Manager, Data Scientist

Company Description

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa’s consulting division, serving Visa’s clients (including card issuers, acquirers and merchants) and solving their strategic problems, focused on improving performance and profitability. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact projects with tangible financial results.

VCA Managed Services (VMS) is a critical component of our VCA strategy, providing our clients with the execution muscle they require to enhance performance and increase profitability.  VMS brings the ‘best of Visa’ to the clients, playing the role of orchestration layer between client teams and Visa subject matter experts (SMEs).  As clients confront increased challenges in their operating environment whilst also facing capacity constraints and capability gaps, VMS helps to drive implementation or delivery of their strategic initiatives, facilitating significant and tangible value creation.

Job Description

What a Data Scientist does at Visa:

• Leading, executing, and delivering data science projects for one of Visa’s key bank clients in Thailand.
• Hands-on development of detailed project scopes and methodologies, as well as designing, and implementing solutions using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Ensuring quality control and maintaining up-to-date documentation for all data science projects.
• Monitoring client portfolio growth data, identifying spending trends, and pinpointing growth opportunities using non-traditional data and new modeling techniques.
• Providing data support for card campaign design, including identification of customer spending tiers, set-up and maintenance of Test & Control groups for campaign targeting, and performance tracking of ongoing and tactical campaigns.
• Comparing card portfolio performance with the market to identify areas for improvement and opportunities for uplift, utilizing both Visa’s and client’s data.
• Regularly tracking and benchmarking the portfolio dashboard, focusing on market segments and channel opportunities, and providing data-driven insights to enhance performance of both ongoing and ad-hoc/tactical campaigns.
• Enhancing existing data science and analytical techniques by promoting new methodologies and best practices.
• Fostering thought leadership in the data science domain and building intellectual property through innovation.
• Managing communication with clients and stakeholders effectively.
• Advocating for data science within partner organizations, advising and coaching analytical teams, and sharing best practices and case studies.

Why this is important to Visa

VCA Managed Service (VMS) is scaling rapidly across the AP region providing clients a full cycle solution for the implementation of enterprise programs and portfolio strategies.  Managed Services acts as a true extension of Visa Clients’ team bringing together expertise, capabilities, resources, and scale to enhance performance and increase profitability.  Managed Services engagements cover a wide variety of client strategic imperatives, from driving profitable lifecycle programs, to implementation of new capabilities or Visa products, to building new digital customer journeys.  VMS not only drives significant partnership value and strengthens Visa’s relationships with our clients, but it also enables rapid implementation of key priorities, which drive incremental revenue back to both the client as well as Visa.

Qualifications

What you will need:

• A degree in a Quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Computer Science, Economics, or Engineering. A master’s or Ph.D. would be an advantage.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant work in performing data exploration and feature engineering.
• Proficiency in statistical techniques including Neural Networks, Gradient Boosting, Linear & Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Markov Chains, Support Vector Machines, Clustering, Principal Component Analysis, Factor analysis, etc.
• Proficiency in using query languages such as Python, and in Data Analysis and Management Tools such as Dbeaver, SQL, Power BI.
• Strong ability to interpret complex data into actionable insights to identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple concurrent analytics projects involving diverse cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible approach.
• Excellent presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Proficiency in storyboarding data storytelling, with strong skills in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Understanding of local market conditions and industry regulations.

What will also help:

• Proven experience in delivering growth for financial services products.
• Strong knowledge of the financial services ecosystem in Thailand.

Projects you will be a part of:

As a Data Scientist under VCA Managed Services at Visa, you will be embedded at the issuing bank client’s site in Thailand, leading and executing data science projects that drive significant value creation. You will play a critical role in developing innovative solutions, analyzing portfolio data for growth opportunities, and supporting card campaign design. Your contributions will directly support Visa clients in delivering high-impact projects, making this role both strategically influential and technically challenging within a collaborative and innovative environment.

As the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network – enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You’re an Individual. We’re the team for you. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.