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 Description
Team Summary
The Visa Consulting and Analytics team provides analytics and consulting services to address client business problems leveraging market and internal data. In addition to building and automating interpretable and actionable predictive models, we assist clients in execution of models and evaluation of results.
The team interacts with stakeholders and team members across multiple functions, and thus strong intuition for developing analytic models that can solve specific business concerns is essential. The role further entails innovating new analytics services as we scale out our activities.
What a Senior Data Scientist does at Visa:
- Executing multiple medium to large analytic projects along with rest of the stakeholders in analytics & consulting teams
- Establishing best practices for change management, model automation and production rollout
- Familiarity with batch processing and process monitoring for model refresh
- Meeting with clients to explain model results, answer questions and propose further analysis
- Actively seek out opportunities to improve processes and technologies
- Collaborating with the internal teams to fully understand business requirements and desired business outcomes
- Defining detailed analytic scope and methodology, and creating an analytic plan
- Executing with appropriate statistical and machine learning techniques
- Providing thought leadership in both using data to solve business problems and arriving at innovative technology and statistical solutions
- Ensuring project delivery within timelines and budget requirements
- Work as independent contributor mostly and as a team lead if needed by providing guidance to other team members when required
Projects you will be a part of:
- Attrition and propensity modelling
- Recommendation systems and clustering algorithms
- Network analysis
- LTV and forecasting algorithms
Why this is important to Visa
VCA’s services allow our clients to boost their business performance through leveraging Visa’s expansive market insights and data. Our role in Japan in particular is pivotal in advancing the transition towards a more cashless payments landscape.
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
What do you need:
- Full professional fluency in Japanese and business level English
- Capability of working with external clients on variety of data analysis projects
- Experience working in a cross-functional and international environment
- 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
- 5 years of analytical experience in applying statistical solutions to business problems
- Proficiency in processing large data sets using Hive and related tools
- Fluency in multiple technologies and languages (Java/C/C++/Python/R/SQL), with experience in at least one compiled language
- Experience with a wide cross section of machine learning techniques : clustering, dimensionality reduction, variable selection, cross validation, neural networks, gradient boosting, linear & logistic regression
- Unix/Linux proficiency: command line tools, shell scripting
What will also help:
- Ability to quickly ideate novel mathematical models to address new problems
- Experience in cards/payments, retail banking, or retail merchant industries
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. As our products and technology have evolved with the world, Visa remains ubiquitous, reaching new customers in new and often invisible ways. We are at the center of this digital revolution with a network that connects people with over 80 million businesses all over the world. And Visa’s network is expanding, accelerating our growth. Our resilient business model, with its strong track record of success, will provide you with amazing opportunities to grow in your career, as well.
We are looking for people like YOU. Come join a people-centric company where you can invest in your career.
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Why Work With Us
Our employees are our company. Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace has been our key priority. With our purpose to “uplift everyone, everywhere” as our guide, we’re building an environment where diverse backgrounds and perspectives are celebrated and drive success inside our company and out in our communities.
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