Manager, Corporate Strategy

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
**Team Summary**:
Visa’s Asia-Pacific Corporate Strategy team based in Singapore plays a key role in shaping Visa’s long-term strategy in the region and solving for regional and country-specific opportunities and challenges, in partnership with executives and business leaders across Visa’s organization. Recent initiatives have addressed topics such as market strategy, product strategy, multi-year planning, and organic / inorganic growth opportunities across the region. The team is also responsible for developing thought leadership on emerging trends in payments industry.

**What a Corporate Strategy Manager does at Visa**:
Corporate Strategy Manager plays a key role in supporting delivery of key strategic initiatives across the region. Specific responsibilities include:

- Lead or support work streams on projects related to AP region’s strategy, competitive analysis, multi-year planning, business development, etc.
- Structure and solve business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues. Build out unique, creative and impactful solutions by integrating insights across Visa's many expert functional resources and supporting collaborative solution development
- Develop rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations. Ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations
- Work closely with cross-functional and regional management teams on strategic projects, bringing timely and useful insight and analytical support
- Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise and impactful way

**Why this is important to Visa**:
The Corporate Strategy Manager is a key player in the Visa Asia-Pacific Corporate Strategy team helping the region define and achieve its near-term and long-term strategic priorities. The Manager will work as part of the core team helping drive critical qualitative and quantitative analysis to support the formulation of our strategy. It’s a high visibility and high responsibility role given the strategic nature of team’s work in the region.

**Projects you will be a part of**:
As part of the Corporate Strategy Team, you will get the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects of strategic importance to Visa globally and regionally. These may include but not limited to Country strategies, Multi-Year Planning, Go-To-Market strategies, support for M&A efforts, studying new emerging trends in payments, and developing market and competitive studies, etc.

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

**Qualifications**:

- 8 years’ experience in a management consulting firm or similar experience in a multinational doing strategy, planning and financial analysis
- Experience in the payments industry highly preferred
- Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, with ability to participate in complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to develop content independently and prioritize deliverables and projects to meet timelines efficiently and ability to adapt to changes in priorities quickly
- Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling
- Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
- Complete team player, able to work across cultures, upholds and promotes highest ethical standards and mutual respect in the workplace

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in Singapore are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable a