NA Emerging Products Analyst

About the position

The Product Analyst will support work streams on projects related to Visa Inc.'s products, interchange, pricing strategy and/or broader corporate initiatives, including collaborating with business lines across functional areas. Specific projects will vary greatly in sponsor, business or strategic focus, depth, and stakeholder served, ranging from broad coordination efforts across multiple functional areas to focused special assignments for senior management that are of particular high strategic importance to Visa Inc. The position requires the ability to apply strong analytical and critical thinking skills to solve business problems, and quickly arrive at recommendations that drive corporate priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support elements of NA product and pricing strategy development and refinement, including opportunity identification, strategic analysis, reporting, and sizing of impacts of implementation
• Support modeling, dashboard creation, identification of key metrics and forecasting, including but not limited to business case and stakeholder impact assessment development around all proposed new products, fees/services and/or rate modifications
• Identify, prioritize, and execute the activities required to support Visa's corporate strategies, priorities, and special initiative projects
• Work within cross-functional and cross-regional project teams to solve corporate business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues
• Use Visa´s transactional databases to assess a broad set of quantitative and qualitative issues, and synthesize this information from large datasets into key points for Divisional management
• Communicate and generate support for recommendations among business leaders across the organization
• Educate internal stakeholders on Visa´s product and pricing strategy

Requirements

• Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position.
• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
• 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)
• BA / BS (MBA / MS Preferred)
• 1 - 3 years of experience in financial services, payments processing, and/or strategy consulting
• Work experience in financial and strategic analysis is preferred
• Experience in managing competing demands of multiple projects at the same time, often with overlapping sets of stakeholders and individual timelines
• Ability to work independently, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to build rigorous, fact-bases that support recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional management
• Ability to handle multiple project work streams. Must be able to develop content independently, often under significant time constraints
• Should be able to prioritize work flow with limited supervision
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Understanding of macros, Tableau, and PowerBI
• Proficient in SQL
• Eagerness to work intensively in joint teams with personnel of all levels to accomplish project objectives
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages in written and verbal communications
• Strong interpersonal to build credibility as a ‘peer’ with Global Functions
• Strategic thinker with ability to evaluate ideas and proposals within broader company objectives
• Self-starter attitude - the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the information needed for the project at hand
• Openness to an environment of active developmental feedback and coaching from peers and managers

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program