Visa South Africa invites unemployed graduates to apply for Student Internships / Internship Programme for 2026.
Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Job Type: Student Internship
Closing Date: Not Specified
Starting June 2026, for current students graduating in 2027.
Requirements:
- Current student working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree, with a graduation date of December 2026
- Be available to pursue a 3-month internship (June 2026 to August 2026)
- Must be available to Must be available to join a full-time role by January 2027
- The below disciplines welcome to apply
- Excellent academic record
- Strong analytical capabilities and experience solving business cases
- Strong in MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint
- Superior analytical and financial analysis skills
- Strong collaboration skills with a diverse peer group required
- Able to articulate viewpoint effectively to key stakeholders in order to get buy in and agreement
- Self-confident and hands-on, with the ability to operate in a fast paced and constantly changing work environment
The following Internship Opportunities are open for applications:
Business Development Internship
Key Responsibilities
- Provide admin and Operations support to the local team.
- Contribute to development, production and implementation of initiatives outlined in Country plans
- Competition analysis and monitoring
- Assist the local team with client queries and issues
- Support Business Planning & Operations teams’ with periodical reports (Weekly/Monthly or quarterly)
- Assist BDs with Playbook and country plans update
- Co-ordinate with other Visa departments in order to successfully track the country plans.
- Complete ad hoc project/research and presentation work and other relevant initiatives as requested by the management
The learning objectives of this internship is to:
- Develop a sales management mindset
- Be able to analyse data, trends and make meaningful recommendations
- Be a good project manager
- Develop a thorough understanding of the payments landscape
- Current student working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree, with a graduation date of December 2026
Visa Consulting & Analytics Internship
Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is the payments consulting arm of Visa, focused on serving Visa’s clients and partners. We are a global team of ~600 consultants and data scientists. We offer consulting and analytics services across different areas of interest to our clients including strategy, product, portfolio management, risk, digital and more.
Within VCA, we have a dedicated Data Science team who are experts in statistics, advanced analytics and machine learning with exclusive access to insights from VisaNet, one of the largest payment networks in the world. The majority of our team members are generalists and get exposure to all the topics we offer and all the countries we cover.
During your VCA internship assignment, you will get to work closely with a consulting project team to support in different aspects of the project delivery, including for example:
- Collecting required data and conducting research
- Conducting data analysis using internal and external data sources
- Developing insights from the data analyses to support the recommendations development process
- Developing project deliverables including slides, excel models, etc.
- Supporting the project team members in developing hypotheses, contributing to conclusions and assisting other senior team members in presenting back to the client
- Supporting the team in presenting the recommendations to the client
In addition to contributing to consulting projects, you may also get the chance to support VCA team members in developing white papers or internal research, as well as client proposals.
VCA projects (as well as proposals) can be with clients across the region and can be across the different VCA focus areas (portfolio, digital, risk, etc.) depending on the project pipeline.
Qualifications: Current student working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in any of the following disciplines with a graduation date of December 2026;-
- Economics
- Business
- Finance
- IT/MIS
- Engineering
Visa Client Services Internship
The global client support group works with locally deployed client service experts to develop and deliver post sales engagements including support, optimisation and training for Visa Inc. issuers, acquirers, processors and merchants worldwide. This includes day-to-day operations and product support, specialised help desks, back office support, customer performance reporting, optimisation analytics, Post Sales Client plans and cost optimisation.
Some things you might work on during your CS Internship include:
- Respond to routine operational service and support inquiries from Visa client institutions.
- Provide information and direction for customers regarding VisaNet Core Application Services, General Transaction Research, Billing, User ID and similar queries.
- Perform transaction and process research to analyze potential technical or operational problems or issues.
- Complete data entry in a timely and accurate manner for assigned client institutions
- Log service requests plus resolutions in a timely and accurate manner for call or problem tracking and knowledge base software applications.
- Work with stakeholders within CS (Client Support Services), CMS team and non-CSS organizations to resolve client issues.
- Be accountable for delivering against commitments to clients.
- Organized in tasks and activities.
- Develop process improvement procedures to improve operational efficiency
- Input information into our CRM tools
- Analyze customer data to pick up trends
- Join Client QBR meetings for insights
Qualifications: Current student working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in any pf the following disciplines with a graduation date of December 2026;-
- Business
- Marketing
- Commerce
- Finance
- Economics
- Statistics
- Engineering
- IT
How to Apply for Visa South Africa: Student Internships 2026
Click on the Apply Now button below your Visa South Africa: Student Internship Programme to apply online:
Business Development Internship
Qualifications:
- Current student working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree, with a graduation date of December 2026
Visa Consulting & Analytics Internship
Qualifications: Current student working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in any of the following disciplines with a graduation date of December 2026;-
- Economics
- Business
- Finance
- IT/MIS
- Engineering
Visa Client Services Internship
Qualifications: Current student working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in any pf the following disciplines with a graduation date of December 2026;-
- Business
- Marketing
- Commerce
- Finance
- Economics
- Statistics
- Engineering
- IT
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