Senior Data Scientist at Visa

Short Description:

The Senior Data Scientist role at Visa Mumbai involves leading data-driven solutions for clients in India-South Asia, utilizing Tableau for strategic dashboards, delivering insights, and driving innovation. Requires 5+ years' data analysis experience, expertise in multiple tools including Tableau, SQL, Python, and strong communication skills. The position aims to revolutionize the payments industry by providing impactful analytics and fostering client growth through innovative data strategies.

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Position: Senior Data Scientist

Location: Mumbai

Job Type: Full-time

Company Description:

Visa is a global leader in digital payments, facilitating over 215 billion payment transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. The company's mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to prosper.

When you join Visa, you become part of a culture of purpose and belonging, where your growth is a top priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do has a meaningful impact. Visa believes in inclusive economies that uplift everyone, everywhere, and your work will directly influence billions of people globally, helping unlock financial access and shape the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Team Summary:

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is Visa's consulting division, committed to serving clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants, by addressing their strategic challenges related to performance and profitability. VCA leverages expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operations, and macroeconomics to drive high-impact, tangible financial results.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be part of the VCA Data Science geographic team cluster for India and South Asia (INSA) markets. Your role involves supporting data science initiatives with Visa's clients. The team offers an array of consulting services and data-driven solutions addressing unique challenges in areas like strategic growth, profitability, risk management, digital strategy, and portfolio management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support and deliver data science engagements for India and South Asia clients using multiple data sources.
• Develop strategic benchmarking dashboards in Tableau for top banks and FinTech companies in India and South Asia to assist in portfolio management and optimization.
• Storyboard insights from the dashboards and identify market gaps.
• Effectively communicate findings, recommendations, and data-driven insights to clients and stakeholders.
• Ensure consistency, standards, and quality control of deliverables with up-to-date coding and project documentation.
• Optimize and automate benchmarking dashboards through collaboration with Hub teams, Data engineering teams, and IT.
• Manage time efficiently across multiple reports/projects, ensuring timely delivery to clients while maintaining accuracy.
• Understand client business requirements and perform end-to-end scoping for project deliverables.
• Assist in pitching benchmarking dashboards to various clients and resolve queries promptly.
• Explore opportunities for innovation using Visa data, client data, and non-traditional data to address clients' needs.

Why this is important to Visa:

As the payments consulting arm of Visa, VCA is building a team of highly specialized experts to provide top-tier payment expertise and data-driven strategies to clients. The team is focused on helping major organizations adapt and evolve in response to changes in technology, finance, and commerce, offering cutting-edge, creative, and advanced analytic solutions. The team's purpose is to help Visa's clients grow their business and solve problems through data-driven consulting services.

Qualifications:

What you will need:

• A Bachelor's degree (a Master's degree would be advantageous) in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in data-based quantitative analysis.
• Proficiency in Tableau, Hive, SQL, Python, Spark, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Hands-on experience and proficiency in independently designing and building dashboards using Tableau.
• Excellent analytical skills, with a demonstrated ability to solve business problems with data.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently.
• A high degree of accountability and the ability to manage end-to-end deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Willingness to travel 20% or more.

What will also help:

• Exposure or prior work experience in the payments and/or banking industry.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint.

Additional Information:

Visa is an Equal Opportunity 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 qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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