Team Summary
The Global Data Science (GDS) group within Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) partners with markets and internal business units to turn Visa's unique data assets into insights and actions. The Internal Analytics team supports Greater China stakeholders with scalable analytics, measurement frameworks, and self-serve decision tools that enable faster, better commercial and operational decisions.
What an Analyst, Data Science does at Visa:
In this role, you will be responsible for delivering impactful analytics that influence strategic decisions across Greater China. Key responsibilities include:
- Own and deliver end-to-end analytics projects across Greater China—scoping, data preparation/ETL, analysis, insight synthesis, and storytelling.
- Lead ETL and analysis of large transactional datasets using the Hadoop ecosystem, Python/PySpark and SQL. automate repeatable workflows where feasible.
- Design and maintain dashboards/visualizations to enable self-serve decisioning (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy).
- Establish and apply measurement frameworks for marketing campaigns, product benefits and major events. translate results into clear recommendations.
- This role also reports into Greater China Business Planning & Operations (BPO) Head. Partner with BPO, Sales, Product, VCA, Marketing, Strategy and other business function teams to prioritize, deliver and land insights.
- Document code and methods. contribute to shared analytics assets and adopt regional Data Science standards for quality, reproducibility and governance.
- Routine data reporting including GOC and MOC reports.
Why this is important to Visa
As the payments consulting arm of Visa, VCA builds high-performing teams of data scientists and analysts to deliver best-in-class, data-driven strategies that help clients adapt to rapid changes in technology, finance, and commerce. This role strengthens our internal analytics capability for Greater China, shifting from ad-hoc requests to proactive, hypothesis-led projects that accelerate decision cycles, improve insight quality, and enable measurable business impact for Visa and its clients.
Projects you will be a part of:
- Integrated Measurement & Insights: Design and execute frameworks to track performance and measure impact across campaigns, product benefits, big events, and launches—translating results into actionable recommendations.
- Big Rocks Initiatives: Contribute to Visa’s strategic priorities by supporting data tracking, performance measurement, and trend forecasting for high-impact projects that shape the Greater China business agenda.
- Market & Account Deep Dives: Conduct in-depth analyses at both market and account levels, including portfolio optimization, opportunity and risk identification, and solution recommendations to drive growth.
- Trend Forecasting & Scenario Modeling: Build forward-looking models to anticipate market shifts, inform planning, and support proactive decision-making across stakeholders.
- Analytics Enablement: Develop dashboards and reusable assets that empower self-serve analytics and scale insights across the organization.
These projects will give you the opportunity to shape strategic priorities, influence market growth, and work closely with senior stakeholders across Visa.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.