Sr. Counsel, Regulatory Affairs

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

The role will report to a Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Global Risk and Regulatory Affairs, based in Washington DC. 

You will be responsible for:

• Providing legal advice and support to the Value Added Services (VAS) business in connection with Visa’s broader Issuing Solutions, Acceptance Solutions and Risk and Identity Solutions teams, across a wide range of complex regulatory and commercial matters and projects, working with colleagues in offices across the world to support the day-to-day legal needs of our internal clients.  VAS offerings include issuer processing services, risk mitigation products, digital enablement SDKs, fraud prevention services, loyalty and offers, open banking, and dispute resolution.

• Navigating the complex landscape of regulations and  risk management  considerations that may be applicable in the provision of value-added services, working closely with other experienced attorneys across regions and practice areas, including commercial counsel within Visa supporting individual VAS products and services.

• Engaging and managing external counsel on a range of issues, interrogating legal analyses and translating advice into clear and actionable guidance for our business teams.

• Understanding Visa’s strategy, recognizing the connections between matters and working pro-actively to ensure these are given appropriate attention for the benefit of the Visa group and its overall management of legal risk.

• Managing day-to-day legal queries and taking the lead on all relevant legal activities.

• Training business areas on law, processes and policies.

• Developing, managing and maintaining relationships to facilitate the effective delivery of legal support, liaising with other Visa departments across the globe to ensure full alignment with business needs and policies.

• Proactively contributing to the efficiency and effectiveness of the Legal, Ethics & Compliance division as a whole.

Qualifications

What we’re after…
Applicants must be skilled at managing multiple priorities in a fast paced, time sensitive, and challenging, but highly rewarding environment, have excellent judgment and strong analytical, problem solving, client counseling, and negotiation skills, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be able to clearly and easily present complex topics and ideas to senior leaders, be self-motivated and entrepreneurial, and, most importantly, be a confident, forward thinking, creative, optimistic, curious, and collaborative team player.

Basic Qualifications
• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD)
• Admitted to practice law in the United States and in good standing.
• Fluent English speaker
• Strong academic credentials

Preferred Qualifications
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Experience with commercial law and regulations in a multi-jurisdictional environment.
• Familiarity with U.S. credit, debit and payment system laws, consumer reporting and fair lending laws, and third party risk management considerations. Experience with supporting multi-jurisdictional product offerings considered a plus.
• Good understanding of working in-house within a large technology organization.
• Enthusiasm to become an expert adviser within the payments industry.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will rece