Vca Manager

Company Description

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

**You're** an Individual. **We're** the team for you. **Together**, let's transform the way the world pays.

If you think you could support Visa as a **VCA Manager - Digital Banking & Payments Strategy in Austria** we want to hear from you

**Job Description**:
**What's it all about?**

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa clients. Drawing on our expertise in strategy & management consulting, data science & analytics, marketing, operations and technology, VCA solves strategic problems and sees opportunities for Visa’s issuers, acquirers and merchants.

As a Manager, you will work within the Central European Consulting team, leading and delivering projects for our clients in Austria. You will work towards the team’s goals and own the delivery of detailed data gathering, analysis, insight generation as well as the formulation of strategic and practical recommendations to enable the successful delivery of client projects.

Furthermore, you are also responsible for delivering internal projects, analysis and reports.

**What we expect of you, day to day.**
- Manages and/or supports the sales/delivery of consulting projects
- Develops and maintains the project plan, content scope and final deliverables for 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
- Delivers reports and presentations communicating recommended approaches, often with the support of a project team in preparing these deliverables.
- Effectively communicates and liaises project findings with internal and external clients at various levels of seniority and function
- Serves as a day-to-day client contact, collaborating closely with clients throughout the project lifecycle
- Supports the Visa Central Europe Consulting team to source new work and may occasionally be involved in independently selling new projects with a focus on Austria. Liaises with other parts of the Visa Europe business, where appropriate, for projects scoping and completion (e.g. the Regional Managing Directors, Business Development and Austrian sales team incl. Country Manager)
- Identifies process improvements including repeatable and scalable solutions and shares knowledge and expertise with team members as required

**Qualifications**:
**What we’re after**
- BSc/BA is required (preferably Economics, Finance or Business), MSc/MA preferred
- 2 - 4 years previous strategy & management consulting experience (preferably client-facing experience)
- Knowledge of the payments business and/or financial services (Retail Banking will be a plus) incl. innovation driving the digital banking and retail industries
- Strong Problem-Solving & Storylining Skills (research and analyse market and client information to tell a story)
- Commercial Savviness - being able to spot an opportunity and drive value for Visa and the Client
- Self-starter and attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate closely with multiple internal and external clients at various levels within the business
- Excellent PowerPoint skills
- Sophisticated data analysis skills (ability to use Excel, databases and data manipulation including SQL) preferred
- Willingness to travel an estimated 10 - 20% of time within the Central Europe Region and European territories upon short notice
- Fluent in written and spoken German and English
- Knowledge of Visa Products, services and transaction flows (considered a plus)
- Excellent understanding of transactional data, Visa data and alternative data sources (considered a plus)

**Think you have what it takes?**

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you - we’d love to hear from you

Additional Information

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

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 c