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.
The VCA team within Australia provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients in Australia and New Zealand, that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management and digital strategy.
The Role
We are currently looking for a Sr. Manager to lead VCA’s Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) Practice for the AuNZSP region. The CMS Practice supports our clients to create and launch market-leading business payments solutions, derive greater value from the active management of their existing business cards portfolios, and identify new strategic growth opportunities.
As the Practice lead, the Sr. Manager will be responsible for growing the CMS Practice through business development, leading and delivering consulting engagements, and developing new solutions to continuously enhance and diversify the Practice’s client offerings.
In this role, the Sr. Manager will lead a small team of consultants and collaborate with cross-functional experts across Visa’s business to jointly develop client proposals, participate in client sales activities and ensure client engagements are delivered with excellence. The full range of responsibilities are detailed below:
Responsibilities
On a project-by-project basis:
- Prepare client project proposals, clarifying objectives, scope, deliverables, approach, dependencies, roles and responsibilities, draw input from clients, local client relationship managers and functional teams
- Oversee project setup including contracting documentation, stakeholder engagement, interview guides and client data requirements
- Develop a fact base by undertaking client interviews, collecting and analysing inputs such as client data, process flows, policies, competitive, industry and environmental information
- Analyse Visa and client data to conduct benchmarking, identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with data science team members to leverage data analytics capabilities
- Manage execution of one or more project engagements, building client relationships, utilising governance frameworks and mitigating or resolving complex problems that emerge
- Identify solutions and recommendations that address client objectives and result in performance improvement, leverage relevant VCA methodologies, frameworks and global best practices
- Design and deliver compelling presentations to illustrate findings, ideas, recommendations within consulting engagements and more broadly and at times support implementation at the client onsite
More generally:
- Identify and surface opportunities for client projects
- Create, develop and maintain VCA IP and consulting offerings
- Continuously build knowledge, surface new insights and produce thought leadership pieces that contribute to practice development and global best practice
