Company Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.
Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA), the consulting arm of Visa, is a global team of industry experts in strategy, marketing, operations, risk and economics consulting, with decades of experience in the payments industry.
Our VCA teams offers:
Consulting services customized to the needs of Visa client's business objectives and strategy
Business and economic insights and perspectives that impact business and investment decisions
Self:service digital solutions Visa clients can leverage to improve performance in product, marketing and operations
Proven data:driven marketing strategies to increase clients' ROI
Job and Responsibilities
VCA team is looking for an individual to join our consulting practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa's clients in South Cone Countries (Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay). This potential candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing statistical modeling to address
key strategic needs for Visa's clients including issuers, acquirers and merchants.
Qualifications
Responsibilities
Develop and deploy analytical models and techniques within the organization and VCA's clients
including issuers, acquirers and merchants
Utilize Visas data and analytic capabilities, technology, and industry expertise to develop, standardized and implement the consulting solutions.
Identify relevant market trends by country, 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.
Qualifications
BA/BS required; Masters degree preferred (eg: Statistics,
Computer Science, Engineering or other related fields).
8+ years of overall experience with a preferred minimum of 5 in a banking and/or retailer
Strong interest in the future of payments a must.
Experience in retail banking, payments, financial services, and/or technology industries a
plus
Hands:on experience in advanced analytics and statistical modeling including Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Clustering methods ( K:means), Classification methods (Decision Trees/Chaid), among others.
Expert level knowledge of SAS (Base SAS, SAS Macro programming, SAS E. Miner, SAS E. Guide)
Work with large volumes of data (Big Data); extract, clean and manipulate large datasets using standard tools such as Hadoop Ecosystem, Hive, Apache Spark, SAS, through scripting in Python, SQL, etc.
Knowledge of visualization tools such as Tableau
Transform data/ analysis to a business language
Continuously develop and present innovative ideas based on data driven approach in order to improve current business practices within Visa
Excellent project management, organizational and presentational skills.
Strong teamwork, relationship management and interpersonal skills.
Ability to multi:task various projects while meeting required deadlines.
Results oriented
Bilingual Spanish/English (spoken/written)
Additional Information
Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind : making sure that Visa is the best way to pay an
