Job Description

The Visa Business Solutions Product team is looking for a highly motivated Business Analyst to shape and mold the strategy of our emerging commercial products and verticals. The primary responsibility is to build products and solutions that deliver delightful experiences with a substantial value propositions across the entire B2B payments ecosystem i.e., merchants, issuers, acquirers and technology platforms.

Specifically, The Large Mid-Market(LMM) team within VBS owns a suite of product verticals and card capabilities that give our commercial customers enhanced security, control and enriched data for their business & travel payments.

You will be joining a high-performing, global team that is accelerating the growth of new LMM business lines and products.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support short and long-term strategic plans for clients in new and emerging market verticals. Ensure that business plans adhere to Visa mission statement of increasing clients’ profitability, strengthening the partnership within them, and also being in agreement with Visa Inc. overall strategy
• Support a multi-year strategy around the expansion of B2B payments globally and do so in alignment with the regional product and country managers. 
• Identify new business opportunities for Visa solutions across different customer segments globally. 
• Ability to identify key strategic issues and to generate and deliver creative and innovative solutions to problems and opportunities
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of all Visa products and services
• Develop individual business case justification for investment decisions and propose to Global & Regional Management for approval
• View new business opportunities, analyzing client’s profiles, products’ profile as well as their strategic moments, with the purpose of offering adequate products to the needs of the partners and increasing their business volume with Visa
• Work with client teams on ways to maximize profitability by offering advice on the development of target markets, product development, advertising, marketing and product mix
• Increase the participation of VISA in the way of payment business through the expansion into new markets, prospects and other companies
• Monitor the competitors’ activities, fusions, acquisitions
• Maintain close contact with all Visa’s areas in order to search for solutions for the most critical problems, as well as to follow best practices that could be offered and applied to the clients and the market

Qualifications

BASCI QUALIFICATIONS 

·         5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

·         6+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 +years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA,  JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD

·         Experience in independently leading complex problem solving discussions with Issuers, FinTech's, Acquirers, and Processors.

·         Experience with B2B payments is highly desired.

·         The role requires strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with others in cross-functional teams to implement and assess the operational impact of changes to processes/procedures.

·         Ability to lead product development and documentation assignments independently.

·         Ability to contribute new ideas and find solutions to business challenges for emerging business models while delivering top-quality customer service.

·         Demonstrated power user in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Word) and experience with MS Office Access.

·         Able to work independently

Additional Information

WORK HOURS

Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

This position, in future, may 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.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 25% of the time

LOCATION(S): San Francisco (preference) or Austin, Highlands Ranch or other Visa offices

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.

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