Consultant, Technical Solutions (Japanese Speaking)

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.

Job Description

Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) provides industry-leading implementation and operational support to Visa’s clients around the world. With our deep knowledge and expertise, we are a key internal partner to product and technology, bringing the voice of the customer into the design, development and successful deployment of Visa products and services. The team provides implementation support to financial institutions and their corporate clients who utilize a suite of CMS products and capabilities to simplify critical processes that businesses perform daily. 

Technical Solutions Consultants are 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, the Consultant will need to have strong analytical skills and is required to become technical knowledge expert to multi-functional business teams around them.

This role will handle difficult and complex product issues and be responsible for the resolution of issues that are escalated into the Technology organization. This position is an individual contributor role, which forms a part of a larger team.

You will be accountable for supporting clients in Asia Pacific, including Japan, for all CMS solutions and be the authoritative subject matter expert. 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 to clients, internally and externally, ensuring customer expectations are exceeded, and be the voice of the client

• Participate in cross functional customer service delivery initiatives across clients and Visa internal teams

• Coordinate internal resources to accomplish client’s and Visa’s objectives

• Drive problem and communication management for any critical issue affecting a client, or client issue affecting Visa

• Proactively notify clients regarding any widespread or business critical problems with the application, as well as scheduled periodic maintenance outages

• Build and enhance positive working relationships with key clients and internal stakeholders

• Report customer project accomplishments and deliverables to internal stakeholders

• Engage Technology and Product organizations to regularly review and identify permanent solutions to frequently encountered operational issues

• Educate and train clients on best practices for CMS products

• Represent difficult and mildly complex customer change requests, system or operational requirements. Negotiate and manage expectations internally and externally

• Develop and manage operational initiatives, special projects and client-driven continuous improvement plan

• On call support and possible weekend or holiday hours 

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

• Effectively Bilingual in Japanese and English
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or equivalent qualification
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in an external facing role as technical support in the financial services, payment industry, software or information services
• Experience working with API, file based batching processing and SFTP file transfer is highly recommended
• Previous technical support experience with Credit Card solutions like Central Travel Account, Virtual Cards or Expense Management solutions is strongly preferred
• Able to effectively communicate at all levels, and be comfortable interacting with eenior executives as well as other senior level client and internal contacts
• Demonstrated ability to articulate technical terms or processes into business language
• Strong interpersonal skills. Proven abilities in negotiating with and influencing clients and peers at the working level
• Demonstrate success in client relationship management
• Effective time management, organization, and planning skills
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written

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.