Visa
Senior Director - Super Regionals VCA
Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

VCA team is looking for an individual to join our consulting practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the North America region. The potential candidate will be responsible for delivering and implementing projects and solutions with Super Regional banks. This person will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both, the preferred brand and unique business partner.

Potential engagements could include product development, program launch, card acquisition, life cycle optimization, benchmark analysis, profitability enhancement, etc.

Specific responsibilities include:

Proactively engage Visa leaders in regular strategic & planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with Super Regionals. Lead consulting initiatives and contributes to closing engagement by identifying potential opportunities with Super Regionals. Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges. Build solutions and actionable insights that will help clients to grow their business, monetize their assets and achieve their core business goals. Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., sales, marketing, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources. Produce insights, analyses and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the product categories and segments. Ability to think critically about, effectively manipulate, and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings, insights and recommendations for clients (including effective collaboration with data science teams) helping them achieve strategic objectives. Collaborate effectively with internal data science teams. Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approaches that can be applied across VCA practice. 

Incumbents applying for the role should be self-motivated, highly energized, detail-oriented and data-driven individuals who will deliver strategic thought leadership, problem diagnostics and high impact solutions to clients support the growth and performance. Candidates must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with internal and external clients and across the Visa organization.

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

Basic Qualifications

 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience 10 or more years of relevant experience in large processors, payment schemes and large management consulting firm Experience working with financial indicators to measure business performance. Significant focus on impacting ROI Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor (previous experience handling data analysis via Microsoft Excel, Tableau/Power BI, and/or direct querying big data via SQL, python, etc. are a plus) Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently Knowledge and understanding of banking operations, processor business and/ or payment schemes, including products & services, business systems and processes, marketing initiatives and card acquiring experience Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills Team player Ability to travel up to 25% Technology mindset, curious, up-to-date with digital trends and applications

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

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

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 173,400.00 to 301,150.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
Ashburn, VA