Analyst, Benchmarking

Visa•Atlanta, GA

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including both financial services and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, Visa Consulting and Analytics solves the most strategic problems for our clients. The US Consulting Practice within VCA provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s largest issuers in the United States. We apply deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities, drive growth and improve profitability. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to deliver solutions that address unique challenges in areas such as improving profitability, strategic growth, customer experience, digital payments and managing risk. The VCA team is looking for a Consulting Analyst to join our consulting benchmarking practice and play a role in developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the North America region. The potential candidate will be responsible for delivering and implementing projects and solutions with our clients. This person will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both, the preferred brand and unique business partner. Benchmarking engagements help Visa’s clients answer key questions that drive decision making, portfolio growth, and operational efficiency including: How does an issuer efficiently expand market share in credit and debit products? How should issuers use emerging technology to acquire the best customers? How does an issuer expand their card portfolio while mitigating credit risk? What performance gaps exist within a client’s card operations? How does an issuer’s profitability compare to a benchmark of peers?

Requirements

2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and/ or payment schemes, including products & services, business systems and processes, marketing initiatives and card acquiring experience
Skilled at using presentation, data visualization, and pyramid-principle storytelling to help clients make the best, fact-based decisions for their business
Excellent communication and project management skills
Technology mindset, curious, up-to-date with digital trends and applications

Nice To Haves

3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
Prior payment consulting experience at large management consulting firm or as a leader of large Issuer
Prior people leadership experience
Experience working with financial indicators to measure business performance

Responsibilities

Play a role on a team of experienced professionals and lead benchmarking efforts in delivering revenue-generating and cost-efficiency consulting services to key Visa clients
Develop 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 in their core business
Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources
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
Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for clients
Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approach that can be applied across VCA practice

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