Job Description

At Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) we are currently looking for a Masters intern to support the team on strategic consulting engagements in our office located in Miami, FL to support the Latin-American region. The ideal candidate is a highly analytical individual with previous business experience.

VCA is a global team of industry experts in strategy, marketing, operations, risk and fraud consulting, with decades of experience in the payments industry.

Typical projects may include:

• How does a financial institution increase market share in consumer credit cards?
• How should a credit card issuer use emerging technology to acquire the best customers?
• How does a financial institution grow their credit card portfolio while mitigating credit risk?
• How does a financial institution or merchant optimize their product offering?

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Play an integral role on a team of experienced professionals in delivering strategic consulting services to key Visa clients
• Complete consulting engagements, including participating in interviews, analyzing client’s data, summarizing key findings, and providing recommendations
• Conduct industry research and identify internal and external data resources to create custom analytics
• Complete detailed analysis on client data and identify preliminary trends and insights in the data
• Develop financial models as well as client-specific presentations, which address executive needs. Also, deliver presentations to clients and internal Visa partners
• Identify potential services as outsourcing of our customer’s internal business processes.

Qualifications

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• PURSUING A MASTERS, GRADUATING DECEMBER 2020 OR LATER
• MINIMUM GPA OF 3.0 OUT OF 4.0 (OR EQUIVALENT SCALE)

 PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree
• Excellent client-facing communication, story-telling and presentation skills with ability to articulate findings in action-driven recommendations
• Exceptional analytical skills, with the ability to process and summarize large amounts of data into key strategic insights
• Ability to form hypotheses on client issue root causes and validate thinking quickly using data
• Knowledge of financial services, merchants or acquirers ideal. Previous consulting experience a plus
• Strong team player with a willingness to collaborate across levels and functional experts
• Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to adapt
• Strong intellectual curiosity to understand the root cause of issues and how to drive value for clients
• Proficient and ideally a power-user of spreadsheet, data analytics/visualization packages, and presentation tools
• An interest in payments technology and its future, digital trends and user experience. Financial institutions or consumer lending a plus
• Bilingual – Spanish or Portuguese

Additional Information

Work Hours:

•  Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours.

Physical Requirements

• This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers and reach with hands and arms.

EEOC

• Visa will consider for employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.