Director, Management Consultant, Visa Consulting

**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** Team Summary**
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's consulting division, serving Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact and tangible financial results. In Asia Pacific (AP), VCA has geographically focused teams and the Center of Excellence (COE) team which provides expertise in specific industry or functional verticals (Digital, Risk, Business Solutions and Sellers)

**What a Director, Management Consultant, Visa Consulting & Analytics for Regional Southeast Asia does at Visa**:
We are looking for an individual to join us as a Strategy SME in Visa Consulting and Analytics practice lead for Regional SEA team based in Singapore. This individual will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for payments strategy consulting across regional cluster comprising of Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia (IPVMC) working with the respective VCA Market leads. The Director will be responsible for significant components of client consulting engagements, and in some cases leading end-to-end delivery of these engagements, within the Strategy practice vertical. Typically, this will involve the Director 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.

Usually, 2-4 months in duration and running in parallel, potential projects could include payment strategy review and roadmap design etc. It would also include driving strategic engagement on client portfolios powered by Visa’s data, collaborating closely with the data science teams on building data driven solutions to drive growth of payments with clients, development of industry landscape evaluations and best practices.

Every day is different but a sample of the things you can expect to accomplish include:

- Project Leadership and Business Development: Lead the delivery of Strategic advisory engagements across the regional cluster (IPVMC)
- Business Development: Prepare client proposals and project plans, identifying dependencies, roles and responsibilities, scope and deliverables
- Revenue goals: Be responsible for achieving Payment Strategy practice advisory revenue goals
- Thought Leadership & Solution Development: Collaborate with the Asia Pacific Hub Payment Strategy Practice in the development of thought leadership, solution set plays and other assets that Visa’s market teams can use to scale and deliver impact to the payment landscape

**Why this is important to Visa**

With a rapid change in the payment landscape, new regulations around Open banking and Open data, new bank licenses and emergency of new fintech players - the payment ecosystem is rapidly evolving and our clients are looking to Visa as the payment experts to help them navigate through the opportunities and challenges that these changes pose. Visa with its global reach and clients across regions is seen as to be best placed to assist our clients sharing global trends and best practices as they try to solve strategic business problems and drive growth in payments.
**Qualifications**
Essential specific skill set and experience required:

- Minimum 12 years’ relevant experience in consulting, corporate strategy, or business management
- Good knowledge of the digital payments industry landscape and developments, consumer trends and regulatory changes in Asia Pacific and globally
- Excellent client relationship management with strong sales orientation, experience selling major projects/ideas to senior management
- Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
- Strong team orientation, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, able to work effectively in a matrixed organization
- Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and written capabilities
- Self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to progress multiple projects concurrently
- Experience in and passion for the power of analytics to inform and drive strateg