Job Description
Team Summary Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's consulting division, serving Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact and tangible financial results. In Asia Pacific (AP), VCA has geographically focused teams and the Hub team which provides expertise in specific industry or functional verticals (Digital, Strategy, Risk, New Flows, Acquiring, Portfolio Optimization)
What a Manager, Strategy Practice, Visa Consulting & Analytics does at Visa:
We are looking for an individual to join us as a Manager in Visa Consulting and Analytics, Strategy Practice, based in Singapore. This individual will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for digital payments across Asia Pacific working closely with the Practice Lead, and the country teams. The Manager will be responsible for leading significant components of client consulting engagements, within the digital & strategy vertical. Typically, this will involve the Manager interacting with the client team, gathering and managing project inputs, analyzing data to form conclusions and recommendations, developing and presenting compelling project reports and working with clients on executing recommendations.
The Manager will also manage a pipeline of engagements from early lead stages through to signature, project kick-off and delivery. These engagements will vary greatly in scope and value and, although the pipeline will be driven mainly by traditional bank card issuers, the Consultant range will also encompass merchants, acquirers and processors; government entities; as well as new entrants and non-traditional players in the virtual and physical payments ecosystem.
Usually, 2-4 months in duration and running in parallel, potential projects could include payment strategy review and roadmap design, digital payments wallet assessment and launch, mobile banking App review and enhancement. It would also include driving strategy engagements on client portfolios powered by Visa’s data, collaborating closely with the data science teams on building data driven solutions to drive digitization and growth of payments with clients, development of industry landscape evaluations and best practices.
The Manager will be responsible for identifying potential clients’ business pain-points and areas for strategy and process improvement, thereby defining project scope deliverables and revenue opportunity to sell-in client engagement projects and building new practice solutions.
- The Visa Consulting Manager will deliver consulting support and projects to VISA's key clients across the AP region
- Understand our customers’ business objectives, needs, plans with the AP team in clusters/markets, and bring valuable insights
- Identify opportunities and potential for improvement to help Visa clients in growing their business
- Develop and propose appropriate strategies and business solutions to the clients and manage the delivery of high quality consultancy engagements in the region
- Management of internal and external project team members and gain consensus with others and coordinate team of consultants and subject matter experts around goal
- Support Consulting Team and the broader VCA AP team in achieving the goals across the clusters as well as to support Account Executives in subject expertise areas
- Leverage Visa’s innovation, product and data capabilities to further grow our clients’ business by working together with the sales and product teams as well as the Visa Innovation and Data Sciences team
Why this is important to Visa
With a rapid change in the payment landscape, new regulations around Open banking and Open data, new bank licenses and emergency of new fintech players – the payment ecosystem is rapidly evolving and our clients are looking to Visa as the payment experts to help them navigate through the opportunities and challenges that these changes pose. Visa with its global reach and clients across regions is seen as to be best placed to assist our clients sharing global trends and best practices as they try to solve strategic business problems and drive growth in payments through digitization. A new role within the Hub, we are looking for an individual to join us as Manager – Strategy Practice. The role will support and deliver projects across the AP region and will work on consulting engagements for Visa clients in driving client’s payments roadmap and digital strategies, enabling growth of digital payments and experiences, using the power of Visa data and analytics to solve clients pain points and solve business issues for our clients including
advising on growth partnership, product strategies, banking experience. These consulting engagements will help Visa clients address challenges and opportunities related to Digital customer engagement and Digital transformation. Consulting engagements will allow Visa clients define strategic directions, enhance channels and improve infrastructure and servicing.