Senior Payments Consultant, Visa Consulting & Analytics

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.</strong></p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>What's it all about?</strong></p><p>Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and 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, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.</p><p>Visa Managed Services (VMS) is an augmentation of Visa’s consultancy offering, supporting the execution and implementation of recommendations to help scale competitive advantage and operate to succeed in the digital age.</p><p>We are looking for a <strong>VMS Payments Consultant </strong>with a strong background in payments or financial services to form an integral part of our VMS team, leading multiple payments work streams within key Visa clients in France, Belgium and Luxembourg (FBL). We are passionate about providing an outstanding client experience, delivering Visa products and service offerings that improve efficiency and drive value for everyone! Working with some of the best consultants in the banking and payment industry, this is a superb opportunity for an upbeat, motivated and hard-working individual to drive VMS and it's product delivery offering to the next level, and we are really excited to see how you could support us!</p><p><strong>What we expect of you, day to day</strong></p><p>Working closely with both client and Visa personnel, the VMS Payments Consultant will have accountability for ensuring the delivered project outcomes are aligned against both the clients and Visa’s objectives across all aspects of delivery. This will include:</p><ul><li>Collaborate with key individuals across both Visa and the client. Product, marketing, compliance, legal, and other business SMES are your key partners, you will influence to ensure alignment and support towards the product vision</li><li>Lead workstreams and/or support the delivery of client engagements in the cards and payments space, ensuring the project achieves the required outcomes. This may involve leading a small team of Client resources, depending on the size of the assignment.</li><li>Work with key business collaborators to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, information and systems to achieve final technology/business solution</li><li>Support Business and new product development to ensure continued market leadership, including being a great partner with IT in terms of preparing and owning Business Requirements for new products</li><li>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 verticals and segments</li><li>Actively participate and support the Client in ad hoc and business as usual activities under the guidance and direction of the Programme Lead</li><li>Serve as a day-to-day Client contact, collaborating closely with clients throughout the assignment lifecycle.</li><li>Deliver reports and presentations communicating recommended approaches</li><li>Liaises with various Visa team members and parties where appropriate to boost collaboration and experience sharing</li></ul><p>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.</p><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>What we’re after…</strong></p><ul><li>Extensive consulting and/or experience of the payments business and/or cards business</li><li>Implementation experience across any number of Visa related areas, including the implementation of Visa and 3rd party digital products and APIs, portfolio management, campaign management, ownership and management of payment and card business products and segm