# Consulting Director

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

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## Description

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa's clients. The VCA team within Japan provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to clients in Japan. As a Consulting Director, you will serve as the senior-most consumer payments consulting leader within an account-dedicated team and act as a trusted advisor to senior client and Visa stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the strategic direction and end-to-end impact of a portfolio of complex account-dedicated engagements

- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client executives and Visa leaders

- Lead engagement and program design across multiple workstreams

- Set the problem-solving approach and provide clear direction to consulting team members

- Take accountability for delivery quality and implementation impact

- Develop a robust fact base using client interviews, Visa and client data, market benchmarks and relevant global best practices

- Mobilize One Visa capabilities across VCA, CRM, Product, Data Science, regional/global Hub teams and other functions

- Lead executive-level presentations, workshops, steering committees and difficult conversations

- Own the development of a healthy consumer payments consulting pipeline

- Manage engagement economics, scope and resource deployment

- Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and quality guidance to project teams

Qualifications:

- Full professional proficiency in Japanese and business-level English

- Typically 12 or more years of relevant experience

- Demonstrated ability to lead multiple complex engagements or workstreams concurrently

- Proven success building trusted relationships with senior executives

- Strong One Visa leadership

- Exceptional structured problem-solving and analytical rigor

- Ability to identify the critical issues across an engagement portfolio

- Strong commercial and business acumen

- Proven ability to translate analytics into actionable recommendations

- Demonstrated accountability for delivery excellence

- Excellent executive communication, storytelling, facilitation, negotiation and presentation skills

## Skills

### Required
- Japanese
- English
- strategy consulting
- management consulting
- consumer payments
- card portfolio strategy
- customer growth
- profitability improvement

### Nice to have
- cards
- retail banking
- financial services
- technology
- digital transformation
- data analytics

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