Visa

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job 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.

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 Manger, 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 our local Visa’s issuer, acquirers, and merchants.

The team is looking for a Senior Manger Consultant to join our practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the N&B region. This role is responsible for selling, 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 can we help a merchant grow their sales by understand their share of wallet in the market and for different segments?
• What should a new payments strategy for a financial institution look like to be relevant in the rapid changing landscape?
• How can we help new clients and FinTech’s in developing their payments business to capture new revenue flows?

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.
• 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 analyse 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
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., sales, marketing, 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).

Qualifications

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
• Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills
• Ability to travel up to 30%
• Technology mindset, curious, up-to-date with digital trends and applications

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.