The Global Business Optimization team has a simple mission: we turn massive amounts of data into actionable insights that drive business value.  Our analytic consultants and data analysts work with Visa’s clients and staff to improve portfolio performance, program profitability and cardholder experiences.  By coupling in-depth analysis of cardholder behavior with Visa’s world-class products, digital offerings and marketing capabilities, we ensure our clients’ programs operate at their peak potential and that cardholders have seamless commerce experiences in both the physical and digital world. This Sr. Consultant will help to deliver this vision to our issuing, acquiring and merchant partners for commercial work done in partnership with the NA Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) team. In this role, you will use strong analytical and presentation skills, contextual business sense and a creative flair to solve real world business challenges for Visa’s clients.  The Sr. Consultant must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with clients and across the Visa organization.Experience utilizing big data is critical to the success of the role as is the ability to deliver effective data visualization and storytelling.  Innovation and a willingness to challenge traditional paradigms are also paramount to the success of the role.Responsibilities:Serve as Visa’s expert on payment success across the transaction lifecycle and provide recommendations that influence products and initiativesCollaborate with VCA practice subject matter experts, data scientists, Risk and Disputes teams to develop and refine highly relevant new data solutionsDevelop presentations of complex data and content for clients in an accurate, understandable and engaging mannerLead and deliver advisory engagements to clients through exceptional problem solving, data analysis, strategic recommendations and executive storytellingPresent analytic deliverables to external Visa clients, colleagues in the analytics team, and other internal stakeholders with varying degrees of analytical and technical expertise.Get to an understanding of root problems, define analytical objectives, and formalize data requirements for various types of analyses.Build analytical tools that provide a holistic view of client performance, enabling robust and comprehensive dialogues with clients on performance, opportunities and solutionsCombine and analyze disparate data sources and derive insights in a Big Data environment, independently perform analysis to render robust, thoughtful resultsCompare client performance against industry best practices with a shrewd eye toward identifying performance and/or profitability improvement opportunityDeliver on the NA Global Business Optimization OKRsThis is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.