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Job Description Team Summary Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa's clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operations and macroeconomics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. The VCA team within Japan provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients in Japan, that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management and digital strategy. What a Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics does at Visa: This role in Japan will be responsible for delivering consulting engagements for our financial institution clients in Japan, enabling growth and improved profitability across their payments business. A Consulting Manager is responsible for significant components of client engagements, and in some cases end to end delivery. Typically, this will involve interacting with the client team, gathering and managing project inputs, analyzing data to form conclusions and recommendations, developing and presenting compelling project reports and working with clients on executing recommendations. The full range of responsibilities are detailed below: Responsibilities
- Support the preparation of client project proposals, providing input to objectives, scope, deliverables, approach, dependencies, roles and responsibilities
- Develop a fact base by undertaking client interviews and analyzing client documentation or processes
- Analyze Visa and client data to benchmark client performance vs. industry averages to identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with data science team to leverage advanced data analytics capabilities
- Collaborate with the hub team, broader global team, or other functional teams to obtain specific subject matter expertise as needed
- Identify solutions and recommendations that address client objectives and result in performance improvement, leveraging relevant VCA methodologies, frameworks, and global best practices
- Design and deliver compelling presentations to illustrate findings, ideas, recommendations within consulting engagements and more broadly
- Support implementation of VCA recommendations or client initiatives, using project management and problem-solving frameworks
- 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD
- 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
- Having already accumulated a variety of experience, you will be curious about the payments industry and keen to work alongside an experienced team to quickly gain 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.
- Fluent Japanese and at least business level English proficiency
- Deep experience and a track record of high performance in strategy consulting or corporate strategy
- 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/rigor 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 developing business cases with proven ROI
- Experience in payments, the retail banking industry, or technology
- PMP certification or experience in technical project management
- Experience in customer experience design (using human-centered design / design thinking)
- An understanding of statistical analysis, modelling, scoring schemes, etc.
- Client engagements, generally delivered together with our data science team, are typically 2-4 months in duration, run in parallel, and fall in to six broad practice areas.
About the Company
VISA
Foster City, CA, United States
At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. As our products and... Read more