Manager, VCA

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. 

 Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, digital marketing and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. 

Job Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. VCA's core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments.
CEMEA Consulting Practice applies deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities, drive growth and improve profitability. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to deliver solutions that address unique challenges in areas such as marketing, strategic growth, profitability, digital payments and risk.

Position Summary

The Visa Consulting & Analytics Manager will undertake consulting engagements for Visa clients in Azerbaijan, enabling digital growth and improved profitability in clients’ credit and debit payment card business.

Potential projects could include portfolio management diagnostics, assessments of digital product, channels and key digital enablement initiatives, development of industry landscape evaluations and best practices, and optimizing client customer experience and supporting processes.

Key Responsibilities: 

· Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to closing engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients for future engagements.

· Participate with Visa internal teams in regular strategic & planning discussions.

· Address client inquiries and serve as the main contact point for clients and internal questions.

· Manage multiple priorities across various workstreams and projects simultaneously.

· Transform problem statements into proposals with guidance from leadership.

· Participate in developing frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.

· Build solutions and measurable insights that will help clients to grow their portfolios and drive customer engagement in their core business.

· Collaborate cross-functionally (e.g., marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that use the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources.

· Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic mentorship for client priorities.

· Perform client-specific analysis on portfolio data including proprietary information, such as customer demographics, activity, spend levels, behavioral scores, financial information, among others.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience dealing with business problems in relevant fields such as analytics, business consulting, or other data-driven functions
• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research, Computer Science, Economics, etc.
• Post graduate degree preferred
• Prior experience in consulting / advisory services (Top 3/Big 4/Boutiques) is a very strong advantage
• Excellent communication, storytelling and presentation skills
• Exceptional structuring analytical and modeling skills, with the ability to process and summarize large amounts of data into key strategic insights.
• Analytics experience in credit risk modelling is preferred but not required
• Strong team player with a willingness to collaborate across levels and functional experts both internal to Visa and with the client
• Experienced project management skills, both from an individual perspective but also with respect to managing team and client expectations and deliverables.
• Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to adapt
• A background in payments, financial institutions or consumer lending a plus
• An affinity for payments technology and its future
• Willingness to travel domestic and international assignments

Additional Information

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 local law.

Client-provided location(s): Baku, Azerbaijan

Job ID: 48e83dbb-03b3-46fe-90bd-b0ccd2620f2e

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-17T07:59:30