Client Service Manager

Visa Visa · Fintech · Singapore

Client Service Manager for Visa Direct portfolio in APAC, focusing on delivering best-in-class client experience, ensuring stability, value realization, and continuous improvement post-go-live. Responsibilities include managing client relationships, acting as the primary escalation point for issues, driving service enhancements, owning daily service performance, communicating performance updates, leading issue triage, ensuring adherence to regulatory frameworks, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and Sales.

What you'd actually do

  1. Maintain strong, trusted client relationships post go live, ensuring Visa Direct performs reliably and meets jointly agreed operational KPIs and SLAs.
  2. Serve as the primary escalation point for BAU client issues, incidents, and service inquiries, ensuring fast, coordinated resolution across global teams.
  3. Act as the “voice of the client,” driving enhancements to service processes, policies, and tooling
  4. Own day‑to‑day BAU service performance across transaction processing, connectivity, reporting, and overall service health, using dashboards and alerts to anticipate risk and mitigate client impact.
  5. Proactively communicate service performance, incident updates, trends, and improvement plans to clients and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum eight years of experience in Client Success, client facing service management, or Client Support within payments, fintech, or financial services.
  • Understanding of global money movement ecosystems, including account to account solutions, fintech platforms, non card networks, or real time payment systems.
  • Detail oriented with a proven ability to analyze service performance and client satisfaction, and implement practical and sustainable solutions that reduce operational overhead and improve client experience.
  • Experience collaborating with risk, compliance, legal, and control functions in regulated environments.
  • Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills, with a bias toward clarity, action, and continuous improvement.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to distil complex topics into clear and compelling narratives for executives, partners, and clients.
  • Demonstrated success influencing across matrixed organizations and working with global teams.
  • Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese is required.
  • Bachelors Degree.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Visa Direct, Visa Payments Limited, Currencycloud, or similar cross border or real time payment platforms.
  • Experience working in or alongside BAU operations, incident management, and service delivery teams in high stakes, round the clock, SLA driven environments.
  • Familiarity with collaboration and CRM tools such as Slack, Salesforce, MS Dynamics, or Zendesk.
  • Proficiency in additional Asian languages is an advantage for broader regional engagement.

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience collaborating with risk, compliance, legal, and control functions in regulated environments.