
Licensing Consultant
- Pasay City, Metro Manila
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work closely with client facing teams to provide upfront guidance and support to prospective and current clients on licensing and onboarding queries, including business expansions.
- Coordinate internally with Onboarding and Implementation functions and other stakeholders to improve client experience of onboarding with Visa and service offerings.
- Support Visa Partner Portal (VPP) queries related to Licensing flows.
- Monitor all license application workstream tracks across key stakeholders Compliance, Credit Settlement Risk & Risk Management, and update status in OneCRM Dynamics
- Execute requests related to administration of client’s licensing lifecycle, including sponsorship options, license upgrades and downgrades, mergers, acquisitions and terminations.
- Provide consultation on questions/issues across breadth of client’s licensing lifecycle, requiring in-depth understanding of Visa Bylaws and Visa Rules, and regulatory requirements.
- Present to client and internal stakeholders on the licensing process, timings, and expectations. This may require creation and/or customization of materials for the client(s) and internal stakeholders, providing status updates and advocating for the client with various internal functions.
- Formulate recommendations and refers cases to Manager, exercising judgment to identify unusual scenarios or potential risks.
- Identify trends in the business and escalates to management any areas potentially needing to be re-evaluated, provides recommendations accordingly.
- Alert leadership to situations outside of established policy or issues requiring extra level of customer service attention.
- Provide training to new staff or those taking new responsibilities, as well as requestors and partners to build awareness of licensing and facilitate smooth execution of requests.
- Contribute and participate in providing business requirements and enhancement requests for tools and systems that require engagement within and across teams and perform acceptance testing.
- Manage communication channels for Licensing resources to ensure they are up to date, client-focused and effective.
- Streamline licensing process for prospective and current Visa clients, including non-banks
- Work with cross-functional team to identify opportunities and leverage on internal tools and expertise and develop holistic solutions to help increase service quality, revenue and efficiency for clients
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or equivalent
- Minimum 8+ years of work experience in the financial services industry
- Effective planning and organizational, conceptual and logical problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to set and deliver upon priorities within busy, shifting environment
- Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to achieve results as part of an effective team, and ability to prioritise high volume of work and meet deadlines with constant detail orientation and quality.
- Effective professional verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and client-focus skills
- Ability to demonstrate strong consultative skills within areas of expertise.
- Ability to keep manager informed and involved on ongoing basis
- Capability to independently and persuasively communicate and negotiate with peers and cross-functional management to develop and reach agreement on proposals and work plans
- Ability to share knowledge and train others effectively.
- Comfortable working in global environment impacted by different legal, cultural and business priorities
- Working expertise in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Working knowledge of the payment industry and Visa’s business
- Knowledge of end-to-end licensing process, business drivers, and expectations
- Ability to understand impacts of client licensing data to downstream business and application processes, identifying solutions and relevant pros/cons of options
- Ability to synthesize technical information and apply to business
- Understands and preferably working expertise in Visa databases and workflow tools including VCIS, MSD, Playbook, etc.
- Ability to take “customer” view and apply to internal processes to improve delivery and results
- Ability to understand how global framework works in context of addressing specific local requirements
- Growth mindset, results oriented and able to drive delivery of solutions
- Focus on continuous improvement and ability to identify opportunities