What is Visa?

WE ARE NOT A BANK, WE ARE NOT A CREDIT CARD COMPANY!!

Visa is 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.

The Visa Leadership Accelerator (VLA) is an 18-month program with three - six month rotations through Visa’s functions. The VLA program supports Visa’s mission to build a strong entry level pipeline of talent with cross-functional knowledge and experience. Associates rotate through three functions of the business, these include: Product, Business Development, and Marketing. In addition to meaningful rotations, Associates are given training & development, mentoring, networking and leadership exposure.

Rotational Assignments include:

Product:

Visa’s Product Team is responsible for all aspects of the regional product strategy, solutions development and delivery to clients of both core and digital platforms that drive revenue growth for Visa as well as clients and customers satisfaction.

Some things you might work on during your Product rotation include:

• Participate in Products strategy definition for both core products and digital solutions
• Products range definition, including features, benefits and pricing
• Products adaptation to local market needs and at Issuer level
• Implementing of the CVP through in-house development and partnerships
• Delivery of products to clients, including marketing materials
• Participate in market and competitors benchmarking
• Support in the products ideation and concepts testing, data analytics activities, products material preparation, products sales activities to clients

Business Development:

Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. The business development team drives the country strategy and its objectives by identifying, leading and executing, through analytics, data and market intelligence, on opportunities to drive business growth for Visa and its clients.

Some things you might work on during your Business Development rotation include:

• Provide support to the BD team to develop and maintain the relationship between Visa and the clients
• Understand and implement card design brand standards. Provide urgent support to clients in obtaining waivers on designs.
• Attend to client queries and issues, and provide timely and efficient solutions
• Navigate throughout Visa across geographies to ensure a quick turnaround of client & BD requests.
• Monitor and analyze competitor strategies and contribute to developing/responding to these so that Visa’s market share within the market is enhanced
• Ensure clients’ compliance to service levels, integrity of service records and efficient resolution of complaints
• Support BD team in preparation of presentations/pitches to clients
• Preparation of regular analysis reports for market and for clients, focusing on portfolio performance and market share, comparison with targets by quarters.

Marketing:

Visa Marketing is the brand custodian, in charge of driving awareness, preference and conversion across B2B and B2C audiences. The team is responsible of building audience centric campaigns that reinforce emotional affinity via innovation and tangible proof points.

Some of the things you will be focusing on during your Marketing rotation include:

• Develop compelling content programs across owned channels, including social, email and web and manage publication process within the CEMEA marketing team and from PR/Comms team
• Manage our key partnerships with our media buying agency, from strategy, channel planning, digital and data to push our digital evolution upstream and leverage the relationship with key global partners
• Manage digital and social agencies / partners to drive breakthrough innovative engagement and always on social strategy
• Contribute to the development of Visa’s CRM and data strategy to be used for effective communication

• Currently In a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program (Computer Science, all Engineering disciplines, Physics, Mathematics, Business/Commerce/Economics)
• Graduate by August 2023 (Fresh graduates)
• Minimum 3.0 GPA or equivalent
• Available to join on August 2023
• Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills 

Additional Qualifications:

• Technical majors are encouraged to apply
• Excellent analytical abilities, intellectually curiosity and interest in finding new ways to do things
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Professional maturity, strong work ethic and the ability to be flexible and adaptable to changing business needs
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities in professional, academic, or volunteer environments
• A global mindset and ability to work in a diverse workplace.
• Ability to work constructively in teams, highly collaborative with a great attitude working on cross-functional teams where there may not be a direct reporting line.
• High energy level, performance oriented and passionate about customers, payment industry, and emerging technologies.

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.