Consulting Senior 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's it 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.

As a Visa Consulting & Analytics Senior Manager you will undertake consulting engagements for Visa clients in Czechia. You will be based in Prague. You will:

• Lead sales and participate in Visa Consulting & Analytics projects delivery among clients in Czechia
• Drive meaningful business relationships between Visa and its key clients
• Be an experienced strategy consultant able to help our clients grow their business, especially in the payments and digital domains

Day to day:

• Sell consulting projects to Visa clients (banks, payment services providers, merchants, fintechs)
• Full responsibility for delivering revenue and margin targets across the subcluster
• Lead and deliver projects through either self, other internal or external staff as appropriate
• Manage project costs to agreed budgets and timeframes and ensure high standard of delivery
• Understand our clients’ business objectives, identify opportunities and improvements to grow the business and digital banking of our clients
• Develop and propose appropriate concepts and digital business solutions to clients
• Leverage Visa’s innovation, product and data capabilities to further grow our clients’ business by working together with the sales, product and VAS teams

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

Qualifications

What we're after: In depth experience in management consulting is a must. You should be experienced Manager or fresh Senior Manager. Extensive knowledge of Czech banking and payments sector Excellent client relationship management skills (including senior executive level), preferably in the financial services industry Experience in structuring project proposal based on client’s needs and problem statement, defining clear project approach and deliverables. Ability to deliver high-quality projects leading small team of consultants, data analysts and external suppliers (e.g. market research), leveraging and further developing own subject matter expertise in banking and payments industry. Experience in conceptualizing new products and business models in a digital and technology-driven environments Excellent spoken and written command of both Czech/Slovak and English language Excellent presentation and communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to comprehend and convey complex business information Advanced analytical skills Business thinking and creativity High proficiency in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel A proven ability to thrive in high pressure situations and a fast paced and matrixed environment Willingness to travel and work onsite with clients if needed Experience in worldwide management consulting firms (Big4) is an advantage Experience in using agile methods (i.e. Design Thinking, Lean-Start-up, Scrum) is an advantage

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.