# Director, Visa Consulting & Analytics

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Johannesburg, South Africa
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Director is part of the Visa Consulting & Analytics team which delivers high impact advisory and implementation projects to Visa’s clients across Southern Eastern Africa (SEA) and West Central Africa (WCA).

**Client Engagement and Proposal Development**

- Build senior client relationships across banks, merchants and fintechs.

- Understand client objectives, strategic priorities, implementation needs, technology requirements, and delivery constraints.

- Convert clients need proposals, statements of work, roadmaps, delivery plans, commercials, and implementation timelines.

- Lead and support VCA pitches, presentations, and proposal development, using a consultative sales approach.

**Engagement Delivery and Program Management**

- Structure and deliver complex consulting and implementation engagements end-to-end, ensuring clear problem definitions, hypotheses, and workplans.

- Stand up and manage large regional and Pan-African VCA programs, overseeing planning, governance, risk management, and closure.

- Lead multi-disciplinary delivery teams across Visa and client stakeholders, ensuring alignment, timely execution, and high-quality outputs.

**Operating Model, Pipeline, and Practice Development**

- Develop and improve the regional VCA operating model, methodologies, playbooks, templates, dashboards, and delivery standards.

- Improve intake, discovery, proposal development, sourcing, onboarding, governance, reporting, quality assurance, and post-implementation review.

- Collaborate with Visa teams to cultivate opportunities and manage the VCA pipeline across priority clients, markets, and product areas.

- Contribute to thought leadership and knowledge-sharing initiatives within VCA and across regions.

**Key Measures of Success**

- Strong VCA opportunity pipeline conversion.

- Practical, high-quality proposals, statements of work, roadmaps, and delivery plans.

- Delivery to agreed scope, timelines, quality standards, and outcomes.

- Strong senior client relationships and increased demand for VCA support.

## Skills

### Required
- consulting
- program management
- stakeholder management
- operating model improvement
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint

### Nice to have
- card operations
- digital payments
- product implementation
- portfolio management
- client operations
- African markets experience
- regional and global experience

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