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Job Description
**What it's all about - **
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.
Reporting to the Director Visa Consulting & Analytics for multinational clients and data monetization, you will support and deliver projects for Visa clients and play a role in developing high impact projects for Visa clients in Central Europe.
As a Senior Manager, you will work within the Central European Consulting team, leading and delivering projects for our multinational clients in Central Europe. 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 the delivery as well as sales of consulting projects
- Runs several project engagements simultaneously
- 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
- Holds and manages client delivery presentations
- 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 Sales Teams)
- Identifies process improvements including repeatable and scalable solutions and shares knowledge and expertise with team members as required
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous strategy & management consulting experience (preferably client-facing and project manager experience)
- Deep experience in payment industry business (issuer, acquirer, psp, processor business)
- Strong problem-solving & story lining skills (research, market analysis, synthesis and recommendation)
- Commercial savviness – being able to spot opportunities and drive value for both Visa and 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)
- Understanding of transactional data, Visa data and alternative data sources (considered a plus)
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.