Visa
Visa Leadership Associate Program
To connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.
Strategy and analysis
Full-time
Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Mid Level · A role for someone with some well-developed knowledge and skills they can bring to the role and team. Typically within 2-5 years of experience.
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Why Visa
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.
About the role
Through experiencing four six-month rotational assignments across the breadth of our business over the two-year program, our VLA graduates will be able to hone their business acumen while making a direct impact to Visa’s business.
Program Highlights
- Business Insight: Rotational assignments span key areas of Visa’s business (e.g. Consulting, Product, Value Added Services etc.) and VLA graduates will gain valuable skills and experiences that are aligned with their career goals and growth areas.
- Training & Development: Curated training courses in varied learning formats will be offered to expand business and industry knowledge and develop professional and technical skills.
- **Networking Opportunities: **Meaningful exposure to Visa leaders and subject matter experts will enable VLA graduates to broaden their perspectives and think more strategically.
- Career Progression: VLA graduates will have diverse opportunities for career progression after program completion.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office three days a week based on business needs.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Currently in the final year of an accredited Bachelor’s degree program, OR have graduated from university no earlier than February 2025.
- Available to join full-time when the program commences in February 2026, in Sydney.
- Permanent authorization to work in Australia is a precondition of employment as Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this program.
Preferred Qualifications:
- All majors are welcome to apply
- Strong leadership potential demonstrated through professional, academic, extra-curricular or volunteer experiences
- Professional maturity with a strong work ethic
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical/numerical abilities
- Intellectual curiosity with a keen appetite for learning
- Resourceful with proven problem-solving capabilities
- Flexible and adaptable to changing business needs
- Collaborative team player with the ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds
What you'll be responsible for
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Problem Identification
Identify the problems and needs of key stakeholders to guide data analysis
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Execution and Project Management
Plan and deliver project plans by managing people, resources, budget, and timelines, to support the organization’s goals
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Data Analysis and Reporting
Analyze data to discover and communicate insights, and offer concrete recommendations for key stakeholders to make critical decisions
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Prioritization
Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions
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Problem solving
Identifies problems and develops logical solutions that address the problems
Meet the team
The Strategy team is a diverse team, where all new fresh ideas and thoughts are encouraged by the team. Strategy Team has a broad range of stakeholders across the business, including active involvement with the AuNZSP leadership team. All these different perspectives across the business are critical building blocks to deliver strategic outcomes that are in the best interest of Visa and the payments ecosystem. While supporting strategy will be the primary objective of the role, this role will form part of an analyst community who support Finance, Merchant Services and Acquiring, Product and Sales as part of broader business priorities.