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About the Role

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa's clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants. The VCA team within Japan provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients in Japan, that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management and digital strategy. The Account dedicated team plays a key role to enhance the partnership with one of Visa Japan’s largest clients and focuses on developing, implementing, and improving clients’ business by collaborating with them closely. We are looking for a Senior Consulting Manager to deliver account dedicated engagements for our clients in Japan, enabling portfolio growth and improved profitability across their payment businesses, especially in B2B portfolio.

Responsibilities

Deliver account dedicated engagements for clients in Japan, enabling portfolio growth and improved profitability across their payment businesses, especially in B2B portfolio.
Manage end-to-end client engagements, including client interaction, project input gathering, data analysis, and recommendation development.
Develop compelling project reports and collaborate with clients on recommendation execution.
Draft engagement designs, clarifying objectives, scope, deliverables, approach, dependencies, roles, and responsibilities.
Oversee project setup, including contracting documentation, stakeholder engagement, workplans, and client data requirements.
Analyze client data to benchmark performance against industry averages and identify improvement opportunities.
Collaborate with data science teams to leverage advanced data analytics capabilities.
Identify solutions and recommendations that address client objectives and result in performance improvement.
Design and deliver compelling presentations to illustrate findings and recommendations.
Support the implementation of VCA recommendations or client initiatives.
Identify and surface opportunities for client projects.
Create, develop, and maintain analytical models and methodologies.
Continuously build knowledge, surface new insights, and produce thought leadership pieces.

Requirements

Full professional level in Japanese and business level English proficiency.
At least 10 years or more of experience and a track record of high performance in strategy consulting or corporate strategy.
Self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently.
Strong capability in building and maintaining client relationships.
Strong team player, collaborative, diplomatic, and agile.
Able to work across cultures, upholds and promotes mutual respect in the workplace.
Results-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
Ability to independently identify key issues, prioritize, and develop hypotheses.
Good business acumen with strong ability to solve business problems through data-driven quantitative methodologies.
Proven skills in translating analytics output to actionable recommendations.
Experience in presenting ideas and analysis to stakeholders with the ability to tailor data-driven results to various audience levels.
Detail-oriented, ensuring the highest level of quality and rigor in deliverables, reports, and data analysis.
Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
Demonstrated ability to innovate solutions to solve business problems.
Passion for Visa and client business, technology innovation, with high energy and intelligence.
Exhibit intellectual curiosity and strive to continually learn.
Experience in payments, the retail banking industry, or technology is helpful.
A solid understanding of the end-to-end landscape of B2B payments in financial institutions and/or their ecosystem, or the ability to quickly build this knowledge.
PMP certification or experience in technical project management is helpful.

Skills

Strategy consulting
Data analytics
Brand management
Marketing
Operations
Macroeconomics
Client relationship management
Project management
Problem-solving
Analytical modeling
Quantitative methodologies
Storytelling
Presentation skills
B2B payments
Technical project management

Location

Japan

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
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.
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.
Visa's services allow our clients to boost their business performance by leveraging Visa’s expansive 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.
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 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.