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About the Role

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa's clients. The VCA team in Japan provides consulting and advisory services to leading financial institutions and payments industry participants, helping clients address strategic priorities across growth, business transformation, customer engagement, digital innovation, profitability improvement, and new business development. As a Director, Business Consulting, you will lead consulting engagements for Visa's clients in Japan, serving as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, leading high-impact engagements, identifying new business opportunities, and managing project delivery teams to achieve measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead consulting engagements from opportunity identification and proposal development through project delivery and executive presentation.
Develop trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders and support strategic decision-making.
Identify client needs and shape consulting opportunities that drive measurable business impact.
Structure and solve complex business challenges through data-driven analysis and strategic problem solving.
Lead initiatives across business strategy, growth, transformation, innovation, customer experience, and digital initiatives.
Manage cross-functional and cross-regional project teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Drive project planning, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and delivery excellence.
Collaborate with Visa product, sales, data science, and regional teams to deliver integrated client solutions.
Coach and develop team members while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
Contribute to business development, thought leadership, consulting methodologies, and practice growth.

Requirements

Fluent Japanese and business-level English proficiency.
12+ years of experience in strategy consulting, management consulting, corporate strategy, business planning, business transformation, or related fields.
Proven track record of leading complex client engagements and managing senior stakeholder relationships.
Experience managing cross-functional and cross-regional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
Strong business development mindset with experience identifying, shaping, and delivering consulting opportunities.
Superior analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving capabilities.
Strong commercial acumen and experience developing business cases and evaluating growth opportunities.
Excellent communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills.
Self-motivated and results-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Strong leadership skills with experience coaching and developing high-performing teams.
Passion for leveraging data, analytics, and emerging technologies to drive business outcomes.
Experience in payments, banking, fintech, financial services, technology, or digital commerce.
Experience leading business transformation, digital transformation, or innovation initiatives.
Experience in product strategy, customer experience design, go-to-market strategy, or PMO engagements.
Familiarity with analytics, AI, and data-driven business models.
Experience working in global and highly matrixed organizations.

Skills

Strategy consulting
Data analytics
Product innovation
Marketing
Operations
Economics
Strategic thinking
Client leadership
Business development
Project delivery
Business strategy
Growth
Transformation
Customer engagement
Digital innovation
Profitability improvement
New business development
Analytical skills
Problem-solving
Commercial acumen
Business case development
Communication skills
Storytelling
Executive presentation skills
Leadership skills
Team coaching and development
Data leveraging
Analytics leveraging
Emerging technologies leveraging
Payments industry
Banking industry
Fintech industry
Financial services industry
Technology industry
Digital commerce industry
Business transformation
Digital transformation
Innovation initiatives
Product strategy
Customer experience design
Go-to-market strategy
PMO engagements
AI
Data-driven business models

Location

Japan

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director
12+ 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.
Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Through Visa Consulting & Analytics, we help clients accelerate growth, improve business performance, and navigate an evolving payments landscape.
By combining Visa's market insights, analytics capabilities, and global expertise, we create measurable value for our clients and strengthen long-term partnerships.
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.