, and Acquisition and Loyalty program health checks.
  • Create, develop and maintain models, contribute to IP creation and standardised VCA offerings
  • Conceive and brief to the Analytics team projects including segmentation, propensity models, and other intelligent targeting solutions.
  • Defining the scope, understanding clients objectives, framing the problem or opportunity
  • Collecting and analysing input such as client information, interviews, data, processes,policies, competitive and environmental information
  • Synthesising analysis to determine gaps, issues, opportunities
  • Identifying solutions such as strategies, tactics or programs of activity
  • Recommending approaches, providing guidance and at times physically supporting implementation at the client site
  • Facilitate meetings and workshops as an element of client engagements, to enable creative problem solving and/or transfer domain knowledge, helping clients to realise project objectives across multiple client teams/functions.
  • Foster partnership with other internal functional areas, ensuring alignment of opportunities and recommendations particularly with product functionality and availability.
  • Where employee is a subject matter expert, provide knowledge sharing, coaching and training across functional teams and/or regions.

Qualifications

What we're after... 

You will have gained a variety of experience in the payments industry, including card issuing, and be passionate about an aspect that you have gained deeper expertise in, be it loyalty, product, credit risk, operations or another vertical. You will comfortably pivot from strategy development to program execution. Whilst you will work closely with the Senior Director to frame client engagements, you will confidently take the lead in client interactions

Specific requirements are:

  • Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and
  • analytical rigor
  • Must be team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, able to work effectively in matrixed organisation
  • Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
  • Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
  • Confident meeting and facilitation skills
  • Ability to negotiate with senior executives
  • Intellectual versatility, able to traverse domain topics
  • Experience in and passion for the power of analytics to inform and drive strategy and tactics, and proven ability to generate insights from data


In addition, you will have:

  • High level of experience in retail banking, card issuing or consulting to retail banks
  • Some consulting experience preferred with project management and/or process re-engineering credentials helpful
  • Experience in payment card portfolio management and cardholder marketing
  • Understanding of card issuers’ P&L and critical factors
  • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Be very detail oriented, ensuring the highest level of quality/rigor in reports and data analysis
  • An understanding of statistical analysis, modeling, scoring schemes, etc.
  • Confident meeting and workshop facilitation skills
  • Excellent project management skills
  • Strong academic credentials, with relevant undergraduate degree and MBA or graduate degree preferred, or hold equivalent professional experience 
  • Willingness to travel (30%)
     

Additional Information

Visa Consulting & Analytics, and the greater Visa organization is a truly global company that consists of employees from a wide variety of cultures, countries, and skill sets. The Visa culture is driven by the Visa Leadership Principles. By being a part of the Visa organization, you will have significant exposure to the diversity of people, cultures, and knowledge which will offer strong personal growth as well as professional growth.

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.

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