Senior Associate, Strategy

Company Description Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa. Job DescriptionWhat we expect of you day-to-day

• Lead or support workstreams on projects related to Visa’s overarching strategy in Europe and its sub-regions
• Work with cross-functional and regional management teams on strategic projects, to structure and solve business problems to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues
• Develop rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations. Ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations
• Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise and impactful way
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, with ability to participate in complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at all levels
• Commitment to continuous training and support the Strategy Team’s practice management (e.g. data sources, attending industry conferences, planning team offsites and events, etc.)

Key competencies

• Apply problem solving approaches to assigned tasks with limited supervision
• Independently build strong, visually compelling and concise slides and memos. Communicate complex data and analyses in a visually compelling manner
• Lead meetings / informational interviews and build consensus with cross-functional stakeholders with project team backup. Ask thought provoking questions
• Strong excel skills, can execute complex analyses. Validates / sense-checks consistently
• Provide input on project structure, proactively raise flags, support cross-functional coordination
• Build coaching skills through informal mentorship (e.g. new hire buddy) and project work with junior team members

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs. Qualifications

• Requires 2-4 years total experience including time spent in a strategy consulting or corporate strategy role
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field – advance degree preferred
• Payments experience a plus, not required
• Knowledge of a major European language a plus

Additional Information 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.