Data Lifecycle Monitoring and Testing Senior Manager

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.

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Job Description

Visa’s Data Policy and Governance Team (DP&G) creates and implements foundational data management and governance policies, standards and processes. Visa’s brand is built on trust. As the world’s leader in digital payments, we hold ourselves to the highest standards for data usage, protection and privacy. Our goal is to be both a protector and enabler of growth, helping the all staff to use data to make critical business decisions, drive operational excellence and improve employee engagement, drive growth for Visa and our clients, optimize cost and minimize risks to the enterprise.

The Senior Manager, Data Lifecycle Monitoring and Testing, is responsible for the evaluation of Visa’s Data Lifecycle Management practices. This individual must be able to effectively evaluate and measure adherence to policies, standards, frameworks and identify, assess and communicate areas of strength and opportunity to strengthen our data capabilities and control environment. The individual will provide oversight to ensure practices meets internal standards, applicable regulatory requirements and applies industry best practices.  The candidate will work closely with business, functions and regional teams to provide input and expertise to drive a best-in-class Data Lifecycle Management capability programs. 

Candidate responsible for providing insight/recommending improvements on the control environment related to Visa’s Data Lifecycle Management capability

• Use knowledge of Visa’s business strategy, Global Data Policy and Global Privacy Program requirements to inform risk prioritized test plans
• Develop testing strategies, work plans, informed by interviews with First, Second and Third Line of Defense teams
• Execute testing engagements for functional and business areas to validate controls are working as intended
• Independently assess data practices against policies, frameworks, standards and guidelines
• Learn business processes and perform testing, monitoring, and validation of controls
• For issues identified in testing, provide recommendations for control enhancements and follow-up as necessary to ensure proper resolution
• Prepare management reports and related test results dashboards
• Stay current on the evolving risk landscape, related to data laws, regulations and best practices
• Report on Functional and Product and Payment Services data lifecycle management practices to Data Lifecycle Partners, highlighting areas that warrant attention
• Own and drive reporting to applicable governance to assist management in the early identification of risks and trends
• Collaborate with Data Capabilities team to share thematic findings and recommend capabilities needed to drive further maturity and uplift.

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

Basic Qualifications / The successful candidate must have:
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
• Excellent data analysis skills and demonstrated experience in testing, validation, Quality Assurance
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills (ability to translate complex information into comprehensive and concise test results and recommendations)
• Strong planning, organizational skills with ability to manage assignments that are of diverse scope and complexity and require significant initiative and judgment
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with ability to develop and sustain relationships across levels and role types, influences and collaborates with all levels, functions and g