Senior Analyst - Interchange Programs and Processing Implementations

Company Description

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.

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Job Description

Senior Analyst – Interchange Fee Processing and Fee Programs Implementations

Job Description

The Global Interchange Pricing Systems team is responsible for the technical strategy, enablement, and ongoing maintenance of interchange fee assessment logic and programs across Visa’s global business. This individual contributor role will primarily support the North America region, with occasional involvement in global Pricing and Interchange Strategy initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a liaison between Interchange Strategy, internal development teams, and client-facing Sales and Merchant teams.
• Manage projects of low to moderate complexity, ensuring the successful implementation of published and strategic interchange fee programs.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate execution of interchange logic.
• Develop and apply a deep understanding of Visa’s systems and processing capabilities to drive projects to completion.
• Recommend innovative solutions and enhancements to Visa’s interchange program configurations and internal processing logic.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• A self-starter with strong attention to detail and a background in Visa transaction processing and operations.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to understand the broader business context and identify effective solutions.
• Skilled in analyzing and communicating complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Comfortable working independently or collaboratively within a team environment.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and structured thinking approach.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance positive working relationships with key stakeholders and internal staff • Understand business needs and priorities to help the team develop solutions and recommendations

• Work with direct manager to understand needed strategies and achieve results by translating business needs into specific action plans

• Support the identification and implementation of necessary Visa processing systems enhancements to successfully support Visa interchange fee programs and processing capabilities

• Manage assignments that are diverse in scope seeking out appropriate courses of action

• Gain Subject Matter Expertise SME of Visa internal systems processing capabilities and services through training work experience and or self study

• Stay abreast of new rules products and services and industry and technology trends in support of Visa strategic goals and Client initiatives

• Use processing technology and business knowledge to assist stakeholders internal and external with inquiries related to interchange processing and fee programs

• Identify and analyze interchange processing issues with client impacts consistently communicate situational status and resolution

• Effectively collaborate with cross functional local and global teams • Exercise independent decision making while maintaining a focus on client impact and team collaboration This includes delivering recommendation to stakeholders at all levels on a daily basis

• Support Global Interchange Pricing Team development needs

• Define business requirements for new Interchange programs or enhancements to existing programs Analyze business needs and formulate implementation solutions Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure delivery on commitments Set priorities influence others and manage stakeholder expectations

• Review technical designs testing documents and user acceptance logs to ensure business requirements are met

• Support Merchant Specific interchange programs enablement Manage registration configuration and ongoing support required to enable Merchant Fee Programs

• Support post implementation validation activities to ensure expected interchange fee assessment is applied

• Review Client communications containing interchange fee programs related information

• Maintain group databases forms templates and internal process flows

• Maintain team training material