Solution Manager for Visa Direct - Manager for West & Central Africa

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.

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The candidate filling this role will be leading our efforts to grow and expand Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Visa Direct solution. Visa Direct is a payment service that Visa provides to clients (fintechs, issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants, and service providers) to facilitate fund transfers/disbursements to Visa and bank accounts globally using push payment technology.  In CEMEA region, Visa Direct consumer and business applications include remittances, person to person (P2P) transfer, person to merchant payment (QR payments), and funds disbursement (e.g. insurance claim disbursements, Payouts). 

We are at the core of Visa’s overall vision to be the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere. We are fueled by a diverse team of talented team-members who continuously raise the bar on delivering best-in-class products and services to people all over the world.

We are looking for Managers within our Solutions Management team with varying levels of experience and background (8-12 years) to join our progressive team.

The candidate should be able to lead commercialization and technical solution sessions with Visa clients and provide expert advice to clients’ business leaders and partners who want to use Visa Direct capabilities for various use cases (including assessment of clients’ business problem or market opportunity, helping clients use the right APIs, and leading solution architecture definition with clients).

The candidate will direct the clients’ technology teams on solution design and lead deep-dive sessions to define user flows.  In addition, he/she must be highly collaborative, bring a structured approach to client engagement and documentation, employ moderation and facilitation skills, have a passion for payments, and have an ability to communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences. The role will require leading complex solution discussions and will span multiple teams, projects, geographic locations, and time zones Visa is looking for self-starters that are thought leaders with a proven track-record of success in fast-paced payments technology environments with demanding timelines.

Responsibilities

• Be the ultimate Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Visa Direct capabilities in SSA region
• Work alongside a cross-functional team of Sales and Business Development to build and drive strategic business goals for Visa
• Work closely with our partners across the solution development cycle starting from strategy and solution definition through launch and go to market, by co-managing and driving the completion of key execution deliverables
• Responsible for leading design discussion and as well as deep dive workshops with clients for developing digital payment solutions leveraging Visa Direct APIs
• Able to identify relevant APIs based on client problems as well as explain in detail how Visa’s APIs function
• Coordinate resolution of issues and design of new solutions with the regional and global product team
• Track progress on projects’ implementations and act as first line of support for product related issues
• Stay abreast of trends in the payments, technology, business, identifying implications for Visa’s Product & Solutions strategy and our client’s businesses
• Adopt human-centered design thinking around how Visa can improve its customer experience across Visa’s product and solutions sets
• Support management of project pipeline and driving the client engagements as per opportunities pipeline
• Manage through influence, but without direct management authority
• Embrace teamwork while promoting a culture of openness and flexibility