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About the Role

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions across more than 200 countries and territories. This role leads consulting engagements for clients in Japan, supporting strategy and new business development in the Commercial Money Movement Solutions (CMS) business. The Director will manage initiatives, coordinate between teams, and oversee project delivery from scoping to completion.

Responsibilities

Drive initiative development to support client's CMS business growth using strategic consulting methodologies.
Support new business development and business strategy.
Develop issuing portfolio strategy and marketing strategy.
Design new products, businesses, and customer journeys.
Provide System PMO from business requirements definition to implementation support for cross-regional teams.
Design go-to-market strategy.
Drive high-quality delivery by leveraging strategic consulting and IT consulting PMO skills.
Manage team members and various subject matter experts.
Manage client relationships with executives and key frontline members.
Coach team members, contributing to their growth and career development.
Develop a fact base of client processes, assets, and organization to determine future opportunities.
Create, develop, and maintain analytical models and methodologies.
Build knowledge, surface new insights, and produce thought leadership pieces.
Oversee and manage administrative tasks and project setup, including contracting and compliance.

Requirements

Fluent Japanese and at least business-level English proficiency.
Deep experience and a track record of high performance in strategy, IT consulting, and/or project management (10 years plus).
Deep experience in managing complex cross-functional and cross-regional projects.
Strong understanding of financial services, payments, banking, and/or B2B commercial payments ecosystems.
Experience supporting related business strategy, transformation, or product initiatives.
Superior analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong team orientation with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style.
Excellent detail orientation.
Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and written capabilities.
Self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to progress multiple priorities concurrently.
Flexible mindset to revise plans and scopes while managing clients' expectations.
Strong commercial acumen, with experience in developing business cases with proven ROI.
Experience in and passion for the power of analytics to inform and drive strategy and tactics.
Proven ability to generate insights from data.
Ability to lead and inspire team members to achieve high levels of performance.
Experience in payments, transaction banking, commercial banking, cash management, treasury services, or technology.
Deep understanding of the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions business, B2B payments, or corporate banking business models is highly preferred.
Experience in technical project management.
Experience in customer experience design using human-centered design and design thinking.
An understanding of statistical analysis, modeling, scoring schemes, and related analytical techniques.

Skills

Strategic consulting
Quantitative analysis
Business strategy
Issuing portfolio strategy
Marketing strategy
New product design
Business design
Customer journey design
System PMO
Business requirements definition
Implementation support
Go-to-market strategy
IT consulting
Project management
Data science
Product specialization
Client services
Client relationship management
Team management
Coaching
Analytical modeling
Intellectual property creation
Thought leadership
Contracting
Internal reporting
Compliance procedures
Payments industry
Financial services
Banking
B2B commercial payments
Business transformation
Product initiatives
Problem solving
Presentation skills
Commercial acumen
Business case development
Return on Investment (ROI) analysis
Analytics
Data insights
Transaction banking
Commercial banking
Cash management
Treasury services
Technical project management
Customer experience design
Human-centered design
Design thinking
Statistical analysis
Modeling
Scoring schemes
Analytical techniques

Location

Japan

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

10 years plus

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, 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.
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.
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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.