Job DescriptionVisa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including both financial services 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 NA Consulting Practice within VCA provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s largest issuers in the United States. We apply deep expertise in the banking, payments & analytics industry to provide impactful to assist clients with their key business priorities, drive growth and improve profitability. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to deliver solutions that address unique challenges in areas such as improving profitability, strategic growth, customer experience, digital payments and managing risk.The VCA team is looking for an Analyst to join our Regional segment to support the team on strategic consulting engagements.Most engagements are focused on developing strategies for our clients e.g. market penetration strategies, profitability analysis, segmentation, growth, product development, program launch, customer acquisition, customer life cycle optimization, retention & enhancements.Specific responsibilities include:Proactively engage with Visa internal teams in regular strategic & planning discussions.Contribute to consulting project work, which involves:Data analysis to identify key areas of opportunity.Desktop research to do competitive research, gain industry insights, etc.Building a storyline to help the client link insights to recommendations.Developing frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.Build solutions and actionable insights that will help clients to grow their portfolios and customer engagement in their core business.Partner with peers in other functional areas (marketing, sales, risk, innovation, new flows) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources.Produce insights, analyses and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the verticals and segments.Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for clients.Assist with business development efforts within assigned territory/team as time permits.Leveraging data tools to help derive high level insights and recommendations.Developing proposals for clients.Incumbents applying for the role should be self-motivated, highly energized, detail-oriented individuals who will deliver strategic thought leadership, problem diagnostics and high impact solutions to clients support the growth and performance. Candidates must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with internal and external clients and across the Visa organization. The ideal candidate will be able to juggle multiple tasks, and understand the debit/credit payments space and nuances within the Regional client segment. This is an individual contributor role, reporting into a Director within VCA.  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.
