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

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa clients. Drawing on our expertise in strategy & management consulting, data science & analytics, marketing, operations and technology, VCA solves strategic problems and sees opportunities for Visa’s issuers, acquirers and merchants.

As a Senior Manager, you will work within the Central European Consulting team, leading and delivering projects for our clients in Germany. You will work towards the team’s goals and own the delivery of detailed data gathering, analysis, insight generation as well as the formulation of strategic and practical recommendations to enable the successful delivery of client projects.

Furthermore, you are also responsible for delivering internal projects, analysis and reports. 

What we expect of you, day to day.

- Manages and/or supports the delivery as well as sales of consulting projects

- Develops and maintains project plans, content scope and final deliverables for projects namely

Prepare presentations and reports

Conduct data analysis

Review relevant reports and information sources

Conduct benchmarking from different internal/external sources and desktop research

Deliver reports and presentations communicating recommended approaches, often with the support of a project team in preparing these deliverables

- Effectively communicates and liaises project findings with internal and external clients at various levels of seniority and function

- Serves as a day-to-day client contact, collaborating closely with clients throughout the project lifecycle

- Supports the Visa Central Europe Consulting team to source new projects. Liaises with other parts of the Visa Europe business, where appropriate, for projects scoping and completion (e.g. the Regional Managing Directors, Business Development and German sales team incl. Country Manager)

- Identifies process improvements including repeatable and scalable solutions and shares knowledge and expertise with team members as required

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 60% or more of the time based on

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous strategy & management consulting experience (preferably client-
facing and project manager experience)
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Central European and German payments
business and/or financial services incl. innovation driving the digital banking
and retail industries in the Central European markets
• Strong Problem-Solving & Storylining Skills (research, market analysis,
synthesis and recommendation)
• Commercial Savviness – being able to spot opportunities and drive value for
both Visa its Clients
• Self-starter, pro-active and attention to detail
• Ability to collaborate closely with multiple internal and external clients at
various levels within the business
• Excellent PowerPoint/MS Office skills
• Sophisticated data analysis skills (ability to use Excel, databases and data
manipulation including SQL) preferred
• Fluent in written and spoken German and English
• Knowledge of Visa Products, services and transaction flows (considered a
plus)
• Excellent understanding of transactional data, Visa data and alternative data
sources (considered a plus)

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.