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About the Role

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful, and financial results for Visa's clients. The VCA team within Japan provides consulting services and solutions to address unique client challenges in strategic growth, profitability, risk management, and digital strategy. Dedicated Team members enhance partnerships with key clients by supporting strategic planning and implementation of their most strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

Drive initiative development to support client’s commercial (B2B) and acquiring business growth and innovation using Visa solutions and strategic consulting methodologies.
Set key questions, formulate hypotheses, conduct deep quantitative analyses, and synthesize strategic recommendations.
Support new commercial business strategy development and execution.
Design, develop, and enable new acquiring solutions, businesses, or customer journeys.
Sell-in Visa solutions and manage system PMO from requirements definition to implementation support.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in both English and Japanese.
Build and manage strong relationships with client executives, general managers, and key stakeholders.
Ensure high-quality project delivery by leveraging consulting and team management skills.
Orchestrate cross-functional teams of diverse subject matter experts.
Coach, mentor, and develop team members, supporting their professional growth.
Maintain high standards for project deliverables.
Continuously build knowledge, uncover new insights, and produce thought leadership materials.
Oversee project setup and administrative processes, including contracting, internal reporting, and compliance procedures.

Requirements

Breadth of professional experience and strong curiosity about the payments industry.
Client-focused with the ability to manage projects end-to-end.
Fluent Japanese and business-level proficiency in English.
10+ years of high-performance experience in strategy consulting, project management, or payment business.
Demonstrated experience managing and developing teams, including performance management and coaching.
Proven track record managing complex, cross-functional, and cross-regional projects.
Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated intellectual rigor.
Strong team orientation with a collaborative, diplomatic, and adaptable style.
Effective in a matrixed organization.
Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring the highest quality and rigor in reports and data analysis.
Excellent presentation skills with strong oral and written communication abilities.
Self-motivated and results-driven, adept at managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
Flexible mindset with resilience, able to adjust plans and scope while effectively managing client expectations.
Strong commercial acumen, with experience developing business cases and demonstrating proven ROI.
Passion for analytics and its power to inform strategy and tactics.
Proven ability to generate actionable insights from data.
Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire team members toward high performance.
Experience in the payments, banking, or technology sectors is preferred.
Deep understanding of the commercial payment and/or acquiring business is preferred.
Familiarity with statistical analysis, modeling, and scoring schemes is preferred.

Skills

Strategy consulting
Data analytics
Brand management
Marketing
Operations
Macroeconomics
Project management
Team management
Quantitative analysis
Strategic recommendations
Business strategy development
Solution design
Business requirements definition
Implementation support
Client relationship management
Cross-functional team orchestration
Data science
Solution specialization
Client service
Coaching
Mentoring
Thought leadership
Analytical skills
Problem-solving skills
Communication skills
Presentation skills
Commercial acumen
Business case development
Return on Investment (ROI) demonstration
Statistical analysis
Modeling
Scoring schemes

Location

Japan

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Manager
10+ years

About the Company

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.
Visa is 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.
Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
VCA’s services allow our clients to boost their business performance by leveraging Visa’s expansive solution, thought leadership, and market insights and data.
This in turn drives Visa’s business, creating a win-win relationship where both client and Visa’s incentives are aligned to grow the business.
This dynamic combined with the long-term relationship we have with clients enables a deeper level of engagement and impact compared to traditional consulting firms.
VCA projects also help drive Visa Japan’s strategic initiatives and accelerate Japan’s transformation to a cashless society.
If you thrive on rapid growth and enjoy working alongside positive, driven teammates, you’ll feel right at home here.
Help us to uplift everyone, everywhere.
Whether you’re starting your career, pushing your capabilities or are a seasoned professional, learn how we can partner to reimagine the world.
Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match.
At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Our evolving technology keeps us at the heart of the digital economy, connecting people to 80+ million businesses worldwide.
Backed by a resilient, proven model, our expanding network fuels growth—for Visa and for your career.
Your journey starts here — discover how we hire.
Ready to take the next step?
Learn more about life at Visa, explore our hiring process and get first-hand insights by hearing directly from our recruiters about what to expect.
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Equal Opportunity

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.