Sr. Associate, Corporate Development

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.**

Job Description**
Team **s**ummary**:
Visa’s Corporate Development team is responsible for helping shape Visa’s strategy through acquisitions and investments, and bringing insights from the latest innovations and trends in the payments and broader Fintech ecosystem. As the payment landscape evolves, the Corporate Development team interacts with external players (companies, VCs, PE firms, bankers), and partners with internal stakeholders, including regional and product leaders, across high priority areas including payments gateways, data analytics, security/fraud, cross-border, and B2B payments. We identify emerging industry trends, as well as source, evaluate, structure and execute acquisitions, minority investments, and other strategic initiatives across Visa globally.
**What a Sr. Associate of Corporate Development does at Visa**:
The role of Sr. Associate, Corporate Development will support Visa’s principal investment and acquisition origination and portfolio management across the Asia Pacific region. The Sr. Associate will support AP head of corporate development and ventures to define and execute an inorganic growth strategy for the region. Visa implements a pro-active approach to sourcing transactions, while also maintaining the best of relationships with entrepreneurs, bankers, lawyers, VCs, and PE funds active in the multiple ecosystems in which Visa operates.

Sr. Associate responsibilities will include sourcing and vetting opportunities; supporting the construction of investment/acquisition theses with Visa stakeholders; facilitating due diligence, portfolio monitoring and reporting of strategic investments; and establishing relationships within Visa and external ecosystem partners.

In this role, you are expected to:

- Perform industry research to identify acquisition and investment opportunities to support Visa’s existing businesses and expansion into new areas
- Build an informed perspective on market segments of interest to Visa, including the creation of market maps, target comparisons, and analysis of VC and private equity investment trends
- Coordinate with partnerships, product, functional and market teams to support defining strategic acquisition or investment priority areas and managing a pipeline of high impact opportunities for inorganic growth
- Develop investment/acquisition materials that outline strategic benefits, competitive landscape, commercial terms, deal terms, and other relevant information for potential transactions
- Support strategic investment due diligence workstreams across various domains including technical, business, financial and legal diligence
- Monitor operational and financial performance of portfolio companies; facilitate quarterly performance analysis for individual companies and full AP investment portfolio
- Cultivate relationships with Fintechs, VCs and other ecosystem partners to help identify and source inorganic growth opportunities aligned with Visa strategic priorities
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with all key internal and external stakeholders
**Why this is important to Visa**:
Visa’s AP Corporate Development team is responsible for helping shape Visa’s regional strategy through acquisitions and investments in close coordination with the Global Corporate Development team. In close alignment with the regional and global product and functional teams, you will be instrumental in sourcing opportunities for inorganic growth, and bringing insights and trend identification in the payments and broader Fintech ecosystem.
**Projects you will be a part of**:
As part of the team, you will get opportunity to work on strategically important projects for Visa.
- Identify acquisition and investment opportunities to support Visa’s existing businesses and expansion into new areas
- Develop market sensing processes for trend identification and opportunity prioritization
- Scout and engage the Fintech ecosystem to develop external relationships and solidify Visa as the partner-of-choice for high calibre start-ups

**Qualifications**:
What you will need for this role:

- Bachelor or