Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

Team Summary

Client Services provides industry-leading operational support to Visa’s clients around the world. With our deep knowledge and expertise, we bring the voice of the customer into the design, development and successful deployment of Visa products and services. We are trusted partners to Visa’s clients, providing expertise to support and successfully grow their business.

 

What the Consultant, Client Success, for Japan does at Visa:

As a Client Success Consultant based in Tokyo, you will be leading Client Services operational engagement for Visa clients in Japan, serving as an operational/technical consultant for Visa Commercial and Money Movement Solutions products. This is an individual contributor role working independently under limited supervision and requires strong execution, technical knowledge, analytical skills, and relationship management with key stakeholders and clients.

The Consultant is the face of Visa’s support organization to Visa’s clients and represent these clients internally to business, product and technology teams. You will need to have a strong collaborative mindset, strong technical aptitude along with executive level written and oral communications skills. In addition to these skills, a Consultant will need to have strong analytical skills and is required to become technical knowledge expert to multi-functional business teams around them.

You will be accountable for supporting clients in Japan for all products relating to Visa Commercial and Money Movement Solutions. This includes managing the operational side of the client relationship and identifying and enabling the right services and capabilities to drive growth and optimize the client relationship.

 

In this role, you are expected to:

Provide high value customer service support on day-to-day items to Visa Clients and internal staff to ensure customer expectations are exceeded, be the voice of the client.Build and enhance positive working relationships with key clients and internal stakeholders.Project manage and lead enablement activities for existing and new products introduced to the market, tapping on Global and Regional resources for execution.Develop and manage operational initiatives, special projects and client-driven continuous improvement plans.Identify leads, and implement opportunities to improve the client experience by data-driven optimization and streamlining of operational processes.Understand and support market strategies, develop and track client success plansAct as liaison and escalation point for the client, provide problem management, proactive identification of processing efficiencies, service change support and system enhancement support.Coordinate internal resources to accomplish Visa and client objectives, accelerating time to revenue. Participate in cross functional customer service delivery initiatives across clients and Visa internal teams.Drive problem and communication management for any critical issue affecting a client, or client issue affecting VisaProactively notify clients regarding any widespread or business critical problems with the application, and leads internal and external recovery efforts of product and/or processing service interruptions.Engage Technology and Product organizations to regularly review and identify permanent solutions to frequently encountered operational issues.Educate and train clients on best practices, increase adoption for Visa Commercial and Money Movement Solutions products.Represent difficult and mildly complex customer change requests, system or operational requirements, negotiate and manage expectations internally and externally

 

Why this is important to Visa

The Consultant is vital in helping Visa to deliver against the operational needs of a key market, allowing us to provide the right support and partnership that recognises client specific requirements. This role provides an excellent opportunity to grow Visa’s business in Japan by driving value to our clients through effective enablement and customer centric support.

 

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

Qualifications

What you will need:
We are looking for an individual who brings breadth of experience, a curiosity about payments, is results-driven and client focused. As a candidate, you should have:

Strong communications skills in English and Japanese (both verbal and written) to support portfolio of clients from Japan.A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification minimum of 8 years of experience with roles in Support, Pre-sales and Project Management in the financial services, payment industry, software or information services is requiredStrong technical aptitude with the ability to absorb technical information and apply it to business solutionsSelf-motivated with the ability to work under pressureStakeholder management with a diplomatic approach and customer service focus, while possessing a collaborative teamwork spirit and proven abilities in organizational, conceptual, and logical problem solvingCustomer and business focus with proven ability to establish productive working relationships with staff and management at all levels. Demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical terms or processes into business languageAbility to set priorities and manage customer expectations, and work both as part of a team and independentlyStrong interpersonal skills and proven abilities in negotiating with and influencing clients and staff at the working levelExcellent time management, organization, and planning skillsExcellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal skills are required. 

What will also help:

Operational experience relating to card processing and commercial card ecosystemsAble to relate the operational needs of the client to their business driversCommitted to excelling with partners, with a record of accomplishment in understanding, anticipating and delivering the client’s needs.Lead by example, taking accountability to organize across the company to deliver at the highest standard.

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

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.