Senior Consulting Manager

About Us 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, 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.

Job Description

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.

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.

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

What’s it all about?

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 Nordics and Baltics (N&B) Consulting Practice within VCA provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s issuer, acquirers and merchants in the Nordics and Baltics. We apply our deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities drive growth and improve profitability.

The team is looking for a Senior Manager to join our strategic consulting practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the N&B region. This role is responsible for delivering and implementing projects and solutions and will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both, the preferred brand and unique business partner.

Typical projects may include:

• How does an issuer expand or increase market share in consumer market?
• How should a credit card issuer use emerging technology to acquire the best customers?
• How does an issuer expand their credit card portfolio while mitigating credit risk?
• How does an issuer optimize their revenues?
• How do we enable increases spend in specific segments?

What we expect of you, day to day

• Leads consulting initiatives and contributes to closing engagement by identifying potential opportunities with large banks/financial institutions.
• Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Build solutions and actionable insights that will help clients to grow their portfolios
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., sales and solutions, marketing, sales, risk, innovation, products) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources
• Proactively engage with Visa leaders in regular strategic & planning discussions; cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with FIs (Financial Institutions).
• Produce insights, analyses and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the verticals and segments
• Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for clients
• Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approach that can be applied across VCA practice

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• What we’re after…
• Educated to Bachelor's degree (Economics, analytics, business related fields), MBA/Masters level preferred
• Substantial relevant experience at a large management consulting firm or similar role at Banks/FIs
• Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and/ or payments, including products & services, business systems and processes and marketing initiatives
• Able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with internal and external clients and across the Visa organization.
• Experience working with financial indicators to measure business performance with a focus on impacting ROI
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to use data to convey a clear message to clients and the business
• Ability to solve business problems through data driven methodologies
• Proficiency and continuous skills development in some leading edge analytic and business intelligence tools, e.g. SAS, R, SPSS, Tableau, Business Objects and MicroStrategy
• Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills
• Team player
• Ability to travel up to 30%
• Technology mindset, curious, up-to-date with digital trends and applications

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.