Consulting Manager - Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) at Visa

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

24 Sep, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

26 Jun, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Consulting, Banking, Financial Services, Payments Strategy, Stakeholder Management, Workshop Facilitation, Analytical Skills, Project Management, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Data Visualisation, Process Improvement, Executive Communication, Research, Solution Evaluation, Client Relationship Building

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Description

About Us 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, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description Team Summary Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa’s consulting division, serving Visa’s clients—including issuers, acquirers, and merchants—and solving strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability. Drawing on expertise across strategy consulting, payments, data, and broader business disciplines, VCA delivers high‑impact, commercially meaningful outcomes for clients across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Consulting Manager to join our New Zealand Consulting team. In this role, you will lead client engagements across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, supporting portfolio growth and improved profitability for clients’ banking and payments businesses. Visa’s consulting engagements span a broad range of topics, including payments strategy, portfolio profitability, customer value propositions, and product and experience design. As a Manager, you will play a key role in shaping problem statements, leading delivery, managing senior stakeholders, and developing high‑performing consulting teams. Key Responsibilities: Lead consulting workstreams end‑to‑end, from problem definition through to delivery of high‑quality, client‑ready outputs. Own client interactions, including planning and facilitating workshops, interviews, and senior stakeholder discussions. Translate complex analysis and insights into clear, actionable recommendations that address client objectives and drive measurable performance improvement. Shape and review compelling deliverables, ensuring strong storylines, clarity, and executive‑level communication. Develop project materials such as workshop content, interview guides, data requirements, and consulting frameworks. Coach and develop junior team members, providing day‑to‑day guidance while fostering supported autonomy and high standards of delivery. Contribute to practice development through IP creation, standardised offerings, and thought leadership. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Qualifications Skills & Experience: Demonstrated experience with 5+ years in consulting, banking, financial services, or payments, with increasing responsibility for leading client work and teams. Strong capability across research, analysis, workshop facilitation, process improvement, solution evaluation, stakeholder engagement, and executive‑level deliverables. Proven analytical skills, including the ability to synthesise insights from multiple sources into clear, high‑quality outputs. Excellent collaboration and relationship‑building skills, working effectively with clients, subject‑matter experts, and geographically distributed teams. Solid program and project management capability, with comfort managing multiple workstreams in parallel. Strong digital productivity skills, including advanced use of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and familiarity with modern collaboration and analysis tools (e.g. SharePoint, Teams, data visualisation or workflow tools) to deliver efficient, high‑quality consulting outputs. 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. If you thrive on rapid growth and enjoy working alongside positive, driven teammates, you’ll feel right at home here. Help us to uplift everyone, everywhere. Whether you’re starting your career, pushing your capabilities or are a seasoned professional, learn how we can partner to reimagine the world. Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match. At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Our evolving technology keeps us at the heart of the digital economy, connecting people to 80+ million businesses worldwide. Backed by a resilient, proven model, our expanding network fuels growth—for Visa and for your career. Your journey starts here — discover how we hire Ready to take the next step? Learn more about life at Visa, explore our hiring process and get first-hand insights by hearing directly from our recruiters about what to expect. Apply with confidence today! Learn our recruiting process

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end consulting engagements to improve performance and profitability for banking and payments clients across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Manage senior stakeholders, develop high-quality deliverables, and coach junior team members to drive measurable business outcomes.