Senior Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA), Core Consulting Practice

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

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.  VCA's core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments.

Specific Responsibilities include

• Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to closing engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients.
• Engage in regular strategic & planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of analytic work.
• Develop analytical frameworks, approaches, solutions and data-led strategies that address impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, products, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources.
• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues, and provide strategic mentorship for client priorities.
• Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, standard methodology documents, and consulting approaches that can be applied across VCA practices.
• Lead team to provide knowledge sharing, coaching and training as well as across functional teams and or regions in the role as an analytics subject matter expert.
• Oversee multiple workstreams + project delivery, meeting objectives and timelines.
• Translate data and analytics into clear strategic insights and recommendations that help clients improve performance, address business challenges, and identify opportunities across the payments P&L.
• Manage multiple complex engagements and commercial priorities simultaneously, balancing client expectations, internal stakeholders, resources, timelines, and quality of delivery.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, translating complex client business needs, data, and assumptions into structured recommendations and executable plans.
• Contribute to the development and scaling of VCA capabilities, including new solutions, frameworks, toolkits, best practices, and reusable consulting approaches that can be leveraged across markets and clients.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams, helping structure complex engagements, ensuring quality of deliverables, and supporting the development of consultants and managers involved in project execution.
• Take ownership of the commercial performance of the assigned portfolio, contributing to pipeline development, engagement conversion, revenue growth, and expansion of VCA relationships with priority clients.
• Identify opportunities to scale successful approaches across clients and markets, connecting local client needs with regional VCA priorities and broader Visa capabilities.

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

Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree.
• 5+ years of experience in payments, financial services, consulting, or a related industry, with strong exposure to merchant acquiring, acceptance, cards, or payments strategy.
• Demonstrated experience in strategy and/or management consulting, including leading complex engagements, structuring ambiguous business problems, developing data-driven recommendations, and applying consulting methodologies.
• Strong commercial orientation and business development capabilities, with experience identifying client needs, shaping opportunities, developing scopes of work, and contributing to pipeline development and engagement conversion.
• Proven project leadership capabilities, with the ability to lead multiple complex engagements simultaneously, manage senior stakeholders, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive execution against agreed objectives and timelines.
• Passionate, self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently.
• Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and/or payment schemes, including products & services, business systems and processes, and marketing initiatives.
• Excellent client relationship management skills and ability to develop a credible point of view on a variety of industry topics, acting as a trusted advisor.
• Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
• Executive presence including excellent communication and presentations skills, written and verbal, and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.
• Demonstrated leadership, managerial and collaboration capabilities, particularly with those who are not direct reports as may be found in a matrixed organization.
• Experience in several key payments business areas, such as portfolio management, marketing, product management, operations, risk management, for both credit and debit cards.
• Experience using financial indicators to measure business performance with a significant focus on impacting return on investment.
• Ideal candidate will have payments and consulting experience
• Bi-lingual (English/Spanish)

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passionate, self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently.

• Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and/or payment schemes, including products & services, business systems and processes, and marketing initiatives.

• Excellent client relationship management skills and ability to develop a credible point of view on a variety of industry topics, acting as a trusted advisor.

• Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.

• Executive presence including excellent communication and presentations skills, written and verbal, and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.

• Demonstrated leadership, managerial and collaboration capabilities, particularly with those who are not direct reports as may be found in a matrixed organization.

• Experience in several key payments business areas, such as portfolio management, marketing, product management, operations, risk management, for both credit and debit cards.

• Experience using financial indicators to measure business performance with a significant focus on impacting return on investment.

• Ideal candidate will have payments and consulting experience

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.