Data & Insights Analyst
Visa · Austin, United States · 1d ago
About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
Company Description
Visa stands as a global leader in payments and technology, facilitating over 259 billion secure transactions annually across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network. We empower individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive, driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and get paid. Make a meaningful impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Global Sourcing
Visa’s Global Sourcing organization, a key part of our Global Finance function, oversees the comprehensive sourcing and procurement of goods and services. Our team collaborates with technology partners and business units to lead all strategic sourcing activities worldwide, ensuring the optimal selection of suppliers that deliver best-in-class value in price and quality while minimizing risk. We support the business with risk management, supplier negotiations & contracting, purchase order processes, and accounts payable to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate policies. Our efforts are crucial in delivering cost savings and streamlining the procurement of goods and services.
Team Overview
As part of Visa’s Global Sourcing function, the Center of Excellence (CoE) team serves as a foundational capability for the Sourcing function, and enables the function’s success through people, process, program and operational management best practices. The CoE will drive consistency, clarity, and strong execution — while maintaining flexibility to meet business and regional needs, and focuses on four core areas:
· Value & Strategic Sourcing Enablement
· Process & Systems Excellence
· Talent & Change Enablement
· Policy, Risk & Contract Governance
This role reports to the Director of Global Sourcing Data & Insights within COE.
The Global Sourcing Data & Insights team empowers the Global Sourcing organization with data, dashboards, and analytical tools that help measure performance, identify savings opportunities, uncover operational insights, inform strategic decisions, and drive continuous improvement.
The team is responsible for designing end-to-end data solutions, defining and analyzing business-critical KPIs, developing scalable data products and advanced reporting capabilities, and enabling self-service analytics across the sourcing organization. Through strong partnerships with business, finance, and technology teams, we help transform data into actionable insights that drive measurable business value..
Job Description Overview
As the Data & Insights Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in developing and managing analytical products and reporting that provide visibility into business performance across the Global Sourcing organization, while serving as a strategic thought partner to sourcing and finance leaders.
You will drive the design and execution of scalable analytics solutions, data products, and reporting capabilities that influence organizational direction and deliver measurable business value. You will own the development of data visualizations, dashboards, and analytical solutions, enabling category leaders to quickly digest information, identify opportunities for improvement, and make decisions. You will gather, extract, and transform data from various financial systems, then develop compelling and accurate dashboards for the global sourcing team.
In this role, you will partner cross-functionally with many organizations, including category leaders within the global sourcing team, the IT team that manages the enterprise application, and the Finance team that defines our financial data. As a member of the global team, your stakeholders and colleagues will be located across the globe in different time zones. Your expertise will be critical in fostering a data-driven culture, championing best practices in data governance, and elevating the quality and strategic use of data throughout the Global Sourcing organization.
Responsibilities
- Insights & Reporting
- Design and maintain reusable data products, semantic models, and analytical datasets that enable self-service reporting and analytics across the organization.
- Design, develop and deliver sophisticated dashboards, reports, and analytical models that monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide actionable insights and support strategic decision-making. Deliver reports and analyses that highlight trends, identify opportunities, and answer critical business questions.
- Maintain and enhance the existing dashboard suite to ensure data accuracy and completeness, address user questions, and improve the user interface experience.
- Prepare ad hoc reporting and analysis for specific initiatives, collaborating with category leads and analysts as needed.
- Identify opportunities to automate reporting, analysis, and business processes using modern analytics, AI, and workflow automation technologies.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
- Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to identify opportunities, solve business problems, and translate objectives into actionable analytics initiatives.
- Partner with IT and business stakeholders to define data requirements, ensure the availability and quality of source data, and develop scalable, reusable data products and datasets using sound data architecture principles to advance enterprise analytics capabilities.
- Drive adoption of analytics solutions by partnering with stakeholders, gathering feedback, conducting enablement sessions, and continuously improving user experience.
- Data Governance & Best Practices
- Champion best data practices across the organization by developing protocols and governance to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
- Proactively provide training to improve data consistency, awareness, and effective data usage across the organization.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM/Finance field required. Advanced degree (Master’s, MBA, or equivalent) in Data Analytics or a related discipline strongly preferred.
- Experience
- 4+ years of progressive experience in business analytics, with 6+ years preferred. Experience supporting operations, finance, supply chain, sourcing, or related functions is preferred.
- Demonstrated success in leading cross functional initiatives and driving process or technology adoption at scale.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and deliver multiple high impact projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Technical Skills
- Experience working with enterprise data warehouses, semantic models, star schemas, and curated analytics datasets. Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data models. Advanced proficiency in SQL and relational databases.
- Deep expertise in data visualization platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.
- Experience with Python is a plus. Experience with workflow automation tools such as Power Automate is a plus.
- Experience working with modern cloud data platforms such as Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or equivalent technologies is a plus.
- Experience leveraging GenAI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate analytics, automation, software development, and business productivity.
- Experience with financial datasets such as Ariba, expense, or General Ledger data. Understanding of general ledger account structure and cost center structure is highly desirable.
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new tools, technologies, and software platforms.
- Leadership & Communication
- Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to synthesize information, make concise recommendations, and influence senior leaders.
- Strategic thinker with a passion for leveraging data to drive impact and create value.
- Mindset & Approach
- Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and a passion for solving complex, ambiguous business problems through the effective use of data. Thrives in a fast-paced environment with a commitment to continuous learning, innovation, and improvement.
Information for US Applicants
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.