Sr. Data & Insights Consultant, Data & Insights at Visa

The Global Business Optimization team has a simple mission: we turn massive amounts of data into actionable insights that drive business value.  Our analytic consultants and data analysts work with Visas clients and staff to improve portfolio performance program profitability and cardholder experiences.  By coupling in-depth analysis of cardholder behavior with Visas world-class products digital offerings and marketing capabilities we ensure our clients programs operate at their peak potential and that cardholders have seamless commerce experiences in both the physical and digital world. This Sr. Consultant will help to deliver this vision to our issuing acquiring and merchant partners for commercial work done in partnership with the NA Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) this role you will use strong analytical and presentation skills contextual business sense and a creative flair to solve real world business challenges for Visas clients.  The Sr. Consultant must be able to develop enduring strategic relationships with clients and across the Visa organization.Experience utilizing big data is critical to the success of the role as is the ability to deliver effective data visualization and storytelling.  Innovation and a willingness to challenge traditional paradigms are also paramount to the success of the role.Responsibilities:Serve as Visas expert on payment success across the transaction lifecycle and provide recommendations that influence products and initiativesCollaborate with VCA practice subject matter experts data scientists Risk and Disputes teams to develop and refine highly relevant new data solutionsDevelop presentations of complex data and content for clients in an accurate understandable and engaging mannerLead and deliver advisory engagements to clients through exceptional problem solving data analysis strategic recommendations and executive storytellingPresent analytic deliverables to external Visa clients colleagues in the analytics team and other internal stakeholders with varying degrees of analytical and technical expertise.Get to an understanding of root problems define analytical objectives and formalize data requirements for various types of analyses.Build analytical tools that provide a holistic view of client performance enabling robust and comprehensive dialogues with clients on performance opportunities and solutionsCombine and analyze disparate data sources and derive insights in a Big Data environment independently perform analysis to render robust thoughtful resultsCompare client performance against industry best practices with a shrewd eye toward identifying performance and/or profitability improvement opportunityDeliver on the NA Global Business Optimization OKRsThis is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.Qualifications : Basic Qualifications:8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhDPreferred Qualifications:9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhDPayments industry experience required (i.e. acquiring issuing processing operations systems etc.)High level of proficiency manipulating data from a variety of sources Big data skills (Hadoop Hive Spark) and/or SQL skills requiredStrong financial acumen and analytical skillsStrong commercial acumen and solid business judgementStrong teamwork and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with inter-disciplinary groupsStrong verbal written and interpersonal skills are requiredMust be proficient in all MS Office applications with advanced Excel spreadsheet skillsExperience visualizing data with tools like Tableau advanced Tableau skills.Visa experience or knowledge of the payments industryAdditional 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 127300.00 to 184950.00 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 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.Remote Work : NoEmployment Type : Full-time Key Skills Apache Hive,S3,Hadoop,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Apache Pig,NoSQL,Big Data,Data Warehouse,Kafka,Scala Department / Functional Area: Client Services Experience: years Vacancy: 1