Client Consulting Manager, Payments & Analytics Strategy

Visa; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) Australia, NZ and Pacific Islands is seeking a Client Consulting Manager based in Sydney for a 12-month maternity leave contract. You will lead engagements, develop project plans, and drive end-to-end delivery with multi-disciplinary teams across payments and strategy.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in consulting or corporate strategy, experience in payments, strong analytics and leadership skills, and proficiency with AI tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in consulting or corporate strategy.
• Experience in payments or financial services.
• Experience in consumer banking.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
• Strong proficiency with AI tools (Microsoft CoPilot, Claude).
• Strong team orientation, collaborative, flexible, able to work effectively in a matrixed organization and enjoys learning through new challenges.
• Superior detail orientation, ensuring the highest level of quality/rigor in reports and data analysis.
• Experience in and passion for the power of analytics to yield insights and a proven ability to build models in Microsoft Excel to support business cases.
• Exposure to customer experience design (using human centered design / design thinking).

Responsibilities

• Prepare client proposals and project plans, identifying dependencies, roles and responsibilities, scope and outcomes / deliverables.
• Prepare project materials including interview guides, data requirements, concepts, frameworks.
• Undertake client interview, collecting and analysing inputs such as client information, data, processes, policies, competitive and environmental information.
• Create compelling PowerPoint presentations to illustrate findings, ideas, recommendations within consulting engagements and more broadly.
• Manage junior team members such as Associates, Analysts and Interns.
• Ensure project engagements remain on track, utilising governance frameworks and mitigating / resolving complex problems that emerge during engagements.
• Identify solutions and recommendations that address client objectives and result in performance improvement.
• Continuously build knowledge, drive new initiatives and support thought leadership pieces.
• Collaborate with local client relationship managers/other functional teams to gain insights and support client engagement and execution.

Skills

Consulting experience

Payments knowledge

Analytical skills

Team leadership

AI tools

Problem solving

Excel modeling

Tools

Microsoft CoPilot

Claude

Job description

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) Australia, NZ and Pacific Islands is seeking a Client Consulting Manager based in Sydney for a 12-month maternity leave contract. You will lead engagements, develop project plans, and drive end-to-end delivery with multi-disciplinary teams across payments and strategy.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in consulting or corporate strategy, experience in payments, strong analytics and leadership skills, and proficiency with AI tools.