Consulting Manager – Risk, Visa Consulting And Analytics – Sub Saharan Africa

Visa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 100 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking a Consulting Manager – Risk to oversee Operational and Strategic Credit Risk consulting engagements across Sub Saharan Africa. The ideal candidate will deliver insights into Authorization and Fraud, build trusted relationships with clients, and collaborate with expert teams to drive risk advisory services. This role offers the opportunity to work on strategic projects that impact the business landscape in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in Operational Risk, Fraud, and Strategic Credit Risk.
• Ability to deliver engagements in Risk Analytics.
• Strong relationship-building skills with Risk Managers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engagements in Authorization, Fraud and Credit Risk.
• Develop trusted advisor relationships with clients.
• Collaborate with market consultants and data scientists.

Job description

Consulting Manager – Risk, Visa Consulting and Analytics – Sub Saharan Africa Company Description Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 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 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 Visa’s client and partner organizations.

Participate in designing and implementing Risk advisory services and data‑driven solutions for Visa’s 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