# Director, Visa Consulting & Analytics

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Tokyo
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's global consulting organization, helping clients solve strategic business challenges through payments expertise, data-driven insights, and consulting capabilities.

The Director will lead consulting engagements and client relationships with leading financial institutions, merchants, and ecosystem partners in Japan. This role requires strong consulting, problem-solving, project leadership, and business development capabilities.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead strategic consulting engagements focused on payments, portfolio growth, customer acquisition, customer engagement, loyalty, digital transformation, and business growth

- Serve as a strategic advisor to major financial institutions and ecosystem partners in Japan, helping clients accelerate growth, strengthen customer value propositions, and drive business transformation

- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and provide strategic recommendations to support clients' business objectives

- Develop data-driven insights and executive-level presentations to address complex business challenges

- Lead cross-functional project teams and ensure successful delivery of consulting engagements with high quality and measurable client impact

- Collaborate closely with Visa account executives and product specialists to identify client needs and develop new consulting opportunities

- Contribute to the growth of Visa Consulting & Analytics by supporting revenue generation, client development, and thought leadership initiatives

- Mentor and coach consultants and managers to strengthen team capabilities and support professional development

- Work collaboratively across Visa functions, including Product, Marketing, Data Science, Risk, Client Services, and Sales teams.

**Qualifications**

- Demonstrated experience in client-facing consulting roles with at least 5 years of consulting experience

- Proven ability to structure complex business problems and develop actionable recommendations for clients

- Demonstrated experience leading complex client-facing engagements and managing executive stakeholder relationships

- Experience presenting recommendations and influencing decisions at C-level executive and senior management levels

- Strong strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, and communication skills

- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities in a dynamic environment

- Native-level Japanese and business-level English communication skills.

## Skills

### Required
- consulting
- problem-solving
- project leadership
- business development
- strategic thinking
- analytical problem-solving
- communication skills
- Japanese
- English

### Nice to have
- strategic consulting
- corporate strategy
- business transformation
- financial services
- payments
- banking
- fintech
- digital commerce
- data and analytics
- growth strategies
- product strategies
- customer engagement strategies
- loyalty strategies
- mentoring

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