Senior Manager, Risk Business Partner (Corporate Functions)

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Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
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Job Description
Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology?
Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?
As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.
At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.
You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.
What's it all about
As the Senior Manager - Risk Business Partner (Corporate Functions) you will be central to delivering on Risk Europe's strategy in relation a wide range of corporate functions by:
1. Building strong relationships
Work closely with VEL Corporate Functions
Work closely across Risk Europe
Work closely with relevant Global Risk Teams
Working collaboratively with the different corporate functions (e.g. Client Services, People Team, Marketing etc) and other functions to deliver key objectives related business projects and initiatives
Working collaboratively with other departments in Risk Europe and Global Risk to:
Formulate and support delivery of the different supporting corporate functions strategy
Develop and maintain policy that supports the sustainable growth of the VEL strategy
Deliver appropriate consistency in risk management
Deliver against growth related projects and initiatives
What we expect of you, day to day:
Job Purpose:
The Senior Manager - Risk Business Partner (Corporate Functions) represents Visa Risk Europe on any associated corporate functions initiatives. Provide support to the rest of the PPSR, Risk Business Partner & Strategy team on other corporate functions work as needed. The role will help with risk management on developing and implementing the strategy by creating and updating the policy and assisting with industry/client involvement as needed to improve the environment.
Key Accountabilities:
Ability to lead, manage and deliver against multiple corporate functions and direct time and resources (capacity planning) to achieve the best possible outcome.
Act as the Risk Europe point of contact across multiple VEL corporate functions and work cross regionally with key stakeholders such as Global Risk as relevant to execute to our clients
Form key stakeholder relationships across VEL to develop an in depth understanding of the current end-to-end risk client lifecycle including onboarding, credit risk and ecosystem risk monitoring. Provide recommendations to tailor the existing client lifecycle to meet specific risks across multiple corporate functions where needed.
Ensure that Visa Europe Risk have appropriate insight into risks arising from different corporate functions. Establish and maintain effective channels of disseminating intelligence on specific or generic threats to the payment system and its members.
Provide Visa Europe members and their business partners with authoritative intelligence to guide their risk mitigation efforts/investment decisions. Provide management information on specific threats
Support growth related strategy/activities/products by being able to articulate current risk control environment, assist in assessing any new risks that may arise from new strategy/activities and consider these in the wider context of the overarching risk appetite
Develop awareness of the wider regulatory environment and key external developments for the new payments flow sector including any events that may require legal consideration, reg engagement or a change to Visa Rules.
Write reports and proposals to key audiences, Risk Committee (ERC), Board Risk Committee (BRC) Regulators (e.g. Bank of England, ECB etc) outlining key progress/trends/findings emerging from due diligence activity within the corporate functions
Socialise proposed policy changes with the business and industry (where relevant) and incorporate feedback managing internal and external stakeholders (including necessary approval processes) to deliver solutions
Advise, influence and support the policy makers, law enforcement agencies and the Judiciary at European, National and local level where needed.
Support the Risk Advisors in their scaled client engagements including SME advice on any large-scale client outreach strategy, complex client queries and client facing materials that can be used in client educational sessions, client bank forums, wider industry and sector audiences as needed.
Report to PPSR leadership when required on relevant risk strategies.
Ensure that senior executives within Visa have timely and accurate information on which to base decisions.
Lead, manage and deliver multiple concurrent high visibility time sensitive projects and direct time and resources (capacity planning) to achieve the best possible outcome.
Drive the collection and analysis of information, research possible causes and trends then direct the choose the most relevant solution.
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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications
Expert understanding and experience of risk management practices in financial services
Expert of the wider European payments and / or financial services industry and the major trends affecting key stakeholders, including the regulatory, political and market environment, payment products and services, economic and competitive landscape technology and the rising threat of data breaches
Knowledge and experience of Visa Europe payment system, its governance principles and Visa Europe's compliance framework
Track record in synthesising complex information to produce impactful management information and analysis, and support informed executive decision making
Knowledge and understanding of relevant regulation
Understanding of business strategy, clients and their evolving requirements
Proven ability to build teams into cohesive, efficient and value adding entities that continually strive to achieve the best possible results
Proven ability to build credible-long term effective working relationships, both internally and externally
Experienced in preparing/reviewing/delivering executive level communications, both written and oral
Control / corporate functional experience (Finance, Risk & Regulatory, Legal, Compliance)
Sound knowledge and experience of law in relation to the payments environment and ideally have had experience in working with law enforcement/judiciary and Court proceedings
Additional Information
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.
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