Consulting Manager

3 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Visa Full time

**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** Consulting Manager - Risk, Visa Consulting and Analytics - Sub Saharan Africa**

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA), the advisory division of Visa, is a global team of industry experts in strategy, marketing, operations, risk, and economics consulting, with decades of experience in the payments industry.

**Our VCA teams offer**:

- Consulting services customized to the needs of Visa clients business objectives and strategy.
- Business and economic insights and perspectives that impact business and investment decisions
- Self-service digital solutions Visa clients can leverage to improve performance in product, marketing, risk, and operations.
- Proven data-driven marketing strategies to increase clients ROI.
- Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable, and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.
- Individuality fuels our brand and our global team - we are proud that we are a talented team of individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it is taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefit offering.
- So, if you are not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore unfamiliar territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.
- If you think you could support Visa as a **VCA Consulting Manager,** we want to hear from you - together, let us make Visa a great place to work.

As a **VCA Consulting Manager - Risk **practice, you will undertake Operational Risk (i.e., authorizations and fraud) and Strategic Credit Risk-related consulting engagements for Visa clients across Sub Saharan Africa.

**You will**:

- Deliver engagements in Authorization, Fraud and Credit Risk to inform business strategies across the credit lifecycle (acquisition, underwriting, customer management, portfolio risk management).
- Deliver engagements in Risk Analytics (i.e., Credit Scoring for Consumer & SME Underwriting, Credit Scoring for Merchant Underwriting, Fraud Risk Scoring, Risk Based Pricing, Alternate Credit Scoring).
- Develop trusted advisor relationships with Risk Managers/Heads at Visas client and partner organizations.
- Participate in designing and implementing Risk advisory services and data driven solutions for Visas clients and partners.
- Partner and collaborate with in-market VCA consultants, data scientists and broader Visa client facing stakeholders to deliver Risk-related advisory engagements.
- Reengineer and/or package risk consulting methodologies and data driven solutions as appropriate, ensuring world-class best practices and efficiency through economies of scale.
- Ensure consistency, standards, and quality control of risk consulting methodologies in Sub Saharan Africa.
- Partner and collaborate with other Visa functions (e.g., Risk, Risk Products & Solutions, Client Services, CyberSource) to capitalize and optimize existing risk products and solutions.

**Type of projects you will be a part of**:
The nature of projects this **VCA Consulting Manager - Risk** practice role will include supporting Issuers, Acquirers, Fintechs and MNOs solve their most strategic business problems from a Risk perspective:

- ** Card/non-Card Payment Authorizations & Fraud Risk**:

- Fraud, Authentication and Authorization Optimization - Define optimal payment fraud, authentication, and authorization strategy for payments transactions with appropriate risk controls.
- Fraud Risk Advisory - Provide support to our clients and partners on reviewing their payment fraud strategy, enhance capabilities and optimizing monitoring rules.
- Cybersecurity Assessment - Provide support to our clients to identify vulnerability and prevent potential cybersecurity attacks.
- ** Strategic Credit Risk**:

- Credit Risk Diagnostic - Identify business opportunities to optimize credit risk management across the whole credit life cycle (on or off-balance sheet):

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