Sr Manager, Client Implementation

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.</p><p>When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.</p><p><strong>Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.</strong></p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Client Services provides industry-leading 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, and enabling our client facing teams to deliver and scale new products in the market. As a part of the Client Services organization, Endpoint Implementations provides project management to financial institutions, fintech partners and their corporate clients who utilize a suite of Visa products.  Areas of focus include IT Infrastructure and project management.</p><p> </p><p>This role is an individual contributor, responsible for managing moderate to complex infrastructure-related projects, along with applying independent judgment in resolving issues and making recommendations. Primary responsibilities include providing project management support to Visanet clients (e.g., issuer, acquirer, third party processor, merchant, payment service provider) with direct connections to VisaNet by way of Visa's proprietary connections.</p><p>Provide subject matter expertise support to the broader team.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Job Scope</strong></p><p> </p><p>This is an individual contributor role responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. This role serves as a technical/functional specialist and works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations.</p><ul><li>Provide implementation project support to Visa Endpoint clients (financial institutions and processors) operating in the EU region, ensuring expectations are met or exceeded.</li><li>Coordinate directly with clients to understand their program setup requirements, facilitate new program installations, conversions and maintenance requests without operational impact.</li><li>Manage a wide variety of project initiatives, primarily with Visanet clients, using Project Management best practices and skills.</li><li>Coordinate efforts with other internal and external project resources to ensure deliverables and commitments are met.</li><li>Work closely with Visa’s technology and product teams to understand new business initiatives, as well as impact on current and new client programs.</li><li>Manage non-routine, complex processing and change requests, related to tactical and strategic client initiatives.</li><li>Responsible for own workflow assignments and must be able to take initiative to resolve problems and meet deadlines.</li><li>Proactively identify and recommend opportunities for process improvement resulting in improved efficiency and effectiveness, and increased customer satisfaction.</li><li>Build and enhance positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.</li><li>Prepare and maintain detailed project Artifacts, including project plans, status reports, meeting minutes, issues logs in support of client projects and/or initiatives. Apply Visa processes and approaches to be in line with client requirements.</li><li>Manage internal and external project communications (meeting minutes, dashboards, etc.), providing regular and consistent updates to appropriate parties.</li><li>Report on client project accomplishments and deliverables to management and different stakeholders.</li><li>Provide training to internal and/or cross-functional teams, as applicable.</li><li>This position may require off scheduled work including late evenings / weekends in support of client and company configuration changes and associated post-production validation.</li><li>Act as the Project Lead for various initiatives - both internal and external - using Project Management best practices and skills.</li><li>Proactively identify operational opportunities to increase service quality or efficiency.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Relationship Management:</strong></p><ul><li>Work with clients to understand their needs and communicate best of breed implementation solutions utilizing