Branch Risk Officer

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

What’s it all about?

Key leader within Visa, driving the Eurozone risk and regulatory agenda by ensuring alignment with global strategies through leadership, oversight and influence. This is a highly visible role across Visa Europe and Globally, reinforcing the Eurozone view and ensuring interests are considered appropriately across the company.  This position will play a pivotal role in shaping and influencing Visa Europe’s strategic direction and risk management practices on a global scale to meet regulatory needs.

In this role, the Branch Risk officer is the most senior Risk Officer across the Eurozone, responsible for ensuring:

• Ecosystem security, engaging directly with clients and across the business to ensure the 2030 strategy
• Risk Leadership across the Branch, ensuring compliance with SIPS regulation
• while leading on all Risk and Regulatory matters (all ECB and management across JOT (joint oversight team) countries).

Whilst this is an independent second line role, the Branch Risk Officer is both a key advisor to the Branch Manager, ensuring overall health & success and to the Chief Risk Officer Europe.

This is a key role in bringing Eurozone risks to the forefront of consideration, advocating for necessary actions to be address where they are required.

This role requires a dynamic and strategic leader who can navigate complex regulatory environments and drive impactful risk management initiatives across Visa's European and global operations.
Specific responsibilities include:

• Key member of the Branch Manager’s Leadership Team
• Collaborating with VEL & Global colleagues to ensure alignment across Europe
• Build strong relationships with the Eurozone senior leadership teams and relevant Regional Managing Directors (RMDs) to deliver successful risk outcomes for the Eurozone, and specifically in relation to the JOT countries
• Develop clear and concise executive level communications. Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise and impactful way
• Lead and coach a high performing team, empowering employees to be accountable in delivering on key results and upholding our leadership principles.
• Attend and represent the Eurozone at VEL risk committees, ensuring that the Eurozone risks and issues are appropriately represented and discussed
• Deliver second line assurance pertaining to SIPS to the Chief Risk Officer, Executives and the VEL Board and present findings and confidence in remedial action at relevant VEL risk committees.

Core responsibilities (SIPS_

• Lead on risk and regulatory collaboration across VEL to ensure appropriate consideration of Eurozone requirements are met
• Lead the independent second line risk oversight team for the Eurozone, including the oversight of compliance with SIPS regulation
• Lead the identification, assessment, measurement, and management of Eurozone risks
• Responsible for the delivery of SIPS self-assessment to the regulator, including remediation plans
• Create a holistic strategy for Corporate Risk in relation to the Eurozone, to ensure that interlinkages and dependencies for the Eurozone are clear and drive alignment and continuous improvement in risk frameworks and policies
• Responsible for Risk related decision making for the Eurozone markets
• Oversee and lead the operational resilience capability for the Eurozone, attending Europe Crisis Management Team (CMT) meetings, and leading Eurozone specific topics at these meetings
• Create clear strategic priorities for the business and align resources accordingly. Ensure that decisions are made in a timely manner without over analysing data, hold others accountable for meeting goals
• Drive new regional Risk initiatives to achieve strategic risk outcomes with our regulators. Apply a variety of frameworks and strategies to solve business problems and opportunities
• Design and implement a strategy to ensure operational risk events and near misses are tracked. Through the team, ensure the changes needed to addres