Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Responsibilities:
The Senior Analyst, Strategy will support work streams on projects related to Visa Inc.’s strategy and/or broader corporate initiatives, including collaborating with business lines across Regional and Functional areas. Specific projects will vary greatly in sponsor, business or strategic focus, depth, and stakeholder served, ranging from broad coordination efforts across multiple regions and/or 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. The Senior Analyst will report to the Vice President, Strategy, and will be based at Visa's offices in San Francisco, California. 

Specific responsibilities include:
•    Identify, prioritize, and execute the activities required to support Visa’s corporate strategies, priorities, and special initiative projects.
•    Structure and build quantitative and qualitative analyses and develop business frameworks linked to our initiatives
•    Drive the analysis of the financial impact of new opportunities utilizing client and market data, including evaluating pricing opportunities on a global basis
•    Develop, structure and drive incentives for routing and acceptance agreements with US merchants and acquirers in partnership with sales team
•    Identify implications of data and analysis with the team, articulate recommendations, put action plans in place and drive progress
•    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.
•    Create data presentations & dashboards to support data driven decision making
•    Collaboratively work across functions and levels in the company.
•    Build and maintain business landscape knowledge, to provide solid foundational context for critical strategic projects.
•    Participate in continuous training with strategy teams.

•    2 to 4+ years of experience at a top-tier strategy consulting firm McKinsey, BCG, Bain or at the Corporate Strategy practices of LEK, Deloitte Consulting, PwC, KPMG, Accenture, EY, Booz Allen.
•    Exceptional analytics and problem solving skills and ability to prioritize issues and analysis.
•    Strategic thinker with ability to evaluate ideas and proposals within broader company objectives
•    Ability to work independently, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to build rigorous, fact-bases that support recommendations to senior management or regional management.
•    Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives and team members alike.
•    Ability to communicate effectively and confidently, and work well in cross-functional teams
•    Self-starter attitude - the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the information needed for the project at hand.
•    Advanced user of excel and power point.
•    Openness to an environment of active developmental feedback and coaching from peers and managers

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.