Consulting Analyst, Visa Consulting

**Company Description**
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
**Job Description** Team Summary**

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's consulting division, serving Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact and tangible financial results.

The team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, fraud risk management and digital strategy.

**Consulting Analyst Role**

We are currently looking for a Consulting Analyst to support and deliver consulting engagements for Visa clients in Visa’s Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands region, enabling portfolio growth and improved profitability in clients’ payment card businesses.

Typically, this will involve the Analyst collaborating within a project team to gather and manage project inputs, analyse data to form conclusions and recommendations, develop compelling project reports and support the execution of recommendations.

Typical consulting engagements could include payment strategies, optimising portfolio profitability, product proposition design and launch, digital experiences design and implementation.

**What we are looking for**:
The full range of responsibilities are detailed below:
**Responsibilities**
- Prepare project materials including interview guides, data requirements, concepts, frameworks.
- Collecting and analysing inputs such as client information, data, processes, policies, competitive and environmental information.
- Conduct industry research, drawing on Visa and partner resources as well as colleagues to identify global best practices and distil insights relevant to the client problem at hand.
- Contribute to IP creation and standardised VCA offerings.
- Continuously build knowledge, surface new insights, and contribute to thought leadership pieces.
- Identify solutions and recommendations that address client objectives and result in performance improvement.
- Create compelling presentations to illustrate findings, ideas, recommendations within consulting engagements and more broadly.
- This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager._
**Qualifications**
Having already accumulated a variety of experience, you will be familiar with the payments industry and keen to work alongside an experienced team in gaining a deeper understanding. Specific skills and experience you will bring are:

- 3 years of experience in consulting, payments or financial services.
- Experience conducting requirements gathering, process analysis & improvement, solution evaluation, stakeholder communication, documentation & modeling and change management support.Team-based, cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to work with different teams such as client relationship, product, and innovation teams.
- Strong undergraduate academic accomplishment.
- Program/project management skills including the ability to contribute to multiple projects running in parallel.
- Analytical and research skills including desktop research and stakeholder interviews to synthesise materials on a variety of topics.
- Technical Skills including facility with the MS Office suite of products (primarily Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).

**Additional Information**
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.