Project Delivery and Implementation Analyst

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.

The Opportunity

In your role as Project Delivery and Implementation Analyst you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customers by:

• Working to reduce the time it takes for our projects to get delivered, including supporting customers with all aspects of their deliverables e.g., resourcing their team, securing hardware, infrastructure prerequisites, preparing data, putting together UAT testing plans, setting up users and permissions.

• Providing best practice and improvement recommendations for internal processes e.g., installation process, kick off and workshop structure.

• Focus on delivering successful projects in the shortest possible timeframe.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of a successful Risk Hub (ARIC) implementation project including helping our customers to prepare for each stage in the deployment lifecycle - from scoping to design, implementation and handover to post-live support. Take ownership of actions and follow through to completion, reporting accurately on project status.

• Proactively identify and implement ways to improve the project delivery, e.g., holding additional workshops, demos, training, Q&A etc. Identify and anticipate scope creep, timescale issues etc.

• Take the lead on internal and customer meetings where appropriate, handling questions confidently and supporting key project decisions.

• Lead on requirements and user story assessments, including providing workarounds to the customer and project team.

• Manage and govern customer environment and installation readiness processes, as well as user interface configuration and design. Keep up to speed on any changes to installation mechanisms or configuration across different versions of the Risk Hub (ARIC), advising the project team of any potential issues or concerns.

• Provide ongoing training and knowledge transfer for our customers (e.g., how projects are delivered, what they need to prepare, Risk Hub (ARIC) product features, roadmap, best practices etc.) through workshops and meetings.

• Provide input on unique features we can use to meet or mitigate against customer security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

• Advocate for the customer when appropriate and raise gaps in requirements or expectations to the Project Manager, Product and/or Engineering in the form of Change Requests, feature requests, defect tickets etc.

• Lead on customer systems integration and user acceptance testing phases, coordinating across the business to resolve and test defects while managing customer expectations.

• Provide alternative approaches to solving difficult problems and confidently manage challenging situations.

• Apply deep understanding of the industry, use cases and feature knowledge, proactively sharing information with team members to enable problem solving and remove project obstacles.

• Be heavily involved in leading internal process improvement initiatives, proactively contributing to and managing knowledge bases. Routinely implement treatments, share knowledge, and enable delivery teams to deliver more efficiently and effectively.

• Coach and develop team members, help with training and accreditation programs and recruitment.

• Support the creation and review of commercial estimates for Implementation Consulting professional services. Review commercial SoWs to identity potential risks or misunderstandings prior to signature.

• Provide onsite support during projects at customer site particularly for meetings, workshops, and testing phases.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications

2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications

3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

• Experience working alongside a commercial or technical team.
• Experience managing complex customer requirements and expectations, common challenges and mitigations.
• Strong academic background (Technology or scientific degree).
• Excellent written and verbal communication as well as good presentation skills. Proficient English language skills are required.
• Technical awareness of infrastructure and operating systems (Linux), cloud computing (Azure, AWS), data types (CSV, XML, JSON) and database technologies.
• API and/or Integration experience strongly preferred
• Strong ability to engage with different roles in the internal business such as sales, accounts, technical, SME’s.
• Effectively manage high and changeable workloads towards ensuring internal and external deadlines are met.

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 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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 83,900 to 148,500 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.