Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our 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 join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our sophisticated global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a distributed team of progressives, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing important work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

Organization Summary

The Technology Planning and Business Operations organization provides key business strategic direction and integration across the Technology organization. This includes driving investment planning & budgeting, portfolio management (projects, initiatives, etc.), workforce planning activities, critical initiative program management, and communications activities. The team is passionate about improving efficiencies, visibility, consistency and collaboration within the Technology organization and other key cross-functional collaborators.

Essential Functions

The Business Analyst will be primarily responsible for supporting Technology portfolio management activities, including handling program investment process as well as generating reports/dashboards with standard cadence and all required data analysis. This position interacts with many cross-functional collaborators, including various Technology teams, Finance, and many business functional leads. This position will report to the Senior Director and will interact with senior leadership. Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure high-quality review of program investment documents for executive funding approvals to enable accuracy and drive effective decision-making
• Process day-to-day requests from collaborators including program funding changes and address any related inquires, with a continuous improvement attitude to streamline processes
• Complete system/tool updates to ensure data integrity and alignment with program / project changes
• Frequent review of documentations (i.e. project charter / agile execution planning documents, etc.) to confirm alignment with project / agile management methodologies and address related daily inquiries from collaborators
• Support recurring delivery of various reports, dashboards and analysis to uphold governance of the project / agile management methodologies, including crafting summaries and overviews of investments, and reviewing red/yellow/green status commentary from collaborators to ensure content quality for executive-level reporting

Extract, combine and transform raw data from various source systems to present relevant insights for management decisions.

Basic Qualifications

• 2 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance or a related field or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
• Proficient with one or more reporting systems such as SQL, Excel, MS Access and Analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, etc. to develop dashboards from multiple source systems such as Jira Align, Clarity, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Experience in the Payments and/or Technology industry, with familiarity in product development methodology (Waterfall or Agile)

• Validated experience in an operational role (with recurring tasks cadence - daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually), with a focus on governance / compliance
• 2+ years of experience in business analytics, executive reporting, and data visualization with insightful commentary.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with an attention to detail.
• Demonstrate ability to optimally communicate technical / business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels.
• Ability to work independently with strong time management with sense of urgency and ability to complete multiple concurrent deliverables
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.
• PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or similar certification preferred.

Basic Qualifications

• 2 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance or a related field or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
• Proficient with one or more reporting systems such as SQL, Excel, MS Access and Analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, etc. to develop dashboards from multiple source systems such as Jira Align, Clarity, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Experience in the Payments and/or Technology industry, with familiarity in product development methodology (Waterfall or Agile)

• Validated experience in an operational role (with recurring tasks cadence - daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually), with a focus on governance / compliance
• 2+ years of experience in business analytics, executive reporting, and data visualization with insightful commentary.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with an attention to detail.
• Demonstrate ability to optimally communicate technical / business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels.
• Ability to work independently with strong time management with sense of urgency and ability to complete multiple concurrent deliverables
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.
• PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or similar certification preferred.

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/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.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.