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Based in Singapore, the position entails developing, writing, and publishing timely market driven insight and strategies on global currency and rates markets incorporating an awareness of impactful factors and events in the adjacent rates, credit and fund flow markets.

Candidates must demonstrate their keen interest in and familiarity with the mechanics of currency and rate markets, alongside a strong grasp of relevant macro-economic drivers and a love of conveying their ideas and opinions via a mix of shorter “pulse” and longer “insight” stories.

We want to meet professional candidates who can demonstrate their knowledge and passion alongside the ability to marry written insight with engaging charts and graphs utilising proprietary and other data resources.

To that end, proficiency with data handling tools, particularly Excel and VBA, as well as strong skills in data analysis and visualisation, are as important as market experience for this position.

The successful candidate should ideally have spent time as a professional currency, fixed income and or economic research analyst/strategist or reporter. Experience in bank trading or as an investment adviser in a private banking or fund set up would also be an advantage.

While an established contact base would be a distinct advantage, enthusiasm to build and maintain your own is a fundamental to success, as is proactively engaging with clients and contacts. Otherwise, a strong desire to produce real time, opinionated and concise market research and fluency in the English language are crucial.

Key Elements of the Role

• Provide support to generate trading insight and strategies in G10 and EM Asian Currency and Fixed Income markets and cross asset classes based on fundamental macro analysis and experience
• Contribute to ensuring an accurate and timely flow of reasoned opinion demonstrating close touch with markets
• Formulate and publish longer term research and presentations, incorporating fund flows, charts
• Exercise and apply sound judgement in analysis of market moving influences
• Develop and maintain a deep regional contact base, cultivating sources from both sell-side (bank) and buy-side (investor) communities
• Contribute to daily, weekly and special reports
• Provide flexible cover for colleagues across multiple disciplines and possibly time zones

Team Summary

In the Asia Pacific region there has seen a surge in the adoption of payments using QR code. This growth is driven by multiple factors such as - the widespread use of smartphones, increasing penetration of internet services and, adoption of QR by the real-time payment networks and fintech. This growth in QR code payments in not isolated in the Asia Pacific region. It is picking pace globally and, the trend is expected to continue in the coming years.

Visa is establishing it’s Centre of Excellence in Singapore which will spearhead Visa’s QR participation in this growing trend. A dedicated team will provide strategic direction, thought leadership, product and execution support, best practices, and oversight for QR based payment for Visa. While Asia Pacific region will be its operating and learning ground, the remit of this Center of Excellence will be global. This team will templatize its learning in the region and help shape market responses globally. The person in this Director - QR Product Management position is one of the team members of this CoE and, will be responsible to managing Visa’s QR product and report to the lead of Center of Excellence based in Singapore. 

What does a Director – QR Product Management does at Visa:

In your Product Management role, you will be is responsible for guiding the success of a QR product. This is a techno-commercial role spanning many types of activities, from strategic to tactical. The key expectations for the role are:

• You will be the subject matter expert on QR product. On a proactive basis you will often play the role of training and mentoring staff and, on a reactive basis you would be their go-to person for QR related questions or, problem solving.
• You will also be the advocate for Visa’s QR solutions, conducting sales pitches, workshop and training with varied players in the ecosystem including clients, merchants, regulators, and Visa’s various functional units.
• You will directly collaborate with key clients in the region and participate in their QR deployment journey. To drive adoption of QR code, you will provide them with user experience best practices, identifying right balance between convenience and security, onboarding processing or, help identify how Visa’s solution fit in their existing architecture.
• You will be expected to develop and maintain accurate, high-quality content for Sales pitches, implementation guides for Clients, internal implementation processes and, product marketing material.
• In this role you will closely monitor market trends, identify emerging opportunities, conduct periodic consumer and merchant research to remain current at all times. These activities will guide the QR product development roadmap for which you would be responsible.
• As you work with market team, clients and partners, you will also gather requirements for enhancing Visa’s QR offering. To translate these requirements into new capabilities, you will work with our internal new product development teams.
• Visa has a strong focus on growing value-added services. You will identify and commercialize different value-added services overlaying the QR payment transaction.   
• You will manage the on-going components of product management such as publishing road map, billing and reporting, maintaining documentation and handling exceptions.

Why this is important to Visa

The QR is one of the key initiatives for maintaining Visa’s payment leadership position in everyday spend. This role will be Visa’s subject matter expert on QR based payment over Visa’s network. The person in this role would not only be handful few subject matter experts in the company but will shape Visa’s QR solution and commercial success in this area.

Projects you will be a part of:

In this role, you will gain understanding of payment landscape not only within Asia Pacific as well as globally. As Visa’s subject matter expert for QR code payment you will understand the current market situations and, also get to shape the future of QR payments for the industry through Visa.