Sr. Business Analyst

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

Visa U.S.A. Inc., a Visa Inc. company, needs a Sr. Business Analyst (multiple openings) in San Francisco, CA to

• Responsible for business planning and operations for the Global Merchant Sales and Acquiring (GMS&A) organization.
• Support the implementation of strategic programs, reporting, data/analytics, planning and knowledge management/competitive intelligence.
• Business Operations-
• Focus on operations and ensuring that the MS&A sales organization is effective in providing client value and promoting adoption of Visa products and solutions.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc executive reporting (e.g. Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews, CEO Day, All Hands, client feedback/concerns).
• Support internal organization initiatives from ideation to execution.
• Provide regular visibility on progress, action items, blockers, risks, and dependencies.
• Serve as a thought partner and sounding board to help communicate and track organizational strategy and goals with both global and regional stakeholders.
• Enable processes for improving and sharing best practices to drive NPS, deal performance, strategic engagement.
• Strategic Projects-
• Work closely with functional, regional, and global management teams on strategic projects, bringing timely and value-add insight / analytical support.
• Help structure and solve business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to support development of recommendations on a wide range of business challenges.
• Collaborate with team members in the preparation and delivery of internal and client facing presentations.
• Support MS&A knowledge sharing efforts including managing internal sites, keeping content up to date adding new artifacts, engaging cross-functional partners, driving usage / change management and monitoring analytics.
• Data and Analytics-
• Develop rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis utilizing multiple data sources ensuring financial soundness / strategic alignment of recommendations.
• Analyze data and package for internal / client usage, creating an executable action plan tailored to our specific needs.
• Position reports to the San Francisco, CA office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, or related field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or in a business analyst-related occupation.  
• Position requires experience in the following
• Global payment knowledge / experience with a focus on the seller side (e.g., merchant or acquirers);
• Cross-functional stakeholder management including engagement with executives;
• Understanding of modelling to develop internal business cases to inform decision making;
• Crafting presentations for executive engagements;
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint;
• Gathering and analyzing information from multiple data platforms;
• Managing business operations and setting organizational goals;
• Project managing across multiple initiatives;
• Leveraging internal and external resources to create fact-bases, identify trends, and identify potential opportunities and risks; and
• Supplementary knowledge in pricing/interchange, and commercial deal structuring and modelling

Additional Information

Worksite: San Francisco, CA

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 does not require travel.

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 compute