Finance Summer Intern

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.

Our Summer Internship is an 11-week programme providing you the opportunity to experience all that Visa has to offer alongside completing challenging work, building your skillset, and networking with fellow interns and Visa employees. Throughout the internship you will support professionals on core activities within your team, be given an end-to-end project to complete and take part in a variety of trainings to increase your learning. You will also get the opportunity to take part in a global social impact case challenge as well as hearing from senior leaders through our Visa Executive Speaker Series.

The internship is just the beginning to what we hope will be a lasting career at Visa! If you are successful throughout your internship you could even secure a graduate role with us when you finish university.

Day to Day Responsibilities

In Finance, we want new, fresh perspectives in a rapidly changing world. This means we are looking for problem solvers like you to revolutionize the world of payments who can also look at the bigger picture through innovation and collaboration.

Here are some exciting things you could do as an intern in Corporate Finance:

• Experience the day to day of our Deal team, participating in some of Visa’s negotiations with some of the biggest banks in the world
• Work in our Pricing team helping us better price our product and services, understand strategic levers of pricing
• Collaborate with our Treasury team to understand key drivers behind our Balance Sheet, cash flow and help build stress testing scenarios
• Interpreting financial data to identify future business potential by working closely with senior leaders in Sales, Strategy or Marketing
• Improve Visa’s financial performance by analysing results and variances; identifying trends and recommending action
• Working with us to optimize our large budget of investments, making sure we always invest on those activities and campaigns that give us higher returns
• Help the Sourcing team on making our suppliers more compliant with our ESG goals

For those interested in traditional Finance, you can also help us ensure financial data accuracy, integrity and consistency of by working in more specialized Finance teams like Controllership or Tax.

Visa Europe is home to a talented team with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Our campaign “YOUniqueness, Accepted Everywhere” is all about allowing our individuals who work for us the opportunity unleash their difference and the potential that is uniquely their own. We’re looking for the next generation of change-agents – dreamers and creatives - who are fascinated by new technology and want to be empowered to change the way business is done.

Therefore, our requirements are few:

• Current university student in your penultimate year, graduating in 2026, pursuing a Master’s degree in any subject, ideally a Finance, Economics or STEM subject
• Oral and written fluency in local language is required in addition to high level of English (written/spoken)
• Proactive, with experience of being a self-starter and has a willingness to learn
• Passionate about technology and the payments industry
• Confident in MS Office tools such as Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Confident communication skills to be able to work with senior stakeholders

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

If you feel you require adjustments to our recruitment process for this role, please let your recruiter know at the outset of the process so we can best accommodate.