Team Summary
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa's clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operations and macroeconomics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.
The VCA team within Japan provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients in Japan, that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management and digital strategy. The VCA Managed Service (VMS) arm of the team supports implementation of recommendations by embedding dedicated resources across clients.
What a Payment Operations Manager, VCA Managed Services does at Visa:
This role in Japan will be responsible for delivering the managed services for one of the largest issuing clients in Japan, enabling growth and improved profitability across their payments business.
A Payment Operations Manager is responsible for supporting client payment operations issues such as interpretation of Visa Business News, Visa Business Enhancement, monitoring fraud and approval ratio and providing proactive support to implement various initiatives related to payment operations. Typically, this will involve interacting with the client team, gathering and managing project inputs, analyzing data to form conclusions and recommendations, developing and presenting compelling reports and working with clients on executing recommendations. The full range of responsibilities are detailed below:
Responsibilities
- Develop a fact base by undertaking client interviews and analyzing client documentation or processes
- Analyze Visa and client data to benchmark client performance vs. industry averages to identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities
- Provide thought leadership on the latest local market trends, payment processing trends, Visa solutions, and technologies to generate new sales leads as solutions to identified client pain points
- Develop client education and training materials to communicate new Visa Rules, Visa Business News, essential mandates, Visa Business Enhancement Release and/or upcoming changes to ensure client readiness and service compliance
- Collaborate with data science team to leverage advanced data analytics capabilities
- Collaborate with the hub team, broader global team, or other functional teams to obtain specific subject matter expertise as needed
- Identify solutions and recommendations that address client objectives and result in performance improvement, leveraging relevant VCA methodologies, frameworks, and global best practices
- Design and deliver compelling presentations to illustrate findings, ideas, recommendations within consulting engagements and more broadly
- Support implementation of VCA recommendations or client initiatives, using project management and problem-solving frameworks
Why this is important to Visa
VCA’s services allow our clients to boost their business performance by leveraging Visa’s expansive market insights and data. This in turn drives Visa’s business, creating a win-win relationship where both client and Visa’s incentives are aligned to grow the business. This dynamic combined with the long-term relationship we have with clients enables a deeper level of engagement and impact compared to traditional consulting firms. VCA projects also help drive Visa Japan’s strategic initiatives and accelerate Japan’s transformation to a cashless society.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.