Senior Manager - Data Science at Visa

Short Description:

The Senior Manager, Data Science at Visa Mumbai leads consulting in analytics for India-South Asia clients. Responsibilities include driving data science initiatives, providing insights, and creating bespoke solutions. Requirements involve 8+ years' data analysis experience, proficiency in Hive, SQL, Python, and team leadership, with a focus on delivering impactful strategies in the payments industry.

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Position: Senior Manager, Data Science

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 thrive.

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 around the world, helping unlock financial access and shape the future of money movement.

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 Manager, Data Science, 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, including merchants. 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 and merchants using Visa data.
• Develop new data products and solutions for merchants that can be sold to them, both bespoke and scalable data solutions.
• Provide data insights to the INSA leadership team to help drive overall revenue, cross-border spending, and affluent spending.
• Collaborate with Visa's Asia Pacific Internal Analytics Team on workstreams and best practices.
• Storyboard insights from the dashboards and identify opportunities.
• 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.
• Understand client business requirements and perform end-to-end scoping for project deliverables.
• Assist in pitching solutions to various clients and resolve queries promptly.
• Explore opportunities for innovation using Visa data, client data, and non-traditional data to address clients' needs.
• Build and lead a highly motivated, engaging, and result-oriented team.

Why this is important to Visa:

As the payments consulting arm of Visa, VCA is strengthening 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 8 years of experience in data-based quantitative analysis.
• Proficiency with Hive, SQL, Python, Spark, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• 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.
• Display full accountability and the ability to manage end-to-end deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Previous experience in people leadership.
• Willingness to travel 20% or more.

What will also help:

• Exposure or prior work experience in the payments and/or banking industry.
• Experience in consulting space or matrix team structure.

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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