Senior Consulting Manager

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

What it's all about -

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.  VCA's core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments. 

Reporting to the Director Visa Consulting & Analytics for multinational clients and data monetization, you will support and deliver projects for Visa clients and play a role in developing high impact projects for Visa clients in Central Europe.

As a Senior Manager, you will work within the Central European Consulting team, leading and delivering projects for our multinational clients in Central Europe. You will work towards the team’s goals and own the delivery of detailed data gathering, analysis, insight generation as well as the formulation of strategic and practical recommendations to enable the successful delivery of client projects.

Furthermore, you are also responsible for delivering internal projects, analysis and reports.

Specific Responsibilities include 

• Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to closing engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients. 

• Engage in regular strategic & planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of analytic work. 

• Develop analytical frameworks, approaches, solutions and data-led strategies that address impactful opportunities and challenges. 

• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, products, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources. 

• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues, and provide strategic mentorship for client priorities. 

• Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, standard methodology documents, and consulting approaches that can be applied across VCA practices. 

• Lead team to provide knowledge sharing, coaching and training as well as across functional teams and or regions in the role as an analytics subject matter expert. 

• Oversee multiple workstreams + project delivery, meeting objectives and timelines. 

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. 

Qualifications

What we'd like from you -

• Previous strategy & management consulting experience (preferably client-facing and project manager experience)

• Deep, hands-on expertise in the payments industry, particularly in one or more of the following: Acquiring & merchant services, PSPs & payment gateways, e‑commerce & digital payments, large merchant payment setups

• Strong strategic thinking, structuring, and storytelling skills

• High level of commercial acumen and value‑driven mindset

• Excellent analytical capabilities; ability to turn complex data into strategic insight

• Advanced PowerPoint and MS Office skills; Excel and data manipulation skills required

• Confident communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders

• Highly self‑driven, structured, and comfortable operating with autonomy

• Fluent in written and spoken English (additional languages considered as a plus)

• Knowledge of Visa Products, services and transaction flows (considered a plus)

• Understanding of transactional data, Visa data and alternative data sources (considered a plus)

Visa is an EEO Employer

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.