Client Services Manager - Visa Direct, Cross-Border Payments

Visa; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 105,710 - 155,710; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid Vacation

Wellness Programs

Job summary

A leading payments technology company is seeking a Client Services Manager for its Visa Direct team in Toronto. The role requires managing relationships with key Platinum clients, ensuring service excellence, and implementing improvements based on performance analysis. Applicants must have substantial experience in payments or client management. The anticipated compensation ranges from 105,710 to 155,710 CAD annually, accompanied by a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and wellness programs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience or advanced degree equivalency.
• Solid payments experience within a bank or fintech in service management.
• Detail oriented and able to analyze service performance critically.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop relationships with Platinum clients as a Service Manager.
• Promote service excellence and streamline processes for efficiency.
• Conduct regular service reviews and manage service improvement initiatives.

Skills

Payments experience

Client relationship management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Job Description

What is it all about?

The Service Management team is a crucial component of the Visa Direct Network and Operations' support model tasked with maintaining and developing robust and lasting relationship with our Key Accounts. As their client’s advocate, Service Managers understand their client’s business/business processes in detail and use the tools at their disposal to remove obstacles, deliver improvements and enhance the experience of being an VDNO customer, ensuring their service needs are met and agreed service levels achieved.

You will be assigned a number of Platinum clients to manage directly as their Service Manager. You will take a holistic look at service across all Visa Direct functions/platforms, measure and review service performance and either through direct or collaborative action, deliver improvements. You will work with your account management counterpart to maintain and grow the service and commercial relationship.

What we expect of you day‑to‑day:

• You will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on how your assigned clients use Visa Direct.
• You will promote a culture of service excellence and ‘best in class’ through leading by example
• You will streamline processes to improve efficiency, automation and scalability
• You will keep abreast of forthcoming system changes, releases, route changes, client launches, documentation changes and support your client through transitions
• You will be your client’s advocate within Visa Direct and sponsor / champion product and service change
• You will be available to your clients as an escalation point (during business hours) should BAU processes fail to deliver the expected results
• You will host regular service reviews with your clients & monitor service performance and any applicable SLAs
• You will manage a continuous Service Improvement Register for each of your accounts
• You will perform deep dive analysis and identify opportunities to optimize your client’s use of the service and promote service best practice both internally and to your clients
• On a rota basis, assume the role of Major Incident Manager in line with the Incident Management policy (training will be provided)
• You will produce and maintain a suite of service documentation and reports
• You will build a strong and collaborative relationship with your Account Management counterpart

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• What we’re after...
• Solid payments experience within a bank, fintech or payment processing institution in a client relationship management/service management role - is a MUST
• A detailed knowledge of cross-border and/or local ACH payment principles is a MUST
• A detailed knowledge of collections and FX capabilities
• Must be detail oriented with a proven ability to critically analyze service performance and client satisfaction data and implement practical and sustainable solutions
• Must be a natural relationship builder and effective communicator
• An ability to work cross-functionally to deliver improvements and resolve issues efficiently and effectively
• Exposure to SWIFT messaging standards is an advantage
• Comfortable managing and influencing internal/external stakeholders at all levels
• Adaptable and calm in the face of complexity and frequent service/operational change
• A strategic thinker who is self‑motivated, resilient and a strong collaborator with good interpersonal communication and negotiation skills

Visa is looking to fill vacant position Client Services Manager - Visa Direct, Cross‑Border Payments. The anticipated compensation range for this position is 105,710 CAD to 155,710 CAD per year, which includes sales incentive payments/annual bonus. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Stock Purchase Program, Life Insurance, Paid Vacation and Wellness Programs. Visa may use artificial intelligence when assessing and selecting candidates.

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.

Visa welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.