Finance Intern

Visa; City Of London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa invites university students to join its Summer Internship Programme, an 11-week experience designed to expose you to the Finance Deal, Pricing and Treasury teams. You will work on end-to-end projects, gain hands-on experience, and participate in trainings and leadership talks.

Successful interns may secure a graduate role. The programme emphasizes learning, collaboration with senior stakeholders, and exposure to large banking negotiations within a global payments company.

Qualifications

• Current university student graduating in 2028 pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics or STEM.
• UK work rights; Visa will not sponsor visas for this position.
• Proactive, self-starting with a willingness to learn.
• Passionate about technology and the payments industry.
• Proficient in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Some knowledge of SQL, Python, R welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Experience day-to-day of Visa's Finance Deal team through negotiations with major banks.
• Assist Pricing team to understand pricing levers and strategy.
• Collaborate with Treasury to understand balance sheet drivers and cash flow.
• Interpret financial data to identify future business potential with senior leaders in Sales, Strategy or Marketing.
• Analyze results and variances to improve financial performance and identify trends.
• Support budgeting investments to optimize returns on campaigns and activities.
• Assist with specialised Finance teams like Controllership or Tax if needed.

Skills

Self-starter

Proactive learner

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's inFinance/Economics/STEM

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

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

Summer Internship Programme

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

Our Finance Intern Programme:

• 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 optimise our large budget of investments, making sure we always invest on those activities and campaigns that give us higher returns.
• For those interested in traditional Finance, you can also help us ensure financial data accuracy, integrity and consistency by working in more specialised Finance teams like Controllership or Tax.

Qualifications

• Current university student graduating in 2028 pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in any subject, ideally a Finance , Economics or STEM subject.
• Permanent authorisation to work in the U.K is a precondition of employment for this position. Home Office sponsorship requirement mean that Visa will not be in a position to sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position. Future sponsorship will not be considered.
• 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.
• Some knowledge of SQL, Python, R is not necessary, but welcome.
• Confident communication skills to be able to work with senior stakeholders.

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.