Description
Visa's Asia Pacific Corporate Strategy team based in Singapore plays a key role in shaping Visa's long-term strategy in the region and solving for regional and country-specific opportunities and challenges.
As a Senior Director of Corporate Strategy, you will be a member of Visa's AP Corporate Strategy team, which is responsible for development of regional and market-specific strategy efforts. You will work with and support key areas of the business – both across functions and geographies – in conducting analysis to support development of strategies in alignment with the regional and global priorities.
Responsibilities include:
- Developing regional and market-specific strategy efforts
- Conducting analysis to support development of strategies
- Supporting regional business planning needs
- Monitoring of competitive developments across the region / globally
- Developing timely response to emerging trends and opportunities across AP
- Leading end-to-end strategy efforts independently or with a small team of analysts
- Working closely with senior stakeholders to understand and logically structure the problem, develop hypothesis, work with cross-functional teams to validate the hypothesis, develop strategy to address the problem, and develop recommendations and execution plan to present to the AP Regional President and the leadership team
Requirements:
- Bachelor or Master's degree preferably in Economics, Business or similar fields
- 15+ years of experience in leading strategy projects at top-tier Management Consulting firms or in a Corporate Strategy group in a multinational environment
- Pro-active and effective communicator, experienced in presenting information to all levels and with ability to facilitate group discussions and debate
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and proven experience of project management
- Strong interpersonal and execution skills
- Strong analytical and strategic acumen
- Excellent presentation and verbal and written communication skills
- Able to manage work in different time zones effectively
- Ability to be recognized as thought leader
- Ability to influence the organization in order to make strategy happen
- Professional, confident and outgoing with the ability to maintain good communication with wide internal and external audiences
- Team player possessing a strong drive to add value to the business direction
- Highly numerate with attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze databases and strong knowledge of financial modelling, scenario-building and analysis
Nice to have:
- Financial Services / FinTech / Payment industry experience
- Broad understanding / experience in financial services and / or payments