Description
Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is seeking a Consulting Practice Lead to join our team in the Andean region. As a Consulting Practice Lead, you will play a key role in delivering and implementing projects and solutions with issuers, merchants, acquirers, neobanks, and fintechs.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively engage with consulting and client leadership in regular strategic and planning discussions
- Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that address the most impactful opportunities and challenges
- Partner with peers in other functional areas to implement projects
- Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance
- Participate in the sales process to qualify opportunities
- Deliver consulting engagements, including managing a team of consultants
- Manage various systems of record for pricing approvals, internal routing, legal/funding approvals, and accurate revenue recognition
- Develop and deliver client-ready presentations
- Lead advisory initiatives and be the main source of strategic insight and direction to the team
- Use data to manage risks and uncover improvement opportunities
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 8+ years with an Advanced Degree
- Preferred qualifications include 12+ years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 8-10 years with an Advanced Degree
- 5+ years of experience working in the payments industry
- Educational background in a quantitative field such as engineering, economics, computer science, business administration, or finance
- Extensive client-facing experience with proven ability to interact and present effectively to senior management
- Demonstrated executive presence with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proven leadership and managerial skills
- In-depth knowledge of payment schemes
- Highly collaborative with experience working with geographically distributed teams
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Bi-lingual (English and Spanish)