Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, banks and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. Visa has built one of the world’s most advanced processing networks. It’s capable of handling more than 24,000 transactions per second, with reliability, convenience and security, including fraud protection for consumers and guaranteed payment for merchants. Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa’s innovations, however, enable its bank customers to offer consumers more choices: Pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. Governments around the world have switched to digital currency instead of checks for benefits payments and purchasing in order to increase efficiency and lower costs, saving taxpayers money. Visa is giving more people in more places access to electronic payments. From the world’s major cities to remote areas without banks, people are increasingly relying on digital currency along with mobile technology to use their money any time, make purchases online, transfer funds across borders and access basic financial services. All of which makes their lives easier and grows economies.
Job Description
- The Global Network Processing has overall business responsibility for growing network processing on VisaNet globally. As a Director with specific focus on network processing, this role will include responsibility for integration of business and processing achieving synergies of processing and product strategies. Additionally, Real-Time Payments and Open Banking focus on building and deploying innovative technologies to modernize payments around the world. To affect this global transformation, we are looking for leaders who are passionate about innovating and delivering truly differentiated payment solutions for specific marketplaces. Successful execution of this role will be achieved through a combination of leadership, payments and delivery knowledge, business, communication, and strategy skills in applying Visa’s overall payments offering.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Visa’s Processing, RTP and Open Banking strategy and agenda with the Government, Central Bank, and other regulatory institutions. Engage with these entities to maximize Visa’s influence within the electronic payments industry.
- Build effective partnerships with the Visa’s internal functions to ensure they are aligned to supporting priorities, in-market initiatives etc. and drive accountability for performance.
- Partner with regional product and executive teams to execute Visa’s regional strategy for RTP and Open Banking.
- Get buy-in for key activities and investment requirements as well as partnership requirements.
- Lead business development initiatives to respond to regional RFIs and RFPs, all while establishing strong working relationships across key banks, central banks, and other payment regulatory bodies.
- Manage closely Visa’s risks and issues in relation to Processing, ensuring effective risk mitigation and escalation as required internally and externally with government counterparts.
- Take overall responsibility of financial targets/goals for Processing in the assigned markets.
- Provide thought leadership on issues related directly or indirectly to the Processing and monitor the implementation of decisions taken by the different governance layers (e.g. Steering Committee, CEMEA Leadership Team, etc.).
- Recommend solutions to identified roadblocks across all areas of the business.
- Provide professional advice and consultancy to relevant stakeholders covering both tactical and strategic objectives.
- Undertake assessment of completed activities and deliverables to ensure deliverables are consistent with the Processing Strategy goals.
- Ensure the regional and country sales teams are effectively communicated to and that strategies and actions plans are understood by the relevant stakeholders.
- Support the establishment of a Processing budget to achieve business objectives.
- Identify, qualify, and quantify market specific opportunities in close cooperation with relationship management and product teams.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of Visa's processing capabilities overall with specific knowledge and leadership of network processing objectives.
- Ensure appropriate end to end project management including the testing and implementation of new processing opportunities with clients.
- Build revenue models associated with the delivery of new processing opportunities.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications
- Graduate School or Master’s Degree Preferred.
- Knowledge and understanding of payment processing including products and services, business systems and processes.
- Card issuer, banking, Retail banking, financial services sector or payment business experience.
- Strong Project management skills.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to achieve goals with minimal management oversight.
- Proven technical skills.
- Expert understanding and influencing the direction in Nigeria and West Africa by selling the VisaNet story (features, benefits, et al).
- Strong communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills to influence direction and change attitudes and decisions of senior level international bankers.
- Strong self-management skills including demonstrable drive and energy.
- Sales, business development experience and proven negotiation skills.
- Multicultural sensitivity and interpersonal relationship management, including the ability to work effectively within Sub Saharan Africa.
- Candidate must have the ability to travel frequently.
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