Total 3 job vacancies by Visa

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.

What a Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics does at Visa:

This role in Japan will be responsible for delivering consulting engagements for our financial institution clients in Japan, enabling growth and improved profitability across their payments business.

A Consulting Manager is responsible for significant components of client engagements, and in some cases end to end delivery. 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 project reports and working with clients on executing recommendations.  The full range of responsibilities are detailed below:

Responsibilities:

• Support the preparation of client project proposals, providing input to objectives, scope, deliverables, approach, dependencies, roles and 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
• Collaborate with data science team to leverage advanced data analytics capabilities
• Collaborate with the market support center 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.

What a Senior Data Scientist does at Visa:

• Executing multiple medium to large analytic projects along with rest of the stakeholders in analytics & consulting teams
• Establishing best practices for change management, model automation and production rollout
• Familiarity with batch processing and process monitoring for model refresh
• Meeting with clients to explain model results, answer questions and propose further analysis
• Collaborating closely with clients to analyze clients’ data, extract insights, and create dashboards
• Actively seek out opportunities to improve processes and technologies
• Collaborating with the internal teams to fully understand business requirements and desired business outcomes
• Defining detailed analytic scope and methodology, and creating an analytic plan
• Executing with appropriate statistical and machine learning techniques
• Providing thought leadership in both using data to solve business problems and arriving at innovative technology and statistical solutions
• Ensuring project delivery within timelines and budget requirements
• Work as independent contributor mostly and as a team lead if needed by providing guidance to other team members when required

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Team Overview

Value Added Services (VAS) is one of three growth strategies for Visa globally, aimed at diversifying Visa’s revenue with products and solutions that differentiate its network and deliver valuable solutions across other networks.

All associated capabilities and services will report into the three functions in VAS – Acceptance Sales, Solution Sales and Technical Enablement. These functions together are accountable for both sales and end-to-end technical enablement of VAS products towards all types of clients such as banks, financial institutions, platformers, merchants, wallet providers, etc. The team coordinates across various business functions in Japan such as Client Relationship Management and Client Services, as well as our global offices, to support the business growth of our clients.

What a Solutions Manager does at Visa:
Reporting to a Director in Value-Added Services, the Solutions Manager role will be responsible for consulting clients on the technical architecture, value proposition and integration of our Value-Added Services products to clients. The Solutions Manager will work closely with our Client Relationship Management team, VAS Sales roles, Client Services and Asia Pacific Market Support Center in Singapore to leverage whole Visa technical expertise into client interactions and sales meetings.

The role requires you to lead consultation on client challenges, develop and refine new solution offerings, migration plans, and work with internal and external stakeholders to provide our clients an optimal integration experience with Visa Acceptance Solutions by demonstrating to our clients how our solutions can be integrated into their existing infrastructure and business processes while addressing any technical concerns.

Candidates should demonstrate skills in Sales Engineering, project management, consulting, and presentation/training in complex IT environments. The candidate should be familiar with SaaS solutions and/or the card payments industry. Although the role will not be directly responsible for signing new deals, the client-facing nature of the job will require a sales mindset and ability to explain how our solutions solve client problems and deliver value to the client. The right candidate will have passion for technology, project management excellence, customer advocacy, solving client problems, and will see this role as contributing to the strategic evolution of overall payment eco-system in Japan.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Lead client consultations to design, tailor, and refine Visa solutions to meet client business needs
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert on Visa solutions for both external clients and internal stakeholders
• Manage communication, expectations, and risk with senior stakeholders across Visa and client organizations
• Maintain a strong understanding of both Visa and client business strategies, aligning solutions to drive mutual growth
• Design and deliver training for customers, partners, and internal teams on Visa solutions and capabilities
• Create, maintain, and enhance technical documentation, including solution architecture and design materials
• Continuously build deep expertise in Visa solutions through close collaboration with global teams, acting as the trusted technical point of contact for clients in the Japan market

Why this is important to Visa
As a business whose success and growth is largely driven by how well our solutions deliver results for our clients, the Solutions Manager is needed to ensure Visa technology is deployed to solve client problems in the right way and maximize value for both our clients and Visa together.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.