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.

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Job Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the lead function within the broader Advisory Services arm of Visa, driving tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including financial institutions, merchants, governments and fintechs. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, marketing, operational improvement and macroeconomics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.  Our mission centers around improving the performance and profitability of our clients around the world.

The Global Strategy, Planning & Operations team within VCA is responsible for building up and maintaining the supporting infrastructure to drive the accelerated growth plan for the world’s well-known payments advisory organization.  This includes setting standards, defining go-to-market approaches, driving collaboration with other Visa business functions, creating global platforms and solutions, plus driving operational performance for the function.

The Manager, Global Strategy, Planning, and Operations role will support work streams related to the team’s strategic agenda and subsequent projects that have significant impact across the team. This individual will focus on both strategic and execution-oriented topics to support our business. The position requires the ability to apply strong analytical and critical thinking skills to solve business problems and support management discussions.

This is an individual contributor position reporting to a Director of VCA Global Strategic Initiatives.

Contribute to the successful development of strategic initiatives, including:Data analysis to identify key areas of opportunity.Help automate and scale existing global processes.Building storylines to help link insights to recommendations.Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for stakeholders.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 challengesConduct thorough, data-driven quantitative analysis using multiple sources to ensure financial integrity and strategic alignment of recommendationsFocus on operations and ensuring the global SP&O team is effective in providing solutions and value-adding resources to all regionsSupport business development and operational efforts related to Global client accounts

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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

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 PhDBachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Software Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience in a computer-related occupation. Alternatively, Master’s degree in Business Administration, Software Engineering, or related field and 2 years of experience in a computer-related occupation.Relevant experience at large management consulting firm or US Financial InstitutionPayments/Financial Services experienceStrong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigorProficient and ideally a power-user of spreadsheet and presentation toolsAble to consolidate and gather insights from large and diverse data setsVisual design and clear storytelling skillsStrong team player with a willingness to learn and ability to adapt

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 applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 112,500 to 172,600 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.