Associate, Global Corporate Strategy

Visa Visa · Fintech · San Francisco, CA

This role is in Global Corporate Strategy, focusing on charting Visa's long-term strategy. It involves supporting workstreams, solving business challenges, developing quantitative analyses, and communicating recommendations to senior executives. The role is designed for talent cultivation over two years, with opportunities to move to other business units or stay in Corporate Strategy. It requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in the payments industry being a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support major workstreams across projects that strengthen Visa Inc.'s corporate strategy
  2. Solve business challenges in close collaboration with business stakeholders across functions and regions
  3. Develop rigorous, fact-based, quantitative analyses to support shifts to Visa’s strategy or products
  4. Communicate recommendations within the Corporate Strategy Team and to broader internal audiences, including senior executives
  5. Participate in regular strategy and payment focused trainings

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree
  • 2 or more years of work experience

Nice to have

  • 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree
  • 2 or more years of relevant work experience
  • 3 or more years of relevant work experience preferably at a leading management consulting firm or investment bank
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
  • attention to detail
  • Ability to structure and conduct complex quantitative analysis
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment
  • Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior stakeholders and external business partners
  • Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments industry