Sr. Manager – Global Corporate Strategy

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The Global Corporate Strategy team sets Visa's corporate and strategy agendas for the company and leads the multi-year planning process. Specifically this person will:

• Lead or support major project workstreams related to Visa Inc.'s corporate strategy, business development, or corporate initiatives
• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues.
• Build out unique, creative and impactful solutions by integrating insights across Visa's many expert functional resources and supporting collaborative solution development
• Develop rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations. Ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations
• Work closely with cross-functional and regional management teams on strategic projects, bringing timely and useful insight and analytical support
• Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise and impactful way.

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:
• 9 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
• Typically requires 5+ years total experience in management consulting, corporate strategy,
investment banking or equivalent
• Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments industry not required, but a plus
• Ability to independently lead and manage projects with multiple workstreams, with proven
leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems
• Ability to structure and manage complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple
stakeholders at both senior and junior levels
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor,
attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling
• Experience working with economic theories, strategic and prioritization frameworks, scenarios
analysis, and competitive assessments. Knowledge of payment industry revenue drivers a plus.
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior stakeholders
and external business partners
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a 'peer' with
functional and regional leaders within Visa
• Commitment to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the corporate
strategy function
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills,
including strong oral and writing capabilities.

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