Sr. Project Analyst

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

• Manage multiple large technical projects, independently own and manage multiple change requests, new initiatives, etc.
• Mindset to read and understand detail business and technical requirements.
• Identify key stakeholders and work to achieve project objectives.
• Create detail project schedule, Gantt chart, critical path, etc.
• Manage project status report, issues, action items, risks, change log, internal and external dependencies, etc.
• Follow up on issues and action items towards resolution.
• Regularly monitor and report on project progress.
• Facilitate project status meetings, requirements and design discussions, and defect status reviews.
• Coordinate project estimating process, manage project budget, forecast, planned vs. actual.
• Work with vendors to develop, review and execute contracts.
• Develop innovative methods to effectively manage project constraints.
• Own and manage project SharePoint site, Project Work Book (PWB) and project communication plan.
• Work with project team to enforce Visa compliance requirements.

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:

• 5+ 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Computer Science, IT and/or a Technical Project Management background (education/work experience).
• PMP or Agile ACP certification required.
• 8 years of project management experience required, preferably with Network (LAN, WAN), Collaboration (SharePoint, Exchange, Streaming) and Client Engineering technologies.
• SQL Querying, Data Synthesis and basic Java skills required.
• Prior experience/knowledge of Visa's PMM processes is desirable.
• Proven experience in managing people, processes and projects in a heavily matrixed organization structure is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams in the delivery of large scale software development, operational and integration efforts.
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle from requirements gathering to post-implementation production support, including quality assurance and system integration.
• Strong process orientation and a solid understanding of project management techniques, methodologies and best practices.
• Understanding of client contract management.

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 desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicab