Consulting Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
**What we expect of you, day to day.**
- Support the sales/delivery of consulting projects, ensuring the project achieves the required outcomes to a defined deadline.
- Develops and maintains the project plan, content scope and final deliverables for larger projects namely:

- Prepare presentations and reports
- Conduct data analysis
- Review relevant reports and information sources
- Conduct benchmarking from different internal/external sources and desktop research
- Effectively communicate and liaise project findings with internal and external stakeholders at various levels of seniority and function
- Supports Managing Consultant to source new work. Liaises with other parts of the Visa Europe business where appropriate for projects scoping and completion (e.g. the RM, BD and sales team).
- Serves as a day-to-day client contact, regularly liaising with clients throughout the project lifecycle.
- Identifies process improvements including repeatable and scalable solutions and shares knowledge and expertise with team members as required.
- Delivers reports and presentations communicating recommended approaches, often with the support of Consultants and Analysts in preparing these deliverables.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

**Qualifications**:
For this role the key skills required are:

- BS/BA is required (preferably economics, finance or business), or hold equivalent professional experience
- 6 to 10 years of consulting experience in banking and payments (preferably client-facing experience)
- Knowledge of the Italian Payments ecosystem
- Excellent Business Analysis Skills (research and analyse market and client information to tell a story)
- Commercial Acumen - being able to spot an opportunity and drive value for Visa and the Client
- Self-starter and attention to detail
- Knowledge of the payments business - in particular acquiring - and/or financial services (financial technology will be a plus)
- Ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders at various levels within the business
- Excellent (creative) PowerPoint skills
- Excellent report writing skills (ability to tell a simple ‘story’ involving complex issues)
- Excellent understanding of transactional data and data sources
- Advanced data skills (ability to use Excel, databases and data manipulation
- Fluent in written and spoken English and Italian

Additional Information

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.