Implementation Consultant

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.**

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 an Implementation Consultant does at Visa**:
This position serves as Visa Project Manager for implementation services provided to Clients (Banks). This is an individual contributor responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovation solutions. This role serves to gather and document project requirements while providing client consultative guidance on Visa regulations, fees, features and functionality.

In this role, you are expected to:

- Provide project management support to Visa clients and processors to ensure client expectations are exceeded
- Coordinate directly with client to analyze card program setup requirements to implement Visa products and services to support the business and formulate implementation solutions
- Report client project accomplishments and deliverables to management on weekly or monthly basis
- Confidently manage client projects in parallel to product developments and a changing landscape
- Manage non-routine, complex processing requests, as well as short term tactical and strategic customer initiatives
- Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement to improve team efficiencies and project delivery to clients
- Build and enhance positive working relationships with key Visa client institutions, processors and internal stakeholders
- Build a cohesive global workgroup and involve those global workgroups in communications and decision-making.
- Prepare and maintain detailed project plans, status reports, and issues logs
- 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 and having a professional demeanor
- 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
- Assume appropriate decision-making authorities to ensure flawless execution of project objectives
- Coordinate internal Visa resources to ensure delivery on commitments
- This position requires off scheduled work including late evenings / weekends in support of client and company configuration changes and associated post-production validation
**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.
**Projects that you will be a part of**:
This role manages the efforts of Visa technical and business resources, leads project discussions with Visa Clients (banks) to achieve a timely and error free implementation of new Visa products and services and/or add-on of Visa programs. This role is responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent work experience in a business analyst role in software or financial services
- Project management of retail banking, card schemes or new technologies that are applicable to the payment industry
- Good working knowledge of Visa’s payment processing systems including message routing, authorization, clearing & settlement and client connectivity a plus

What will also help:

- Effective time management, organization and planning