Senior Account Manager Job in Nigeria at Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments.
We operate one of the world’s most advanced processing networks — VisaNet — that is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa’s innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, pay ahead with prepaid or pay later with credit products.


Job Title: Senior Account Manager
Location: Nigeria-Lagos-Lagos
Organization: Client Support Services
Job: Account Management 
Description
PURPOSE

• The individual in this position will manage a range of complex problems of diverse scope and take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions without requiring guidance, except where escalating to management is appropriate. 
• The individual is considered a functional expert and must have strong understanding of the Client’s processing and operational business.

• - Serve as an initial escalation point for Regional Signature Clients for day-to-day support of all VisaNet products, services, processing questions and issues.
• - Represents client business and processing priorities to internal and external stakeholders for support and account planning activities
• - Identify, recommend and monitor, where appropriate, operational cost savings and/or revenue enhancements opportunities for Clients and Visa.
• - Provides guidance on Client processing strategies, environments, interfaces and business priorities.
• - Stay abreast of new rules, products and services, and industry and technology trends to be able to support Visa strategic goals and Client initiatives.
• - Maintain relationship with Clients to understand local market needs and trends and gain insight on the need to enhance the support approach provided.
• - Work closely with Business Development and Product team counterparts to understand sales goals and be able to adopt support to meet organizational objectives.
• - Identifies processing solutions, processing optimization opportunities and value-added solutions for Clients.
• - Help manage the biannual implementation of the Visa Business Enhancements for each endpoint client. Participate in all trainings and discussions for the BER.
• - Provides client education on card processing and business parameters, as well as other client specific education based on support trends or new service implementations.
• - Serves as the clients’ continuous coach and trainer.
• - Coordinate with other Visa teams to expedite the resolution and implementation of solutions to ensure that all Visa products and services operate at the highest level of performance.
• - Work closely with Support Lines, CCM and Project Implementation teams to prioritize projects, issues resolution strategies and be able to support organizational objectives.
• - Maintain relationship with internal and external Clients to understand assigned market needs and trends, and gain insight on the need to enhance support approach.
• - Advocate on behalf of clients to internal stakeholder organizations including CSS, Sales, Product, Systems, Risk and Legal.
• - Ensure required information is logged and documentation is completed and maintain for historical records and auditing purposes into VCSA. Provide operational and technical support for service interruption events

• - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Requires a minimum of 7+ years’ experience in a customer support role in financial services, payment card, software or information services.
• - Must be a self-starter with proven abilities in organizational, conceptual, and logical problem solving.
• - Customer focus with proven ability to establish productive working relationships with staff and management at all levels.
• - Ability to set priorities and manage customer expectations, and work both as part of a team and independently.
• - Strong technical aptitude with the ability to absorb technical information and apply to business solutions.
• - Proficiency providing technical and consultative support to external customers and identify business needs.
• - Demonstrate ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs.
• - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• - Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal skills are required.