Team Description
Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, digital marketing and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.
The Intelligence & Data Solutions (IDS) team at VCA consists of data scientists, analysts, and engineers who provide analytics solutions. Their goal is to leverage VisaNet, one of the largest datasets globally, to help clients enhance their performance and increase profitability.
The ideal candidates are problem solvers, equipped with strong analytical & quantitative skills suited to address key strategic needs for Visa’s clients including issuers, acquirers and merchants.
Adept at creative and critical thinking, they are able to deconstruct problems and transform insights into large scale, state-of-the-art solutions. Candidates must be quick learners with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Develop and grow exceptional internal client relationships
- Develop and deploy analytical models and techniques within the organization and VCA’s clients
including issuers, acquirers and merchants - Work with large volumes of data extract and manipulate large datasets using standard tools such as Hadoop Ecosystem, PySpark, SAS, Presto, SQL, etc.
- Hands-on skills in cleaning, manipulating, analyzing, visualizing large data sets.
- Data Cleansing/Wrangling – This involve parsing and aggregating messy, incomplete, and unstructured data sources to produce data sets that can be used in analytics/predictive modeling.
- Develop and validate advance data mining tools, algorithms, and other capabilities to solve business problem.
- Utilize Visa's data and analytic capabilities, technology, and industry expertise to develop, standardized and implement the consulting analytical solutions.
- Identify relevant market trends based on a deep analysis of payment industry Information. Interacting with several internal and external stakeholders for the strategic definition of analysis and initiatives.
- Continuously develop and present innovative ideas in order to improve current business practices within Visa.
- Perform client-specific analysis on portfolio data including proprietary information, such as customer demographics, activity, spend levels and financial information.
- Communicate complex concepts and the results of the analyses in a clear and effective
manner. - Support transfer technical knowledge to facilitate implementation of the business
solution provided. - Document all projects developed and write other documentation as needed. Identify and
share best practices for key topics.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.