Analyst, Consulting and Analytics

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Team Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. VCA's core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments.

The VCA team is looking for an Analyst to join our consulting practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa's clients in Mexico. The potential candidate will be responsible for delivering and implementing projects across our customer base, as well as support business development activities. This person will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both, the preferred brand and unique business partner.

Potential engagements could include product development, program launch, customer acquisition, customer life cycle optimization, retention enhancement, benchmark analysis, profitability enhancement and others.

Essential functions include:

• Proactively engage with Visa's and VCA's internal teams in planning and project execution discussions, cultivate and support the management of a pipeline of work with our partners.
• Support the development of consulting initiatives working closely with managers and directors in identifying potential opportunities with issuers, merchants and other key players.
• Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address client opportunities and challenges
• Help build solutions, analyses and actionable insights that will help clients achieve their business objectives
• Partner with peers in other functional areas and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa's resources
• Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets to determine meanings insights and recommendations for clients
• Document best practices and sanitize deliverables to support the development of VCAs intellectual capital

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.  ​

Basic Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
• Fully Bi-lingual: English / Spanish 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Degree in Economics, Engineering, Finance, Business Administration or Actuary
• 2-3 years of work experience (at least 1-2 years of experience in Consulting, Investment Banking, Payment Industry, Product Development or Business Strategy is desirable)
• Knowledge and experience in project management, database management, process optimization, and professional level presentation development
• Strong analytical skills with intellectual and analytical rigor
• Capacity to structure complex problems, understanding the different alternatives for their solution. Comfort with ambiguous situations and information
• Strategic and analytical thinking with a strong attention to detail that leverages multiple sources of information
• Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Strong leadership skills to develop and guide conversations with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Team minded
• Technology mindset, curious, up to date with digital trends and applications

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.