Visa Consulting Analytics (VCA) Manager, New College Grad - 2025

Company Description

We will be accepting applications for this position from September 16th, 2024, to October 3rd, 2024.

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

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including issuers, merchant acquirers 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 Visa Consulting and Analytics team is looking for interns to support the team on strategic consulting engagements.   

The ideal candidate is a highly analytical individual ideally with previous business experience.   

Typical projects may include:   

How does a financial institution increase market share in consumer credit cards?   

How should a credit card issuer use emerging technology to acquire the best customers?   

How does a financial institution grow their credit card portfolio while mitigating credit risk?   

How does a financial institution optimize their product offering?   

How does a merchant partner identify market expansion opportunities?  

How does a merchant co-brand partner accelerate on-premise acquisitions?  

Responsibilities:   

• Play an integral role on a team of experienced professionals in delivering strategic consulting services to key Visa clients    

• Complete consulting engagements with other team members, including participating in interviews, analyzing confidential client data, and summarizing key findings   

• Conduct industry research and identify internal and external data resources to create custom analytics   

• Complete detailed analysis on client data and identify preliminary trends and themes in the data Develop client-specific presentations which address executive needs and deliver presentations to clients and internal Visa partners  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Pursuing an MBA degree program graduating January 2024 - August 2025 with 4 years relevant work experience  

Preferred Qualifications 

• Excellent client-facing communication, story-telling and presentation skills with ability to articulate findings in action-driven recommendations   

• Exceptional analytical skills, with the ability to process and summarize large amounts of  
  data into key strategic insights  

• Ability to form hypotheses on client issue root causes and validate thinking quickly using data   

• Knowledge of finance and accounting a plus  

• Strong team player with a willingness to collaborate across levels and functional  
  experts   

• Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to adapt  

• Strong intellectual curiosity to understand the root cause of issues and how to drive value for clients   

• Proficient and ideally a power-user of spreadsheet and presentation tools   

• An interest in learning advanced analytics tools (SAS, R, Tableau, etc.)  

• An interest in payments, financial institutions or consumer lending a plus   

• An affinity for payments technology and its future

Additional Information

Work Authorization: Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position. Future sponsorship will not be considered. 

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department 

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. 

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

Mental/Physical Requirements: This positio