Sr. Manager - Risk Practice, Credit Risk

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

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network 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 US Consulting Practice within Visa Consulting & Analytics provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s largest 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 VC&A 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.

The Risk Practice advises Visa clients and ecosystem partners on core risk management areas for card portfolio management, including originations strategies, underwriting, fraud, authorizations, disputes, credit line management, and collections. The selected candidate will primarily serve as a project leader and an advisor to clients on Credit Risk related engagements (e.g., Underwriting, Credit Policy Assessment, Collections, and more). There will also be opportunities to develop knowledge and client-facing skills in the areas of Identity Risk, Generative AI, and other risk practice initiatives.

Specific Responsibilities Include

• Proactively engage with Visa internal teams in regular strategic & planning discussions 
• Support Directors in leading consulting initiatives and contributes to closing engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients
• Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges 

• Help to build solutions and measurable insights that will help clients to grow their portfolios and customer engagement in their core business 
• Collaborate cross-functionally (e.g., marketing, sales, risk, legal) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that use the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources. Also partner with segment teams to drive actionable client results.
• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic mentorship for client priorities across the verticals and segments 
• Ability to reliably manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to identify meanings insights and recommendations for clients 
• Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, standard methodology documents and consulting approach that can be applied across VCA practice 

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
•8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications
•9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
•Prior experience at large US Financial Institution, Credit Card Issuer, or management consulting firm
•Working knowledge of data visualization tools, including Tableau
•Experience using financial indicators to measure business performance with a significant focus on impacting return on investment
•Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical complexity
•Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
•Knowledge and understanding of ba