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.

By applying to this role you will be considered for roles within Global Corporate Strategy and North America Strategy Teams

The Global Strategy team is responsible for business strategy development, coordination, and planning. Visa’s Corporate Strategy team is looking for a talented intern to join us in defining and driving the company’s strategy, help the company define priorities to deliver against it, and work on strategic projects related to strategy and operating model definition.

The ideal candidate is a highly analytical individual with previous business experience, who is comfortable starting with ‘a blank sheet of paper’ to evaluate new challenges for us.

Specifically this person will:

• Work on projects or major project workstreams related to Visa Inc.'s corporate strategy, business development, or initiatives
• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues. Build out unique, creative and impactful solutions by integrating insights across Visa's many expert functional resources and supporting collaborative solution development
• Develop rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations. Ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations
• Work closely with cross-functional and regional management teams on strategic projects, bringing timely and useful insight and analytical support
• Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise and impactful way

Basic Qualifications:

Pursuing an MBA, graduating December 2023 or later
Strong communications skills, clear and concise written and spoken communications, strong business acumen, and demonstrated professional judgment

Preferred: Qualifications:

• Typically requires 3-5 years total experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking or equivalent prior to beginning an MBA program.
• Experience in the payments industry not required, but a plus
• Ability to independently work on projects with multiple workstreams, with  success over a wide variety of functional business problems
• Ability to structure and manage complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at both senior and junior levels
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling
• Experience working with economic theories, strategic and prioritization frameworks, scenarios analysis, and competitive assessments. Knowledge of payment industry revenue drivers a plus.
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior managers and external business partners
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a "peer" with functional and regional leaders within Visa
• Commitment to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the corporate strategy function
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.