Consulting & Analytics (Strategy) Graduate

**Company Description**
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

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 FinTech’s 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, Nordics & Baltics, Central Eastern Europe, and Central Europe. The current position is to join our Global Graduate program within the Southern Europe cluster and is based in Milan, Italy.

**Day to day responsibilities of a Graduate 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 Visa clients across various domains, from payments, digital, products to strategy, including project management.
- Co-lead strategy to market activities including but not limited to workshops, client meetings, content development etc.
- Develop, with assistance from your manager, VCA project deliverables (based in PowerPoint, excel, etc.) for assigned clients.

**Visa’s Graduate Programme**:
Visa hires into its Graduate programme across Asia Pacific (APAC), Latin America (LAC), CEMEA (Central Europe, Middle East & Africa) and Europe. Within each region we hire Graduates into a variety of business functions, joining as one cohort, part of a Global programme.

This is a 2-year programme, where you are supported with various skills and development sessions throughout your time as a Graduate.

By joining VCA as a Graduate you will:

- 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 global market leader consulting organization, with top-notch practices
- Have access to Visa’s Benefits and relocation allowance

**Qualifications**
Visa Europe is home to a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Our campaign YOUniqueness, Accepted Everywhere is all about allowing our team to unleash the talent and 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**:

- Graduated in 2024 or, Graduating summer 2025 - ready start the role September 2nd 2025.
- Effective communication skills - **Oral and written fluency in local language**is required in addition to high level of English (written/spoken).
- Proficient storytelling, including delivery of executive documents and presentations
- 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.
- Demonstrated teamwork and relationship-building skills.
- Interest in technology and the payments industry

**Additional Information**
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