Project Consulting Analyst

Visa; Wien; On-site; EUR 54,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Pension

Life Insurance

Annual Leave

Wellness Program

Job summary

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) offers a consulting role focused on delivering strategic solutions to multinational merchants and payment platforms in Central Europe. Analysts manage projects, collaborate across teams, and translate data into strategic recommendations for global clients.

Role requires digital fluency, use of AI tools, and the ability to work with complex datasets to drive activation, portfolio growth and risk control within client environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in payment industry or digital payments preferred.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking with attention to detail.
• Ability to decompose problems into distinct analysis pieces.
• Use and adapt templates for client scenarios, optimizing structure to convey messages.
• Ability to perform quantitative & qualitative analysis with guidance.
• Extract actionable insights and craft data-driven storylines.
• Strong team player with cross-level collaboration.
• Excellent multi-tasking and adaptability.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and presentation tools.
• Interest in learning analytics tools (SAS, R, Tableau).
• Interest in payments, financial institutions or consumer lending is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support a team of experienced professionals in delivering strategic consulting services to key Visa clients.
• Complete detailed analysis on client data and identify preliminary trends and themes with some guidance.
• Conduct market research and data analysis to identify insights in the payment industry.
• Support the development of client-specific presentations by adapting templates for unique client scenarios and needs.
• Support senior consultants in developing and delivering high-quality advisory solutions to clients, such as business strategy, product development & pricing, customer segmentation and customer experience improvement.

Skills

Payment industry

Strategic thinking

Analytical thinking

Problem deconstruction

Templates & messaging

Quantitative analysis

Data storytelling

Team collaboration

Multi-tasking

Spreadsheet tools

Advanced analytics tools

Tools

SAS

R

Tableau

Job description

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.

Pay Transparency

The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is €54,400 - €89,425 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, Pension, Life Insurance, Annual Leave, and Wellness Program.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Pension
• Life Insurance
• Annual Leave
• Wellness Program

Job Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. VCA's core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments.

Within VCA exists VCA Implementation Services (VIS), a hands-on execution partner, implementing, operating, and optimizing Visa products in client environments to accelerate activation, portfolio growth, risk control, and data-driven performance.

As a Consulting Project Analyst, you will work within a team as trusted advisors to large multinational merchants and payment platforms headquartered or operating in Central Europe. Your clients will include globally recognized brands and digital leaders (e.g. global payment technology platforms, e‑commerce platforms, global marketplaces, travel and mobility players).

Analysts are expected to manage projects, collaborate across teams, and translate complex data into strategic recommendations for clients.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

Specific Responsibilities include:

• Support a team of experienced professionals in delivering strategic consulting services to key Visa clients.
• Complete detailed analysis on client data and identify preliminary trends and themes in the data with some guidance.
• Conduct market research and data analysis to identify insights in the payment industry.
• Support the development of client-specific presentations by adapting templates for unique client scenarios and needs.
• Support senior consultants in developing and delivering high-quality advisory solutions to clients, such as business strategy, product development & pricing, customer segmentation and customer experience improvement.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

What we'd like from you -

• Payment industry, digital payments or payment processing experience preferred.
• Strategic and analytical thinking with a strong attention to detail that leverages multiple sources of information.
• Able to understand and start to disaggregate problem statement into distinct pieces of analysis.
• Use and adapt templates for unique client scenarios, optimizing structure to demonstrate + articulate key messages.
• Ability to execute quantitative & qualitative analysis with some guidance.
• Basic takeaways from the data + starting to craft storyline; ensure data quality + leverage data to support decision‑making in project management.
• Strong team player with a willingness to collaborate across levels and functional experts.
• Strong multi‑tasking skills and ability to adapt.
• Proficient and ideally a power‑user of spreadsheet and presentation tools.
• An interest in learning advanced analytics tools (SAS, R, Tableau, etc.).
• An interest in payments, financial institutions or consumer lending a plus.
• An affinity for payments technology, FinTech and digital.

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 welcome and encourages application from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.