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Team Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. VCA's core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintech's, payment enablers and governments.

Within VCA exists the Risk Practice; the Risk Advisory team is responsible for delivering advisory services to Visa’s clients across Credit and Fraud Risk areas. 

We are seeking a motivated individual to join our consulting practice and contribute to high-impact projects for Visa’s clients in the region, supporting VCA Risk Consulting (Authorization, Fraud Management, and Operational Functions).

This position will be based in Mexico City and will focus on providing risk and operational consulting services. The ideal candidate will extract insights from large datasets (including client and VisaNet data), analyze trends, and generate actionable recommendations based on transactional information and qualitative assessments for Visa’s clients — including issuers, acquirers, and merchants.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support risk and operational consulting engagements through data-driven analysis and insight generation.
• Perform portfolio management diagnostics and authorization optimization analysis.
• Assess client risk policies, develop scoring models, and design implementation roadmaps.
• Optimize client servicing processes and support operational implementations or migrations.
• Conduct portfolio risk analysis and settlement assessments to enhance client performance.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD), ideally in quantitative field (e.g. engineering, mathematics, science and/or business administration)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or more than 4 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Experience in fraud risk and / or authorization management is a must.
• Experience in operational process for payment methods (settlement, conciliation, issuance, etc) is a plus.
• Experience with fraud detection solutions such as Visa Advanced Authorizations, Visa Risk Manager, Monitor Plus, Sentinel, Lynx, Falcon, among others, is a plus.
• Experience working Microsoft Tools.
• Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI
• Transform data/ analysis to a business language.
• Strong interest in the future of payments is a must.
• Excellent project management, organizational and presentational skills.
• Strong teamwork, relationship management and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multi-task various projects while meeting required deadlines.
• Results oriented.
• Bilingual Spanish/English (spoken/written).

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.