Senior Manager, Client Services Advisory

**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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

**Team Summary**

The Client Services team 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.

The Client Delivery team is responsible for designing the client service experience for new solutions and delivering end-to-end client implementations for products, solutions, infrastructure and new client onboarding.

**What a**Senior Manager, Client Services Advisory** Services does at Visa**:
Client Services Advisory is a team of specialized project and program managers providing high touch support for strategic projects and non-routine client requested initiatives which would benefit from Visa technical expertise.

This position serves as Visa Project Manager (PM) for implementation services provided to Clients with specific focus on new client onboarding (including fintechs), strategic, multi-market and multi-solution and multi-phased projects. Depending on the complexity of the project, the PM may perform an additional role of an Advisor and deliver consultancy services to the client.

This is an individual contributor responsible for high-touch delivery while solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. This role serves as a critical touchpoint with Visa Clients, to ensure the implementation is executed successfully with a Go Live objective.

In this role, you are expected to:

- Lead and execute Visa client projects across new client onboarding and strategic client projects to ensure customer expectations are exceeded while maximising Visa Solution adoption and implementation in parallel to product developments and a changing landscape
- Represent the CS Advisory team to generate and follow up on advisory deal leads in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific (AUNZSP) cluster with the Client Success Management team
- Drive pre-sale discussion, dealmaking and pitching activities to deliver technical advisory services on deep dive topics to solve clients’ technical and operational challenges
- Coordinate directly with clients to analyze card program setup requirements to implement Visa products and services to support the business and formulate implementation solutions
- Prepare and maintain detailed project plans, risk/mitigation plans, status reports, and issues logs to enhance internal and external communications
- Gather and document project requirements while providing client consultative guidance on Visa regulations, fees, features and functionality
- Represent client system and operational requirements to internal Visa organizations. Constantly create good functional collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, by being able to speak confidently with a professional demeanor
- Set priorities, influence others, manage client expectations and multi-task under tight deadlines
- Be accountable for delivering agreed objectives. Be responsible for own workflow assignments and must be able to take the initiative to resolve problems and ensure delivery on commitments
- Orientation towards quality enhancement and process improvement; proactively identify opportunities and implement recommendations to increase service quality and/or efficiency
- Assume appropriate decision-making authorities to ensure flawless execution of project objectives
- Coordinate internal Visa resources to ensure delivery on commitments

**Why this is important to Visa**:
The role works across a breadth of internal and external stakeholders to achieve the stated project objectives. If required, this role escalates projects that are in jeopardy and works with line management within Visa and the Client organization to make decisions that bring needed resources to resolve any issues. The role serves as a technical/functional specialist and works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations.

**Qualifications**:
**What you will need**:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification
- A minimum of 10+ years’ experience in a customer support role in financial services, payment card, software or information services
- Possess deep Subjec