Business Analyst - Sales Support

Business Analyst - Sales Support (Job Number:131371)

Location- United States-CA-Foster City
Organization- Visa Inc.

Job- Sales Support

Description

Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.

Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations enable its bank customers to offer consumers choices: Pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. From the world's major cities to remote areas without banks, people are increasingly relying on digital currency along with mobile technology to use their money anytime, make purchases online, transfer funds and access basic financial services. All of which makes their lives easier and helps grow economies.

Behind the Visa brand are our talented employees who continuously raise the bar with innovative solutions and products that deliver the convenience and security of digital currency to more people all over the world.

Responsibilities:
-Be part of client facing sales team(s) with longer term career development into member of client facing sales team.
-Assist in development of sales strategies based upon the utilization of data analysis, research, etc.
-Prepare superior sales presentations
-Provide genuine foresight to help drive business development while continually monitoring and advising on research and data impacting Visa's business
-Assist in market/client research and opportunity analysis
-Participate in multi-faceted projects including industry strategy development and implementation
-Create internal and client facing sales tools to better understand performance to goals
-Drive process improvement through new analytic approaches and creative thinking
-Interface with other departments within Visa that are essential in supporting the team's efforts.
-Provide best practice research solutions and deliver clear and insightful summaries of business performance

Key relationships include:
- Americas sales teams
- Global Finance, Strategy
- Global Product
- Global Strategy

Key Initiatives:
- Assist meeting/exceeding sales goals
- Best practice development
- Data analytics to support profitable achievement of sales goals
- Thought leadership - develop Visa Acquirer POV to enhance business and product development
- Coordinated outreach to the client acceptance community to further Visa goals

Qualifications
-BA/BS in Business, Marketing, Finance
-MBA preferred
-3-5 years of experience performing advanced data analysis
-2-3 years of investment banking or consulting experience
-2-3 years of sales experience, preferred
-Excellent professional and academic track record
-Strong knowledge of Visa products and services preferred
-Superior analytical, project management and communication skills
-Superior presentation skills required
-Excellent written and verbal communications skills
-Superior MS PowerPoint, Excel and Word skills required
-Visual Basic, SQL, MS Access, and familiarity with Visa's internal MARS database helpful, but not required
-Ability to distill complex data and analysis into clear and actionable sales recommendations
-Demonstrated ability to package information in a clear, concise and compelling format that supports the sales strategy
-Demonstrated flexibility, high energy, desire to win and a collaborative approach to achieving goals.
-High level of integrity and honesty
-Highly motivated