Senior Director ? Risk MIS & Platforms ? AP- CEMEA- EU

Job Description

Company DescriptionVisa 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.Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.You will be a part of the Risk MIS & Platform team where we have a simple mission: curate digital capabilities and actionable insights that ensure seamless, secure commerce experiences across Visa?s physical and digital eco-system. Our analytics, platform and data professionals deliver on this mission by creating data-based capabilities, analysis and insights targeted at reducing fraud rates, improving payment success and preserving the security and integrity of the largest payment processing network in the world.Data and technical modernization are critical pillars of the Risk organization and, as such, this senior leadership position is an essential component of delivering against the promise and security of the Visa brand. To be successful, you will use strong analytical and leadership skills, contextual business sense and a creative flair to solve real world challenges for Visa and our clients. Your expertise and insights will serve as a beacon to guide business decisions based on intelligence and data. Directly reports to the Global Head of Risk MIS & Platforms with regular exposure to the Risk executive leadership team.Other Visa locations are possible but work will need to overlap corresponding time zones on a semi-regular basis.Essential Functions:This role is responsible for owning global analytics initiatives and platforms which deliver data-driven insights to internal and external stakeholders, both globally and in the AP/CEMEA/EU regions. It will have responsibility for both aesthetic and technical assets, as well as regular ad-hoc work, for internal executive stakeholders, issuing banks, acquirers, processors and merchants. The ability to balance a holistic global view with customized multi-regional delivery is crucial to success. Through collaboration with our client facing teams and functional leaders, you will bring data, intelligence and insights to bear which deliver mutual, tangible value to Visa and our clients by way of reducing fraud & crime, improving ecosystem security and driving secure growth via payment success. You must be exceptional in front of executives and decision makers with the ability to lead and influence strategic initiatives and planning. Leadership talent ? strategic, direct, and matrixed ? is essential. Specific responsibilities include:

• Lead the overall Risk strategy for specific Global Risk initiatives and various regional priorities, spearheading engagement models, data assets, delivery of insights, and prioritization of analytical roadmap
• Foster a high performing culture that becomes the benchmark for excellence at Visa mentor and develop more team members to ensure we build talent from within
• Compare client performance against industry best practices inject new perspectives with a shrewd eye toward identifying performance and/or profitability improvement opportunities.
• Relentlessly push beyond interesting to actionable with recommendations that drive lower fraud rates, more seamless commerce and improved experiences for players in our eco-system. Shift focus from historical performance toward real time anomaly and threat detection.
• Craft meaningful presentations and insights from complex data with content that clearly presents opportunities in an accurate, understandable, and engaging manner ensure data driven decision making is a priority for clients, colleagues, and other internal stakeholders
• Identify macro business and market trends that guide areas of future analysis
• Translate understanding of Visa?s products and services into client engagement strategies that yield financial and performance benefits
• Manage a suite of capabilities with an eye toward modernization, automation, and digitized workflows
• Serve as a strategic advisor to organizational leadership and peers ? including Global Risk, Regional Risk Officers, Functional Leaders and the Regional Presidents as necessary
• Mature how our analytic capabilities and platforms are integrated into business processes and each other, improving delivery effectiveness
• Cultivate deep cross-functional partnerships, building relationship capital that facilitates the advancement of holistic/strategic initiatives
• Be an expert at getting to the root of a problem, defining business objectives and formalizing requirements ? especially in a fast paced, fluid environment
• Influence tools and capabilities strategy through experience with various data environments, data sources and tools
• Exceptional risk, payments and/or business acumen coupled with technical rigor ? be able to seamlessly shift between working with data to conversations with executives

Qualifications

• 12+ years of work experience with a Bachelor?s Degree and Financial, Analytic or Tech experience
• 15+ years of experience in financial or technical leadership to include:
• 15 years of progressive success in roles of increasing responsibility
• 10+ years working in analytics, risk, management consulting, strategic operations or insight delivery
• 5+ years of leadership or management experience
• 5+ years of payments or fintech experience
• Quantitative or business degree highly desirable
• Possess a relentless, client-centric and result-driven mindset coupled with strong problem-solving skills and an ability to break down complex problems and propose alternative, new ways of thinking.
• Be a transformative leader with executive presence and experience ? inspire others beyond transactional engagement toward partnership excellence, cross-functionally and at all levels of the organization.
• Expertise in delivering data insights, strategic planning and analytic strategy is highly desirable
• Extensive experience in risk, banking or financial services is required. Visa experience or knowledge of the payments industry is highly desirable
• Fintech or digital experience is highly desirable
• Risk operations or Risk analytics experience or similar quantitative business responsibility for financial or operational performance highly desirable
• High-level understanding of manipulating data from a variety of sources
• Big data experience (Hadoop, Hive, Spark), data visualization experience (Tableau) and/or SQL experience are critical skills ? this role is about both doing and delivering
• Strong verbal, written, motivational and interpersonal skills are required
• Experience managing business functions in 2+ regions highly desirable ? be able to translate and share global perspective while internalizing regional realities and expertise to formulate winning analytic and digital strategies.

Additional InformationVisa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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