Operations Analyst

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Visa operates the world's largest retail electronic payments network and
is one of the most recognized global financial services brands. Visa
facilitates global commerce through the transfer of value and information among
financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses and government
entities.

We offer a range of branded payment product platforms, which our financial
institution clients use to develop and offer credit, charge, deferred debit,
prepaid and cash access programs to cardholders. Visa's card platforms provide
consumers, businesses, merchants and government entities with a secure,
convenient and reliable way to pay and be paid in 170 countries and
territories.

Job Description

  • Manage the day-to-day responsibilities of a team of
    professionals who provide first level support for Clearing and Settlement
  • Provide management leadership to members of the Visa
    Operations Command Center (VOCE) team including staffing selection, goal setting, annual reviews, compensation planning, career development, coaching and administrative support
  • Assist the SDM in developing and managing short term
    tactical and strategic support initiatives to meet the operational and
    continuity needs of Visa and our customers
  • Improve work processes, procedures and systems while
    reducing Visa's exposure to financial loss
  • Build relationships with all supported customers and
    service providers (internal and external) and act as a liaison to identify
    opportunities and challenges and to implement solutions
  • Represent the support teams on cross functional
    projects and ensure timely completion of agreed deliverables
  • Measure the overall support effectiveness and
    quality of work through metrics in order to maintain the standard of the
    Visa brand
  • Ensure that system and service disruptions are kept
    to a minimum and service levels are maintained
  • Demonstrate technical leadership skills in
    day-to-day work; take ownership of critical issues where appropriate,
    drive incidents to resolution in a timely manner as dictated by the impact
    and severity of the problem
  • Manage team workload to ensure all incidents,
    problems and requests are prioritized, assigned resolved or acted on in a
    timely manner. Also ensure all incidents and problems have a root cause
    identified where possible
  • Review and identify common problem areas that
    require focus and assign tasks accordingly
  • Working with the appropriate groups, administer and
         maintain policies and procedures to ensure a standard approach is adopted
         in the implementation of system changes and also mentor team members on
         these policies and procedures
  • Provide operational and support perspective on the
    adoption of new technologies and the implementation of new software
  • Demonstrate Leadership abilities and provide direct
    management to a team of professional individuals
  • Represent the VOCE team in relevant meetings such as
    process improvement and initiatives meetings
  • Support project schedules and changes
  • Work independently with guidance in only the most complex
    situations
  • Preside independently over Visa core
    processing including (but is not limited to)
  • Global Clearing and Settlement system that
    clears/settles billions of dollars every day of the year 
    through various National Net Settlement systems
  • Treasury system that involves the wire transfer of
    large amount of money between Visa, issuers and acquirers as well as the
    California State EDD social benefits debit card reload system that assures
    beneficiaries funds will be available the next day by following documented
    support procedures to meet established service levels. Failure to meet
    these service levels can lead to significant financial penalties and
    substantial negative brand impact
  • Monitor vigilantly all daily financial file
    transmissions and promptly resolve issues in accordance with established
    service levels
  • Communicate effectively and succinctly to both
    client and internal senior management – up to and including the Technology
    EVP – throughout the incident management process and ensure that all written
    and verbal communications are delivered timely and accurately
  • Assess accurately the impact of a critical/major
    incident and author communication for distribution to appropriate
    recipients within set time frames with guidance
  • Work on multiple platforms including ticket queue,
    mailbox, alert console and phone calls
  • Correlate critical alerts on monitoring platform
    with actual system outages
  • Track and update all incidents in the incident
    management system, ensuring that documentation is thorough, accurate and
    meets ticket quality standards
  • Review tickets for repetitive issues and collaborate
    with support teams to identify effective/sound solutions that will resolve
    these conclusively
  • Follow documented operations processes and
    resolution/escalation procedures
  • Possess the analytical ability to independently
    resolve routine problems following documented handling procedures
  • Generate a sense of urgency to complete work on time
    and inspire a strong commitment to achieving results
  • Embrace change and accept ambiguity
  • Develop a working knowledge of Visa Inc.'s global
    consumers, clients (including merchants), and third party vendors
  • Perform first level monitoring of MVS OS/390 to
    ensure a good overall health of the systems and respond to outstanding
    messages as required
  • Perform monitoring and resolve batch failures including abends
  • Good knowledge of batch operations including
    scheduling tool ESP
  • Good transmission knowledge on NDM and FTP
  • Good knowledge with OFD (Open File Delivery) and
    Tandem in relationship to Visa's Clearing and Settlement environment
    advantageous
  • Maintain technical skills through participation in
    on the job training and recommended training classes
  • Proficiency in analyzing and isolating anomalies
         presented via standard alerting utilizing a variety of hardware and
         software testing tools and techniques. Assist to provide or suggest
         solutions for the anomalies
  • 1-2 years of experience in batch processing,
    preferably in financial services
  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library
    Foundation Certificate (ITILv3)
  • Adept customer service background
  • Ability to make decisions guided by policies and
    circumstances
  • Proficient in English and possess excellent verbal
    and written skills
  • Proficient with MS Office products IT systems, Key
    Controls, and compliance knowledge


    Must be able to work shifts
    as assigned - Shift starts at 6:00 AM MT/8:00 AM EST and ends at 6:00 PM MT / 8
    PM EST the following day. Shift repeats every 2 weeks. Week 1: US Mon, Tue,
    Fri, Sat and Sun Days. Week 2: US Wed and Thu days

Qualifications

  • Experience managing a large team in a very diverse
    and de-centralized environment
  • Proven record of establishing and implementing
    objectives and tactical plans from overall direction and strategy to
    execution
  • Ability to interpret and represent technical issues
    into business concepts and solutions to multiple levels
  • Effective professional verbal and written
    communication skills along with solid presentation skills
  • Excellent team player
  • Strong reporting and documentation skills
  • Lead by example
  • ITIL v3 certification  
    Minimum of 5 to 7 years of
    experience

Additional Information

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