Sr. Compliance & Risk Consultant

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

Team Summary

The Risk team in Visa is overseeing Strategic Risk Management, with responsibility for championing security in the industry and maintaining the integrity of the Visa Payment Ecosystem. This complex and fast evolving ecosystem includes Issuing and Acquiring banks, Merchants, Cardholders, and Service Providers such as processors, device manufacturers, and payment gateways. The Risk comprise of many business functions, looking after Fraud and Risk Reduction, Visa Rules, Compliance and Standards, Credit Risk Settlement Management, etc.

The role of the Visa Rules, Compliance and Standards team (RCS) is to establish and enforce common interoperable rules and standards for our products and services by which clients must operate their Visa programs. The services provided include Rules management, Dispute adjudication, Contract management and external Standards Body Management, which are provided to ensure the safety, security, and integrity of the payment system and to support Visa clients in the development of their electronic payments business.

What a Rules Senior Consultant does at Visa:

This is a management career role, responsible for providing support with respect to creating and implementing compliance solutions that meet regulatory and strategic compliance objectives of Visa Inc. and its Clients with respect to the Visa International By-Laws, Visa Core Rules & Product and Service Rules and associated Supplemental manuals.

The role will be accountable for complex violations of Visa Rules and will primarily focus on Global Proactive compliance programs and may be exposed to working on proactive regional compliance initiatives in any of the Visa regions. The role will ensure that Clients are compliant to the Visa rules and to monitor, investigate and validate the compliance status of Clients and where necessary to pursue corrective, and negotiated actions with the Clients to bring them into compliance following the regulations as appropriate. This role will manage compliance cases/incidents and ensure that Non-Compliance Assessments (NCA) are assessed, deferrals granted when appropriate and agreed to incentivize compliance.

This role will have responsibility for direct reports, will be responsible for a direct budget and revenue responsibility managing and setting the direction for compliance enforcement initiatives which often involves complex and strategic issues that need oversight at an executive level given the precedence of such issues in the network.

The expectations of this role include the following and is not limited to:

• Monitoring, investigating, and validating the compliance status of Clients and where necessary to agree and execute corrective measures 
• Managing internal and external (when needed) relations within the context of compliance enforcement and non-compliance assessments and processes escalating where appropriate to the Visa Rules Management as required
• General Client compliance with the Visa Rules covering:
  • Assessment of the severity of the violation
  • Case Management until resolution is achieved
  • Imposing Non-Compliance Assessments, if required
  • Implementation of remediation plans and/or waivers in conjunction with Visa Rules Management Development staff members
  • Communication with Clients, Internal Stakeholders, and rule business owners
• Management of multiple compliance actions with Business Function owners at any one time prioritizing as appropriate and provision of direction to staff in various Visa business functions
• Provide Clients and staff with accurate interpretation and analysis of the Visa Rules in response to inquiries and / or questions related to Compliance activities and ensure understanding and compliance with the Visa Rules
• Develop and maintain good relationships with regional offices to ensure RCS team initiatives and best practice effectively introduced across all markets
• Assist in defining the annual strategy and objectives and plans to support the regions in accordance with strategy as directed by Senior Director, RCS Team
• Responsibility and accountability for the execution