Consulting & Analytics Intern

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) teams are focused in helping key clients that include global banks and retailers and other merchants, as well as local FinTechs and governments. Our goal is to help clients solve strategic payment challenges and identify opportunities by supporting in benchmarking, ideation, definition, implementation and monitoring of recommendations.  

Resulting in our clients receiving end-to-end support that help them achieve scale, competitive advantage, and speed to market in the digital age. Exemplary projects:  

• How can a retail bank drive activation and usage of payment solutions (e.g., cards) in specific customer segments?  

• How can an airline build and enhance its payment value proposition for consumers and/or small businesses?  

• How can a credit card issuer use emerging technologies like open banking to acquire new customers?  

• How can an acquirer or merchant better understand customer loyalty?  

VCA engages clients throughout Europe and is organised in teams within, UK & Ireland, South Europe, FBL, Nordics & Baltics, Central Eastern Europe, and Central Europe  

Day to day responsibilities of an Intern Consultant: 

• Help drive business insights with data gathering and market trend analysis thanks to our superb data analytics powered by Visa data. 

• Support the VCA team in the delivery of projects for Internal Visa projects and clients across various domains, from payments, digital, products to strategy. 

• Develop, with assistance from your manager, VCA project deliverables (based in PowerPoint, excel, etc.) for assigned clients. 

By joining VCA as a Summer Intern you will:

• Gain a range of payment and project management skills and experiences, with the aim of coming back after degree completion as a Graduate VCA Consultant

• Work alongside an experienced and dynamic team, as well as top clients, expanding your knowledge in the payments sector and our consulting practices.

• Gain access to ad hoc training resources such as Buddy, Mentor, your own learning path, project coaching and more to accelerate your career plan, such as Visa University.

• Develop your management consulting skills in a market leader consulting organization, with top notch practices 

Visa’s Summer Intern Programme

Throughout the internship you will work on BAU work 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 of 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. 

This is a 4-6 month Internship for those Graduating in 2028. The internship can start in January or Spring 2027.

Qualifications

• Being in your penultimate year of university, including any further master's degrees or courses. Meaning your education will be complete in 2028.

• Full, permanent, right to work in France. Visa will not provide sponsorship for this role. 

• Fluency in English and fluency in French is required  

• Interest in technology and the payments industry 

• Curious mindset with an interest in solving problems alongside strong analytical and quantitative skills, driving insight from data analysis.  

• Proactive attitude with experience of being a self-starter, a willingness to learn and to think creatively and identify new ways to innovate. 

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.