Associate Business Analyst, New College Grad - 2026, Austin

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

As a Business Analyst, supporting Demand Management Function within Visa’s Technology management organization, you will manage a variety of functions including tracking Hardware asset deployments and partnering with technology stakeholders to assist with development, tracking and execution of multi-year technology strategy, budget projection and execution. You will support hardware purchases including maintenance renewals, and new purchases for technology refresh and organic growth. You will develop asset inventory baselines for major technology deals within Visa, writing business justifications, and execution to Visa procurement principles. You will get the chance to work with multiple teams, systems, and tools through a wide variety of data sources.

This position will gain an in-depth understanding of the business, strategic direction, organizational structure, and key vendor partnerships. You will help define success for IT financial efficiency and cost clarity programs by creating and tracking key metrics and developing consumption optimization programs.

Essential Functions

• Assist product owners with execution of technology strategy, keeping a view of the operating expense impact of key decisions
• Run SQL scripts to extract data from multiple data sources and have ability to normalize data based on product owner feedback
• Identify expense reduction opportunities with product owners and create plans and tracking to ensure execution of cost reduction strategies.
• Review demand for new purchases with product owners, validate that the demand aligns with technology strategy and present analytics to compare Visa’s usage of similar products within the category
• Manage spend for a technology lane with specific knowledge to adherence to key Visa procurement rules while identifying strategies for purchases that do not meet the rules
• Identify appropriate data sources to track deployment of assets across Visa and use the information across multiple sources to create infrastructure baseline
• Lead the team in delivering work products on consumption reports as well as other key initiatives that will help the Technology leadership to make strategic decisions
• Create and manage the budget for the IT technology lanes working in close partnership with the IT engineering teams and Business analyst team.
• Run sensitivity analysis and create cost models to determine best possible solution for Visa in support of technology purchase decisions
• Work closely with Technology partners to understand the technical details for hardware purchases and create business justification for purchases
• Draw actionable insights from raw data using strong quantitative skills and be able to influence stakeholder’s leadership to make informed decisions

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications  

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Science, Business Analytics, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business or related field, graduating May 2025 - August 2026. 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience working on large globally and virtually distributed teams 
• Experience in the following:   
  • Dealing with different software licensing methods in the FinTech industry  
  • SQL querying to help collect data from disparate sources  
  • Creating cost transparency and cost clarity programs for leadership  
• Analytical skills and experience using analytics tools such as Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.
• Technical industry experience and quantitative skills & experience taking raw data and drawing actionable insights from it  
• Understanding of infrastructure products and the core concepts behind "running IT like a business"
• Prior business analytics experience

Additional Information

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary for a new hire into this position is $77,000 USD which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition