Senior Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) Core Consulting

Visa; Região Geográfica Intermediária de São Paulo; Hybrid; BRL 260,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments technology firm is seeking a Senior Manager to enhance project development for clients in Brazil. This role requires over 6 years' experience and proficiency in English and Portuguese. Responsibilities include engaging in strategic discussions, developing impactful solutions, and improving client performance through insights. The position is hybrid, requiring interaction with multiple teams within the organization. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical abilities and a technology-oriented mindset.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of work experience and a bachelor degree.
• Relevant experience at management consulting firm or financial institutions.
• Strong analytical skills with focus on ROI.
• Experience working with financial indicators to measure business performance (ROI).
• Strong analytical skills with rigorous problem solving.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and stay results-driven.
• Knowledge of banking operations or payment schemes is a plus.
• Excellent communication, storytelling and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop high impact projects for Visa clients in Brazil.
• Engage with teams in strategic discussions and manage work pipelines.
• Produce insights and recommendations to improve client performance.
• Build scalable tools and insights to grow client portfolios and cardholder engagement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to leverage Visa resources and drive client priorities.
• Produce analyses and strategic guidance to improve client performance and ROI.

Skills

Work experience

Bilingual (English and Portuguese)

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Technology mindset

Education

Bachelor degree

MBA

Job description

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.

Team Description

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.

Job Description

The VCA team is looking for a Senior Manager to join our consulting practice and play a role in developing high impact projects for Visa clients in Brazil. This person will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both the preferred brand and unique business partner.

Potential engagements could include product development, program launch, customer acquisition, customer and commercial life cycle optimization, retention enhancement, benchmark analysis, profitability enhancement.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Proactively engage with Visa teams in regular strategic and planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with Merchants, Issuers and Digital Banks.
• Leads consulting initiatives and contributes to closing engagement by identifying potential opportunities.
• Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Build solutions and actionable insights that will help clients to grow their portfolios and cardholder engagement with the issuer.
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., sales, solutions, client service, marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa resources.
• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the verticals and segments.
• Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for the clients.
• Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approach that can be applied across VCA practice.

Incumbents applying for the role should be self-motivated, highly energized, detail-oriented individuals who will deliver strategic thought leadership, problem diagnostics and high impact solutions to clients support the growth and performance. Candidates must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with internal and external clients and across the Visa organization. This is an individual contributor role, reporting into a VCA Brazilian Director.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of work experience with a bachelor degree and MBA will be a competitive differentiation
• Bi-lingual (English and Portuguese)
• Relevant experience at large management consulting firm or at financial institutions
• Experience working with financial indicators to measure business performance. Significant focus on impacting ROI
• Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and or payment schemes, including products and services, business systems and processes, marketing initiatives and card acquiring experience
• Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills
• Technology mindset, curious, up to date with digital trends and applications

Additional Information

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.