Visa Graduate Program - Data Science, Visa Consulting & Analytics, Australia

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Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description
The Visa Graduate Program supports Visa’s mission to build a strong Associate level pipeline of talent with cross-functional knowledge and experience. In addition to meaningful rotations, Associates are provided training & development, mentoring, networking, and leadership exposure throughout the 12-month program. Leveraging on Visa’s global connectivity, our Associates will also have the opportunity to broaden their perspectives and insights through engaging with global stakeholders, both internally within the organisation and externally with partners. With over 85 offices worldwide, Associates can look forward to building a long term, global career at Visa.
The Visa Graduate Program - Data Science is a 12-month program with two six-month rotations through our two key data science teams in Visa Consulting & Analytics: Data Science Issuer Advisory and Data Services. Please note that this program is open to candidates based in Sydney only.

Responsibilities:

• Complete detailed analysis on client data and identify preliminary trends and themes in the data
• Assist the consulting team in developing & testing hypotheses regarding key issues highlighted by clients
• Summarise insights derived from data analysis into reports / PowerPoint packs that can be easily interpretable by clients
• Present results from data science analyses to a diversity of internal / external stakeholders (with varying degrees of seniority & technical aptitude)
• Liaise with colleagues from other business functions (e.g. product, marketing etc.) to deliver exceptional client outcome

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to solution development under the supervision of data science leads in the team
• Propose new ideas and challenge existing assumptions to provide thought diversity and pioneer innovation
• Conduct quality assurance checks on data output before client distribution
• Summarise insights from transaction data using a suitable coding language (SQL / Python / R)
• Understand existing methodologies and identify areas for improvement to enhance (a) code hygiene, (b) accuracy of results, and (c) program efficiency
• Package existing data pipelines into automated workflows using Apache Airflow
• Implement best-practice collaboration conventions by sharing code through BitBucket / GitHub
• Construct documentation manuals for data science methodologies to simplify future handover & onboarding processes
• Collaborate effectively within an agile team environment, working closely with cross-functional team members to understand project requirements and deliver high-quality solution