Job Description

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.



Team Summary

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa\'s consulting division, serving Visa\'s clients (including card issuers, acquirers and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact and tangible financial results. The incumbent will be part of VCA geographic team cluster of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand markets (SMT), and will be responsible for consulting engagements with Visa\'s clients in the three markets. The team is involved in a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management, digital strategy and data-driven portfolio management decisions.

If you like to deliver, and execute a fact-based, data-driven solution to solve for business problems that deliver value and enable clients to win more businesses, you should apply.

What a Manager does at Visa:

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa\'s clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services, data analytics and solutions to our clients that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management and digital strategy.

We are currently looking for a Manager to undertake the delivery and execution of consulting engagements for Visa clients across Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, enabling portfolio growth and improved profitability in clients\' payment card business.

As a Manager you will be leading the delivery and execution of Visa Consulting and Analytics engagements for clients in SMT. In this role, you are expected to:

• Cultivate relationship with Visa\'s clients and partners - Issuers, Acquirers, Merchants & Fintech firms, by being strategically focused, optimize client performance and implement recommendations in areas of customer life cycle management, and new product development and launches.
• Drive client conversations with the client working team, execute and embed our solutions within the client\'s environment. Building content and engagement delivery involves strong project management skills.
• Work cross-functionally with other Visa teams to bring a holistic solution to our clients leveraging Visa\'s rich value-added services (VAS) from functions such as Marketing, Products, Risk, and Merchant Solutions.
• Develop propositions by closely working with Account Executives in managing the scope of work and project timelines
• Work across advisory practices (Risk, Digital, Portfolio Optimization, Merchants) to execute engagements across the VCA verticals.

This role reports to the Head of VCA for Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Why this is important to Visa

As a payment consulting arm of Visa, VCA is growing a team of highly specialize experts that can provide best in class payment expertise to the client. We want to bring this expertise closer to our clients by having a Manager to drive, execute, and support projects for the Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand (SMT) cluster. We are a global organization leveraging global expertise and best practice with local knowledge and understanding of our client partners. This enables us to deepen our partnership with our clients and bring value to their business.

Projects you will be a part of:

• As part of the team you will get opportunity to work on strategically important projects for clients.
• As an example, you might be working with an issuer client to assess opportunities across cardholder lifecycle, conduct gap assessment and determine strategy or provide best practice recommendation to the Bank.
• You will bring to life data analytics solutions and propensity models built by the Data Science team to ensure clients find value to take action such as running marketing campaigns to drive payment card activation and usage, changing policies or processes, launching new products, opening new channels, among other things.
• You will be the project manager of several engagements across SMT, working with the clients\' teams in providing guidance and supporting the teams in executing our solutions.
• You will be collaborating closely with VCA\'s data scientists to jointly produce insights on analyses.

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.

Qualifications

What you will need:

We are looking to hire candidates that have already accumulated a variety of experience, you will be curious about the payments industry, results-driven and client-centric. As a candidate you should have:

• Experience in business management
• Strong Digital know-how and experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects with excellent project management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and strong project management skills
• Strong internal team and external client stakeholder management with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style; able to work effectively in a matrixed organization
• Strong presentation skills, including strong oral and written capabilities
• Self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to progress multiple priorities concurrently
• Experience in and passion for the power of analytics and a tenacity to implement
• Experience in working on business value cases that prove ROI
• Solutions-focused mindset and resourceful

What will also help:

• Minimum 5-8 years of experience in retail banking or financial services consulting, with most of that time in cards and payments and/or closely related industries
• Experience in key issuer business areas, such as portfolio management, marketing, product management, operations, risk management, for both credit and debit cards
• Consulting experience preferred with payments, project management and/or process re-engineering credentials preferred
• In-market experience and/or knowledge of local culture and industry trends
• An understanding of statistical analysis, modeling, scoring schemes, etc.

Please Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the evolving visa/travel restrictions in place, we are currently only able to extend offers to candidates with the right to work in Singapore. We are keeping the situation under close review and will adjust accordingly should the restrictive measures be lifted.

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.

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