Business Analyst, Strategy and Operations, Visa Consulting and Analytics

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.

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

Job Description

Job Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including both financial services and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, Visa Consulting and Analytics solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

The Strategy and Operations (S&O) team supports the North America VCA team through setting standards, developing foundational processes, assisting with budget and driving operational performance for the consulting organization. This Analyst, VCA North America Financial Business Operations role will work on financial and operational projects, with a particular focus on Product and Experience Design (PxD) operations. Product and Experience Design for VCA enhances user experiences and creates new products by conducting research, developing value propositions, and creating prototypes.

As the Analyst, VCA North America Financial Business Operations you will help enable the team’s growth by managing resources for projects, reconciling project and revenue data, managing vendor onboarding and offboarding, managing vendor expenses, and serving as a strategic partner for the PxD leads and other stakeholders. The role will work closely with Finance, Sourcing, Controllership, and the PxD leadership team. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop project pipeline and resource management reporting for PxD.

• Assist with PowerPoint presentations.

• Manage PxD resources for projects and verify the staffing data.

• Reconcile project and revenue data.

• Manage the PxD professional services fee budget.  Develop expense forecasts by quarter and year.  Report status of pro fee budget to senior leadership in VCA and Finance. 

• Manage the administrative and operational aspect of vendor selection and onboarding process. Collaborate with the Visa procurement team to submit Request for Proposals (RFP) and Statements of Work (SoW) in the internal Visa system, ensuring a correct, seamless and expedited process is approved.

• Collaborate closely with Sourcing and Controllership functions on working to resolve vendor management issues.

• Supporting broader S&O team with ad hoc strategic projects that impact the VCA organization.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 2 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 2 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Master’s Degree in Business
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Proficient and ideally a power-user of with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent communications skills
• Demonstrated proficiency in developing executive-level presentations
• Demonstrated expertise in managing complex projects
• Collaborative approach with internal and external partners
• Resilient in navigating through ambiguity and translating the theoretical to applicable
• Growth mindset that embraces creativity, optimism, and failing-fast

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a d