Consulting Manager, Central America and Caribbean – Payments Consulting

Job Description

Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA), Core Consulting | Visa

The Tone:
This is a hybrid role at Visa, located in San Jose. Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. This role is crucial for driving tangible and impactful results for clients by solving strategic problems through expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments, and economics. Your contributions will help uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, San Jose, San Jose

• Team: Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA), Core Consulting
• Mission: Expand Visa’s acceptance footprint and boost client business in the Central American and Caribbean region by leading high-impact consulting projects.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead: Develop and implement Issuing, Commercial Solutions, and Government Solutions consulting projects for accounts in CARCAM markets and for Regional Multinational Clients.
• Drive: Execute the VCA strategy across Central America & the Caribbean, proactively capitalizing on regional opportunities.
• Coordinate: Ensure collaboration with internal teams for the execution of specific acceptance activities stemming from VCA consulting recommendations.
• Cultivate: Manage a pipeline of client work, from identifying potential opportunities to scoping the associated engagements.
• Deploy: Implement frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively address impactful client opportunities and challenges.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Manager-level professional with 5 or more years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree, or 8-10 years with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA), or 6+ years with a PhD, ideally in a quantitative field such as engineering, economics, or finance.
• Experience: 5+ years working in the payments industry, preferably managing cards portfolios or relevant payments management experience at consulting firms, with demonstrated expertise in strategy and management consulting project delivery.
• Skills: Strong project and sales management, executive presence with excellent written and verbal communication, client relationship management, analytical management, and knowledge of payment schemes including products and processes.
• Bonus: Fluent in both English and Spanish, with a self-motivated and results-oriented approach to handling numerous concurrent projects.