Senior Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA), Risk Practice

CR - San Jose, Costa Rica
Full-time
Posted Nov 15, 2026

Skills

Communication
Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Power BI
Problem Solving
Public Speaking
Spanish
Tableau
Teamwork

Job description

About Us

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

VCA team is looking for an individual to join our consulting practice and developing high impact projects for Visa clients in Central América supporting VCA Risk Consulting (Authorization, Fraud Management and Operational Functions). This position will be based in San José, Costa Rica. The potential candidate will be responsible for support and develop the risk and operational consultancies, extracting insights from vast amounts of data (including clients and or VisaNet), performing analysis of trends, finding key insights based on transactional information and qualitative analysis for Visa’s clients including issuers, acquirers and merchants. The candidate plays a key role in advising clients on strategies to mitigate financial risks. This position involves leading complex projects, developing risk management frameworks, and providing insights to enhance the overall authorization and fraud risk posture of the client s organization, with a specific focus on payment methods.

Potential engagements could include portfolio management diagnostics, authorization optimization strategies, assessments of current risk policies, development of scores, implementation roadmaps, optimizing client customer servicing processes, portfolio’s risk analysis, settlement analysis, operational implementations and migrations, among others.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

•10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD), ideally in quantitative field (e.g. engineering, mathematics, science and or business administration)

Preferred Qualifications

· 7 or more years of work experience with a bachelor s degree or more than 4 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

· Experience in consultancy is a must, preferred in financial institutions, fintech or payment methods

•Experience in fraud risk and / or authorization management is a must.

•Proven track record of leading and managing complex risk management projects for diverse clients, with a focus on the payment methods industry.

•Experience in operational process for payment methods (settlement, conciliation, issuance, etc) is a plus.

•Experience with fraud detection solutions such as Visa Advanced Authorizations, Visa Risk Manager, Monitor Plus, Sentinel, Lynx, Falcon, among others, is a plus.

•Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.

•Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI

•Transform data analysis to a business language.

•Strong interest in the future of payments is a must.

•Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely.

•Experience working Microsoft Tools.

•Strong teamwork, relationship management and interpersonal skills.

•Results oriented.

•Bilingual Spanish English (spoken written).

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.