Company Description

This job can also be located in Wilmington Delaware or San Francisco, CA.

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visaetwork clients, including both financial services and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, Visa Consulting and Analytics solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

The North American Consulting Practice provides consulting and solution services for Visaargest issuers in the United States. We apply deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities, drive growth and improve profitability. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to deliver solutions that address unique challenges in areas such as improving profitability, strategic growth, customer experience, digital payments and managing risk. Job Description

The Vice President and Risk Practice Lead will play a key leadership role on a team of experienced professionals developing and delivering high impact projects for Visaargest partners. Consulting engagements will include fraud strategy and operations, underwriting, risk management, and collections. Practice leadership includes building deeper domain expertise across the North American and global VCA teams, standardizing and scaling consulting engagements, and representing VCA's risk capabilities in key client sales discussions.

We are looking for motivated, analytic individuals with a track record of building strong consultative team. The incumbent must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with clients and across the Visa organization.

Specific responsibilities include:

Developing trusted advisor relationships with client senior executives through impactful consulting engagements

Managing simultaneous client consulting engagement teams including initial client sales, problem disaggregation and planning, and quality assurance of final deliverable

Proactively engage with clients and Visa client leadership in regular strategic & planning discussions; cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with clients

Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations through the analysis of client data that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.

Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, analytics, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visaesources

Produce insights and analyses to improve client performance, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the payment P&L

As a risk expert, provide knowledge sharing, coaching and training across teams and/or regions Qualifications

We are looking for individuals with deep payment and consulting expertise to provide analysis and strategic thinking to shape the services we deliver to clients, lead consulting engagements and develop actionable and scalable insights and solutions.

Key Competencies:

Substantial problem solving ability with strategic focus on impacting client ROI

Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.

Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently

Executive Presence including excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.

Demonstrated leadership, managerial and collaboration capabilities, particularly with those who are not direct reports as may be found in a matrixed organization

Holds self and others accountable for measurable high quality, timely and effective results. Displays a strong commitment to organizational success

Ability to identify key strategic issues and to generate and deliver creative and innovative solutions to problems and opportunities.

Deep expertise in fraud and credit risk

Understanding of critical factors in driving profitability and growth for Visa's issuer, acquirer and merchant clients

Ability to influence and negotiate with senior executives

Specific requirements:

Minimum of 15+ years of progressively more responsible business experience in management consulting and/or payment businesses

BA/BS required. MBA preferred.

Ideal candidate will have payments and consulting experience.

Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills.

Willingness to travel 25%+ domestically

Additional Information

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.