Strategy & Commercial Internship

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.

Summer Internship

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 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.

Team Description

We are looking for a curious and self-motivated Intern to join our Strategy & Commercial Operations team in London. The Strategy & Commercial Operations team helps shape and deliver Visa’s commercial strategy for the UK and Ireland. We work across the business to understand market and client opportunities, develop strategic priorities and translate them into actionable plans that drive growth and support go-to-market execution.

The successful candidate will support a range of commercial strategy projects. This could include researching developments in payments and financial services, analysing market and business performance, identifying growth opportunities, developing insights and recommendations, and helping translate strategy into action.

Depending on the team and business priorities, the role may also provide exposure to Visa’s cross-border payments and international commerce team, exploring market trends, payment flows, customer behaviour and opportunities for growth.

This is a highly collaborative role, with opportunities to work across different parts of Visa including Sales, Business Development, Product, Finance, Marketing and other specialist teams. You will be encouraged to take ownership of defined pieces of work, contribute ideas and communicate your findings clearly.

The ideal candidate is curious, analytical, collaborative and highly organised, with an interest in how businesses develop and deliver strategy. They should be comfortable working with both quantitative and qualitative information, able to make sense of complex topics and interested in learning about payments and international commerce. Previous experience in payments or financial services is not required.

Join us to learn how Visa combines strategy, data, technology and commercial thinking to identify opportunities, support clients and drive growth in a rapidly changing payments landscape.

Examples of tasks could include

• Researching market trends and identifying implications and opportunities for Visa.
• Analysing quantitative and qualitative information to identify growth opportunities and develop clear insights and recommendations.
• Helping translate strategic priorities into actionable business and go-to-market plans.
• Contributing to an end-to-end strategic project, from defining the question and conducting research through to developing and presenting recommendations.
• Working with teams across Visa including Sales, Business Development, Product, Finance and Marketing to support strategic initiatives.
• Preparing presentations, analysis and briefing materials for senior stakeholders.
• Depending on business priorities, exploring strategic opportunities in areas such as cross-border payments and international commerce.
• Identifying opportunities to improve existing processes, analysis or ways of working.
• Building skills in structured problem-solving, analysis, commercial thinking, presentation and stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Permanent authorisation to work in the UK is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position. Future sponsorship will not be considered.
• Penultimate year of university, graduating in 2028 (please make sure this is clear from your CV).
• Ability to work full time over the summer of 2027 (June/July-Aug/Sept).
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Able to work as part of a diverse team and provide innovative ideas, including working with a range of stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with data and insights.

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.