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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The Analyst will be a member of Visa’s CEMEA Corporate Strategy team.  The team plays a key role in shaping Visa’s long-term strategy and solving enterprise-level questions and challenges, often partnering with executives and business leaders across Visa’s organization.  Recent initiatives have addressed such topics as go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and partnership/acquisition opportunities – many of which have been internationally focused.  The team is also responsible for developing competitive intelligence and thought leadership on emerging trends in payments and technology.  The position will be based at Visa’s CEMEA headquarters in Dubai.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Breakdown complex business problems, define a structured approach to addressing the component parts, formulate hypotheses and supporting project worksteps
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis bringing a fresh and differentiated perspective, and supporting proposed recommendations
• Drive thought leadership with creative, novel, disruptive, but highly practical and implementable solutions to the challenges faced by business owners
• Develop clear, simple and impactful executive level communications, with a strong ability to persuade and influence senior decision makers
• Demonstrate outstanding people skills including supporting colleagues and acting as a magnet for future top talent to the strategy team

• Bachelor's degree from top-tier institution or similar academic experience required
• 1-2+ years of relevant industry or management consulting experience
• Payments exposure is nice to have
• Arabic speaker would be beneficial