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The Director will be a member of Visa's Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Strategy Team, which is responsible for strategy development for Visa’s business in the LAC region. The position will be based in Miami with some travel expected.

Essential Functions

• Lead internal strategy consulting projects and workstreams for internal clients in LAC. Ongoing responsibilities may also include pricing and interchange analysis and development of proposals, implementation support and compliance.
• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues. Build out unique, creative and impactful solutions by integrating insights across Visa’s many expert functional resources and supporting collaborative solution development.
• Identify new revenue models and enhance existing in LAC markets to optimize net revenue growth and ensure sustainability of the business in Visa’s LAC region.
• Support the development of overall country strategies with a focus on pricing and interchange rate development for existing as well as new products, merchant segments and channels.
• Develop rigorous, fact-based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations. Ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations.
• Work closely with cross-functional and regional management teams on strategic projects, bringing timely and useful insight and analytical support.
• Develop clear and concise executive level communications. Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise and impactful way.

Basic Qualifications

• 10 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or
• 8 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or
• 3 years of work experience with a PhD degree

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or relevant graduate degree in finance or economics from top-tier institution or similar academic/professional experience.
• 8+ years total experience with 3-4+ years of post-graduate experience in management consulting or corporate strategy.
• Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments industry.
• Ability to independently lead and manage projects with multiple workstreams, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems.
• Ability to structure and manage complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at both senior and junior levels.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling.
• Experience working with economic theories, strategic and prioritization frameworks, scenarios analysis, and competitive assessments. Knowledge of payment industry revenue drivers a plus.
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior managers and external business partners.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a "peer" with functional and regional leaders within Visa.
• Commitment to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the corporate strategy function.
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities.
• Bilingual English/Spanish required, Portuguese a plus.

Physical Requirements

• This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, and reach with hands and arms.

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