About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

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, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. VCA's core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) team is looking for an individual to join our consulting practice and play a key role developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the Caribbean and Central America (CARCAM) Region. The potential candidate will proactively engage with Visa clients (including issuers, acquirers, merchants, processors, fintechs), by delivering and implementing projects and solutions with issuers, acquirers and merchants. This person will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both the preferred brand and unique business partner.

Potential engagements could include Digital consulting, customer acquisition, customer life cycle optimization, retention enhancement, benchmark analysis, profitability enhancement.

Specific Responsibilities Include

• Lead the gathering and analysis of information, support the formulation and testing of hypotheses to address client business problem
• 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
• Support the development of 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
• Successfully collaborate with peers in other functional areas (marketing, sales, risk, innovation) to execute projects and deliver value for clients
• Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for clients.
• Assist with the creation of business and financial models to drive project economic analysis.
• High intellectual capability evidenced by solid analytical skills. Strong Excel skills to update opportunity models, analyze transaction data and develop MIS reports
• Experience in financial or payment services gained ideally in consultancy practice, payment scheme, Acquirer or retail bank
• Good understanding of payments business and transaction flows and Visa Product Set and an understanding of Issuer portfolio management practices
• Self-starter who actively plans next steps with problem solving skills and curiosity
• Good presentation and communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to comprehend and convey complex business information
• Willingness to travel throughout the covered markets as needed and the ability to work across functions and markets.
  
  

Incumbents applying for the role should be self-motivated, highly analytic individuals who will deliver strategic thought leadership, problem diagnostics and high impact solutions to support client’s growth and performance. Candidates must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with clients and across the Visa organization.

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required from top tier school, ideally in quantitative field (e.g. engineering, mathematics, science) and/or business administration
• 5+ years of relevant experience in banks/financial services and/or management consulting firms, especially in payments business, including products & services, business systems and processes
• Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills
• Strong Excel skills to create business models, analyze transaction data and develop MIS reports.
• Experience developing economic and financial forecasting models is a plus.
• Great interpersonal skills - team player
• Technology mindset, curious, up-to-date with digital trends and applications
• Understand how to leverage GenAI tools to enhance productivity.
• Fluent verbal and written English/Spanish
  
  

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.