Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is a global team of consultants data scientists and subject matter experts that drives tangible impactful and financial results for Visas clients including both financial institutions and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting payments data analytics marketing operational and macroeconomics VCA drives high impact projects and tangible financial results. VCA engages clients throughout Europe and is organized in teams in South Europe UK & Ireland Nordics & Baltics Central Eastern Europe Central Europe and France Belgium & Luxemburg.
Whats it all about
Visa Consulting & Analytics drives measurable tangible business impact for Visas most important clients.
As a Senior Consulting Manager Digital Payments Strategy you will be a trusted strategic advisor to large multinational merchants and payment players headquartered or operating in Central Europe. Your clients will include globally recognized brands and digital leaders (e.g. large ecommerce platforms global marketplaces travel and mobility players).
Reporting to the Director Visa Consulting & Analytics you will lead complex strategy engagements in the payment acceptance and merchant domainworking directly with senior client stakeholders who are themselves experts in payments.
This role is designed for professionals who already bring deep payments industry expertise and want to apply it in a highimpact clientfacing strategic role influencing decisionmaking at board and Clevel.
What we expect of you day to day:
- Act as a senior strategic advisor to global and regional merchants on payment acceptance checkout strategy PSP/acquirer setup and payment innovation
- Lead end to end delivery of multiple high value consulting engagements simultaneously from scoping to executive level recommendation
- Translate complex payment ecosystems data and trends into clear actionable strategic recommendations
- Partner closely with senior client experts (payments treasury product risk technology) as a peer and thought leader
- Design and oversee:
- Advanced data analysis and insight generation
- Market and competitive benchmarking (PSPs schemes alternative payment methods)
- Commercial and operational impact assessments
- Own the development and presentation of executive ready reports and board level materials
- Lead and moderate senior client workshops and steering committee discussions
- Serve as the primary day to day client contact ensuring trust quality and delivery excellence
- Actively contribute to project origination and sales supporting proposal development and client pitching
- Collaborate closely with Visas regional leadership sales and product teams across Central Europe
- Identify scalable consulting solutions and contribute to VCA knowledge IP and best practice development
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 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site) with a general guidepost of being in the office 60% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications :
Essential specific skill set and experience required:
- Previous strategy & management consulting experience (preferably client-facing and project manager experience)
- Deep hands-on expertise in the payments industry particularly in one or more of the following:
- Acquiring & merchant services
- PSPs & payment gateways
- Ecommerce & digital payments
- Large merchant payment setups
- Strong strategic thinking structuring and storytelling skills
- High level of commercial acumen and valuedriven mindset
- Excellent analytical capabilities; ability to turn complex data into strategic insight
- Advanced PowerPoint and MS Office skills; Excel and data manipulation skills required
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Highly selfdriven structured and comfortable operating with autonomy
- Fluent in written and spoken German and English
- Knowledge of Visa Products services and transaction flows (considered a plus)
- Understanding of transactional data Visa data and alternative data sources (considered a plus)
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is a global team of consultants data scientists and subject matter experts that drives tangible impactful and financial results for Visas clients including both financial institutions and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting payments data analy...
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is a global team of consultants data scientists and subject matter experts that drives tangible impactful and financial results for Visas clients including both financial institutions and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting payments data analytics marketing operational and macroeconomics VCA drives high impact projects and tangible financial results. VCA engages clients throughout Europe and is organized in teams in South Europe UK & Ireland Nordics & Baltics Central Eastern Europe Central Europe and France Belgium & Luxemburg.
Whats it all about
Visa Consulting & Analytics drives measurable tangible business impact for Visas most important clients.
As a Senior Consulting Manager Digital Payments Strategy you will be a trusted strategic advisor to large multinational merchants and payment players headquartered or operating in Central Europe. Your clients will include globally recognized brands and digital leaders (e.g. large ecommerce platforms global marketplaces travel and mobility players).
Reporting to the Director Visa Consulting & Analytics you will lead complex strategy engagements in the payment acceptance and merchant domainworking directly with senior client stakeholders who are themselves experts in payments.
This role is designed for professionals who already bring deep payments industry expertise and want to apply it in a highimpact clientfacing strategic role influencing decisionmaking at board and Clevel.
What we expect of you day to day:
- Act as a senior strategic advisor to global and regional merchants on payment acceptance checkout strategy PSP/acquirer setup and payment innovation
- Lead end to end delivery of multiple high value consulting engagements simultaneously from scoping to executive level recommendation
- Translate complex payment ecosystems data and trends into clear actionable strategic recommendations
- Partner closely with senior client experts (payments treasury product risk technology) as a peer and thought leader
- Design and oversee:
- Advanced data analysis and insight generation
- Market and competitive benchmarking (PSPs schemes alternative payment methods)
- Commercial and operational impact assessments
- Own the development and presentation of executive ready reports and board level materials
- Lead and moderate senior client workshops and steering committee discussions
- Serve as the primary day to day client contact ensuring trust quality and delivery excellence
- Actively contribute to project origination and sales supporting proposal development and client pitching
- Collaborate closely with Visas regional leadership sales and product teams across Central Europe
- Identify scalable consulting solutions and contribute to VCA knowledge IP and best practice development
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 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site) with a general guidepost of being in the office 60% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications :
Essential specific skill set and experience required:
- Previous strategy & management consulting experience (preferably client-facing and project manager experience)
- Deep hands-on expertise in the payments industry particularly in one or more of the following:
- Acquiring & merchant services
- PSPs & payment gateways
- Ecommerce & digital payments
- Large merchant payment setups
- Strong strategic thinking structuring and storytelling skills
- High level of commercial acumen and valuedriven mindset
- Excellent analytical capabilities; ability to turn complex data into strategic insight
- Advanced PowerPoint and MS Office skills; Excel and data manipulation skills required
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Highly selfdriven structured and comfortable operating with autonomy
- Fluent in written and spoken German and English
- Knowledge of Visa Products services and transaction flows (considered a plus)
- Understanding of transactional data Visa data and alternative data sources (considered a plus)
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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