Consulting Director, Visa Consulting & Analytics, AUNZSP

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Sales

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Team Summary
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's consulting division, serving Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability.  Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact and tangible financial results.

The VCA team within Australia provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients in Australia and New Zealand, that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management and digital strategy.        
What a Consulting Director does at Visa:

VCA is looking for a Consulting Director to lead consulting engagements for our clients in Australia and New Zealand, enabling portfolio growth and improved profitability across their payment businesses.

Typically, 2-4 months in duration and running in parallel, potential projects could include portfolio management diagnostics, assessments of digital product and marketing strategies, product design and launch, development of industry landscape evaluations to inform payments strategies, and optimisation of client customer experience and supporting processes. 

The Director will be responsible for identifying new business development opportunities, leading client engagements, and delivering recommendations. Typically, this will involve the Director interacting with the client team and internal staff, gathering, and managing project inputs, analysing data to form conclusions and recommendations, developing and presenting compelling project reports and working with clients on executing recommendations.  At times, the Director will support business development activities by writing proposals and scoping new projects.  The full range of responsibilities are detailed below:

Responsibilities
On a project-by-project basis:

  • Prepare client project proposals, clarifying objectives, scope, deliverables, approach, dependencies, roles and responsibilities; draw input from clients, local client relationship managers and functional teams
  • Oversee project setup including contracting documentation, stakeholder engagement, interview guides and client data requirements
  • Develop a fact base by undertaking client interviews, collecting, and analysing inputs such as client data, process flows, policies, competitive, industry and environmental information
  • Analyse Visa and client data to conduct benchmarking, identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities
  • Collaborate with data science team members to leverage advanced data analytics capabilities
  • Manage execution of one or more project engagements, building client relationships, utilising governance frameworks and mitigating / resolving complex problems that emerge
  • Identify solutions and recommendations that address client objectives and result in performance improvement; leverage relevant VCA methodologies, frameworks, and global best practices
  • Design and deliver compelling presentations to illustrate findings, ideas, recommendations within consulting engagements and more broadly, at times support implementation at the client onsite

More generally:

  • Identify and surface opportunities for client projects and submit for inclusion into account plans
  • Create, develop and maintain models, contribute to IP creation and standardised VCA offerings
  • Continuously build knowledge, surface new insights, and produce thought leadership pieces that contribute to practice development and global best practice

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office three set days a week, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Having already accumulated a variety of experience, you will be familiar with the payments industry and keen to work alongside an experienced team in gaining a deeper understanding. You will be client driven, comfortable managing a project end to end and relishing the opportunity to work closely with clients to influence their future performance.

Specific skills and experience you will bring are:
• 12+ years of deep experience in consulting, corporate strategy, or business management with a Bachelor’s Degree
• Deep experience in managing complex projects and simultaneously managing multiple projects
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Strong team orientation with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style; able to work effectively in a matrixed organization
• Excellent detail orientation, ensuring the highest level of quality/rigour in reports and data analysis
• Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and written capabilities
• Self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to progress multiple priorities concurrently
• Experience in and passion for the power of analytics to inform and drive strategy and tactics, and proven ability to generate insights from data
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience in working on business/value cases that prove ROI

In addition, you will ideally bring the following:
• Experience in payments or retail banking industry
• Experience in developing strategy (for products or business units)
• Experience in customer experience design (using human centred design / design thinking)
• An understanding of statistical analysis, modelling, scoring schemes, etc.

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.
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