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 and 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. In Asia Pacific (AP), VCA has geographically focused teams and the Center of Excellence (COE) team, which provides expertise in specific industry or functional verticals (Digital, Risk, Business Solutions, Acquiring and Merchant). What the Manager Risk Consulting, Visa Consulting and Analytics does at Visa: The VCA COE Risk team is responsible for delivering Risk advisory services to Visa’s clients across Credit and Fraud Risk. The Manager Risk Consulting will report into the VCA COE Risk Practice and will contribute to the delivery of Credit Risk and Fraud advisory engagements. The team closely collaborates with business stakeholders to understand the business problem in order to determine the most appropriate consulting and analytic approach that provides meaningful results to clients. Responsibilities include hands-on delivery of projects on time and within scope with an in-depth knowledge of big data, data mining and modelling techniques. The person must be results oriented, highly organized and must be focused on delivering innovative analytics and consulting work. We are looking for a motivated, analytically minded individual with a track record of using Risk expertise to unlock business value. Key responsibilities for the Manager Risk Consulting:

• Contribute to the delivery of Credit Risk and Fraud advisory engagements across Asia Pacific
• Collaborating with the client’s team (both internal and external) to understand the business problem and desired business outcome
• Defining detailed scope and methodology, creating and executing on the framework
• End-to-end delivery of multiple projects within timelines, scope and budget requirements
• Ensuring all project documentation is up to date and maintain the highest levels of quality in deliverables
• Develop Credit and Fraud Risk data driven solutions (Credit Scoring for Consumer, SME and Merchant underwriting, Alternate Data Scoring, Authorization and Fraud Optimization, Fraud Risk Prediction/Scoring).
• Support the development and maintenance of consistency, standards and quality control of Risk consulting methodologies, ensuring world-class best practices and efficiency through economies of scale
• Support the development and maintenance of Intellectual Property (IP) risk repository for VCA by capitalizing on learnings from consulting engagements (e.g. build standard methods and frameworks, create library of case studies, templatize modeling approach and codes)
• Work as independent contributor mostly and as a mentor to other team members by providing guidance when required

Why this is important to Visa: With a rapid change in the payment landscape, new regulations around Open banking and Open data and the emergence of new Fintech players – the payment ecosystem is rapidly evolving, and our clients are looking to Visa as the payment experts to help them navigate through the opportunities and challenges that these changes pose. Visa with its global reach and rich transaction data set is ideally positioned to assist clients solve their strategic business problems and drive growth. 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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Technical:

• Candidate with 5+ years of analytical experience in applying statistical solutions to business problems
• Post Graduate degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in Quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or equivalent experience preferred
• Hands on experience with one or more data analytics/programming tools such as SAS/Salford SPM/Hadoop/R/SQL/Python/Hive
• Proficiency in some of the following statistical techniques: Linear and Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Markov Chains, Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, Clustering, Principal Component Analysis, Factor analysis etc
• Experience in banking / consumer lending industry preferred
• Experience in credit risk analytics (model development, strategy and framework, scorecard development, documentation, validation, governance, implementation and automation etc.)
• Understanding of credit bureaus and non-traditional data providers will be a plus
• Demonstrated ability to innovate solutions to solve business problems

Business:

• Results oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Good business acumen with strong ability to solve business problems through data driven quantitative methodologies
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style. Complete team player, able to work across cultures, upholds and promotes highest ethical standards and mutual respect in the workplace
• Proven skills in translating analytics output to actionable recommendations. Experience in presenting ideas and analysis to stakeholders with the ability to tailor data driven results to various audience levels
• Detailed oriented. The best candidate is expected to ensure highest level of quality/rigor in deliverables, reports and data analysis
• Exhibit intellectual curiosity and strive to continually learn

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 has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in Singapore are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.