Analyst, NA Product Data Center of Excellence

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

The Product Analyst will support work streams on projects related to Visa Inc.'s products, interchange, pricing strategy and/or broader corporate initiatives, including collaborating with business lines across functional areas. Specific projects will vary greatly in sponsor, business or strategic focus, depth, and stakeholder served, ranging from broad coordination efforts across multiple functional areas to focused special assignments for senior management that are of particular high strategic importance to Visa Inc.

The position requires the ability to apply strong analytical and critical thinking skills to solve business problems, and quickly arrive at recommendations that drive corporate priorities.

The Analyst will report to the Manager, NA Product Data Center of Excellence.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Support elements of NA product and pricing strategy development and refinement, including opportunity identification, strategic analysis, reporting, and sizing of impacts of implementation

• Support pricing modeling, dashboard creation, identification of key metrics and forecasting, including but not limited to business case and stakeholder impact assessment development around all proposed new products, fees/services and/or rate modifications

• Identify, prioritize, and execute the activities required to support Visa's corporate strategies, priorities, and special initiative projects

• Work within cross-functional and cross-regional project teams to solve corporate business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues

• Use Visa´s transactional databases to assess a broad set of quantitative and qualitative issues, and synthesize this information from large datasets into key points for Divisional management

• Communicate and generate support for recommendations among business leaders across the organization

• Educate internal stakeholders on Visa´s product and pricing strategy

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 work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

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)
• BA / BS (MBA / MS Preferred)
• 1 - 3 years of experience in financial services, payments processing, and/or strategy consulting
• Additional work experience in financial and strategic analysis is preferred
• Experience in managing competing demands of multiple projects at the same time, often with overlapping sets of stakeholders and individual timelines
• Ability to work independently, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to build rigorous, fact-bases that support recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional management.
• Ability to handle multiple project work streams. Must be able to develop content independently, often under significant time constraints.
• Should be able to prioritize work flow with limited supervision.
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Understanding of macros, Tableau, and PowerBI, a plus
• Experience with SQL, a plus
• Eagerness to work intensively in joint teams with personnel of all levels to accomplish project objectives.
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages in written and verbal communications.
• Strong interpersonal to build credibility as a ‘peer’ with Global Functions.
• Strategic thinker with ability to evaluate ideas and proposals with