Description
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa's clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants. The VCA team within Japan provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to clients in Japan, addressing unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management, customer engagement, portfolio optimization and digital strategy.
As a Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics, you will be responsible for delivering consulting engagements for financial institution clients in Japan, enabling growth and improved profitability across their payments business. You will interact with the client team, gather and manage project inputs, analyze data to form conclusions and recommendations, develop and present compelling project reports, and work with clients on executing recommendations.
Responsibilities:
- Support the preparation of client project proposals
- Develop a fact base by undertaking client interviews and analyzing client documentation or processes
- Analyze Visa and client data to benchmark client performance vs. industry averages
- Collaborate with data science team to leverage advanced data analytics capabilities
- Identify solutions and recommendations that address client objectives and result in performance improvement
- Contribute to engagements across a broad range of acquiring/merchant topics
- Proactively drive project workstreams and move engagements forward with strong ownership
- Design and deliver compelling presentations to illustrate findings, ideas, and recommendations
- Support implementation of VCA recommendations or client initiatives
Qualifications:
- Fluent Japanese and business-level English proficiency
- Proven ability to develop and execute a strategy
- 6 to 8 years or more of experience in strategy/management consulting or corporate strategy
- Self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to progress multiple priorities concurrently
- Strong ownership and drive, with the ability to proactively lead workstreams and push projects forward with limited direction
- Passion for Visa and client business, technology innovation, with high energy and intelligence
- Experience in building and maintaining strong client relationships
- Ability to collaborate with partners both internally and externally
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
- Excellent detail orientation, ensuring the highest level of quality/rigor in reports and data analysis
- Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and written capabilities