Sr. Business Analyst, Audit & Risk

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

This Senior Business Analyst position will serve as part of Visa's Operations and Infrastructure (O&I) Audit and Risk function within the O&I Technology Management team. This position will provide oversight, coordination, and delivering the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests while effectively balancing the individual elements of these activities.

Essential Functions

• Serve as the primary point of contact for daily Operations and Infrastructure audit, risk, and compliance inquiries, including responding to questions related to audit methodologies, risk assessments, and regulatory requirements.

• Develop and maintain detailed documentation of audit processes, risk assessment frameworks, and compliance procedures.

• Coordinate and manage responses to regulatory inquiries, due diligence requests, and internal and external audit requests, ensuring timely and accurate communication.

• Oversee the management of audit findings, including supporting the development of remediation plans, tracking issue resolution, and reporting on progress.

• Prepare and distribute reports and to management and stakeholders, summarizing key risks, compliance status, and recommendations.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to foster collaboration and support for audit and risk initiatives.

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
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or Business Administration or another related field.
o Significant and relevant technical experience meeting the job description may be substituted for degree requirements.
• 3-5 years of work experience in Information Security, Audit, Risk, and/or Compliance
o Open to experience in other relevant fields (e.g., finance, business administration, information technology, etc.) if candidate can demonstrate relevancy to this Information security-based role
• 2+ years direct participation and experience across common industry audit and security policy areas, including, but not limited to ISO, NIST, COSO, COBIT, PCI, FFIEC, SOX, SSAE16/ISAE3402, SOC 2 and others
• Experience working with multiple individuals on internal and external delivery
• Effectively drive tasks and action items to closure, ensuring all relevant stakeholders are engaged and informed throughout the process
• Ability to synthesize a variety of data points, problem solve and formulate comprehensive and effective execution and risk mitigation plans
• Exceptional communication skills - both written and verbal to support compliance and certification audits
• Must be extremely flexible and able to manage multiple tasks and priorities on very tight deadlines.
• Experience in Audit/Compliance/Regulatory discussions and proactive readiness activities in a large global financial institution or a matrix organization
• Excellent Data Analysis skills using Microsoft Excel, SQL, or other scripting languages
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, PCI QSA/ISA Certifications preferred

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requi