Data Science Analyst

Job Description

What's it all about?

As Data Scientist, you are a key member of our growing Data Science function in the advisory service Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) and are part of Visa’s global Data Science community. In this role, you collaborate with management consultants, account executives, business development and other internal functions to support our clients with their most pressing issues and biggest opportunities. Your innovative and scalable solutions help drive our clients’ and Visa’s business performance as well as enhance payment experiences of millions of customers across the region.

What we expect day to day:

Are you an adept problem solver who applies both innovation and logic to solve complex problems? Would you like to leverage one of the largest payment behavioral data sets in the world to uplift everyone, everywhere? If so, this is what we are looking for you to do with us:

• Designing and delivering powerful business-centric insights from data through storyboarding, analytics, visualization and/or ML with the support from Data Science project leads.
• Collaborating with VCA consultants and key clients (e.g. issuing banks, acquiring banks, FinTechs, merchants). Understanding client challenges around payment and customer behaviour. Helping to solve them with data and insights.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

What we’re after…



We are after highly motivated and curious individuals with strong technical, analytical and consultative skills.

•Team oriented, collaborative, agile working style

•Experience in the application of a range of analytics solutions to business problems

•Hands-on experience with Hadoop, SQL or Spark, Tableau or Power BI, Python or R

•Ability to communicate with impact to other data scientists as well as non-technical stakeholders

•Full working proficiency in English



What we'd love...

•Experience working in the payments industry (bank, credit reference agencies, Fintech, merchants) or management-consulting firm

•Experience of having worked in a consulting-like environment and client-facing project roles

•Experience in the application of predictive modelling and machine learning technique to business problems

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.