Manager of Japan Business Planning & Operations

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.

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Job Description

Team Summary

The Japan’s Business Planning & Operations team is responsible for development of internal and external market-specific strategy efforts and to help govern the execution of the strategic priorities, and responsible setting and adjusting the financial rate of exchange (i.e., interchange reimbursement fee) between different stakeholders in the payments ecosystem and network pricing to optimize participation, innovation, security and growth. The individual will work with cross-functional areas of the business in conducting analysis to support strategy development aligned to the market, regional, and global priorities. These priorities will primarily be focused on the Japan market, including strategic economics and pricing for the Japan market.

This role will also support monitoring of competitive developments within the Japan market, and development of timely response to emerging trends and opportunities across Japan. The position is based in Tokyo, Japan.

 

What a Manager of Japan Business Planning & Operations does at Visa

The Japan Business Planning & Operations Manager has a key role in shaping the future direction of our business and works hands-on with the leadership team and business functions to connect academic business content to pragmatic, results-oriented output. This individual will support functional stakeholders in executing analysis and formulating recommendations.

The role is highly visible across the market and will have broad reach into a variety of teams within Japan. The ideal candidate must have the ability to gain deep subject matter depth on a multitude of topics on short notice and be skilled at the synthesis of multiple sources of information (qualitative and quantitative) in order to create real and actionable insights for leadership. He or she must stay in front of innovation trends in the payments industry and be able to develop an independent point of view on topics in the face of uncertainty and imperfect information.

Best-suited candidates will be a clear communicator as well as being analytical, self-motivated, and able to collaborate well with others from a diversity of backgrounds. This role reports to the Japan Head of Business Planning, Strategy & Operations.

 

Other Key Functions Of The Role Include

The position requires the ability to apply strong analytical and critical thinking skills to solve business problems, and quickly arrive at recommendations that drive corporate priorities.

• Support annual strategic planning process and development of long-range revenue growth plan
• Analyze Visa data, market reports and benchmarks to identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Support the development of long and short strategic plan as well as formulating strategic projects
• Support functional teams by identifying priorities and implementing necessary strategies to achieve financial year target while conducting performance management for key business volume targets
• Manage and troubleshoot reporting via data dashboards, perform root-cause analysis to resolve data discrepancies and ensure data integrity
• Partner with Japan leadership teams to formulate and execute key strategies for the market
• Collaborate with various Visa product, sales, consulting, marketing, gvt engagement teams and others to manage and track the implementation of strategic initiatives

 

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

What you will need:

• Fluent spoken and written English and Japanese
• Bachelor Degree with high academic achievement (preferably in fields of business management, in finance, economics, financial engineering, statistics, or econometrics or other related field)
• Strong sense of commitment and accountability, possess a business focus mindset, self-motivated to deliver work of the highest standard
• Ability to multi-task with strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to work in a time sensitive environment
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment, a true “team player” who goes the extra mile for the team, and coach team members
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficient in Excel for developing and maintaining financial models
• Strong presentation building skills with near mastery of tools including PowerPoint, Excel and Word
• Experience in consultative selling and collaborating with sales teams to help clients understand the benefits of products and services is a plus
• Comfort with participating in technical discussions and ensuring projects progress to schedule.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Tokyo, Japan

Job ID: 31fb14cc-2eb9-4256-8b3a-72960d9336bf

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-29T01:41:56