Description
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa’s external-facing consulting organization, combining strategy, data, and industry expertise to help clients improve performance.
We are seeking a Senior Manager to lead complex client engagements and help grow the Cybersecurity Advisory practice. This senior individual-contributor role requires cybersecurity expertise, consulting leadership, executive communication, and the ability to turn technical and business evidence into practical recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Lead cybersecurity advisory engagements from discovery and scoping through analysis, recommendations, executive presentation, and close.
- Assess cybersecurity strategies, governance models, architectures, capabilities, controls, and resilience practices across varied client environments.
- Evaluate technical findings, control evidence, architecture artifacts, security metrics, and stakeholder input to identify risks, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
- Translate complex cybersecurity issues into clear business, operational, financial, and customer implications.
- Develop evidence-based recommendations and pragmatic roadmaps that consider risk, business priorities, technical dependencies, implementation feasibility, and client maturity.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior cybersecurity, risk, fraud, technology, operations, payments, and business stakeholders.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and provide project-based direction, coaching, and quality oversight.
- Maintain accountability for engagement quality, timelines, risks, stakeholder alignment, and outcomes.
- Drive business development through consultative discovery, opportunity shaping, proposal development, pricing inputs, and client presentations.
- Help develop advisory offerings, methodologies, tools, and thought leadership.
Qualifications
- Basic Qualifications:
+ 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
- Preferred Qualifications:
+ 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD + Experience in cybersecurity consulting, cybersecurity risk management, information security, technology risk, or a related field. + Experience leading client-facing consulting engagements or complex cybersecurity workstreams. + Demonstrated depth in cybersecurity risk management and experience across multiple domains, such as security architecture, cloud or application security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, data protection, incident response, threat intelligence, or cyber resilience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
Salary
- Estimated salary range for this position is $138,300.00 to $ 221,600.00 USD per year.