Vice President- Regional Ethics and Compliance Leader- CEMEA

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.This position is responsible for the oversight, support and monitoring of the application of Visa?s Ethics and Compliance Program across the CEMEA region. The position is a critical partner to the business, providing pragmatic, solutions-oriented counsel to ensure that Visa has effective risk management, decision-making and review of key processes to ensure we meet international standards, the requirements of regulations and laws of the United States and of the countries in which we operate.These activities include the following areas of risk:

• Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption
• Office of Foreign Assets Controls and other Sanctions
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Anti-Terrorist Financing (ATF)
• Antitrust and Competitive Intelligence
• Harassment and Discrimination
• Other specific compliance requirements of regulators who have regulatory authority over our operations in the CEMEA region.

In addition, this position also holds responsibility for ensuring the highest standards of conduct, as set out in Visa?s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the Code). Particular areas of focus include:

• Business Conduct and Ethics
• Conflicts of Interest
• Prevention of Insider Trading

Core Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all Ethics and Compliance Program matters in the CEMEA region and serve as the primary point of contact for business units, support functions and other control functions.
• Primary point of contact for AML/ATF matters with regulators based in CEMEA, in collaboration with Visa?s Legal and Government Relations functions.
• Collaboration with Visa?s Financial Intelligence Analytics Center on activities including additional and enhanced due diligence applied to AML/ATF & Sanctions cases, including direct communications and requests for information from clients and partners.
• Ensuring that the business has effective decision-making, risk assessment, processes, controls and procedures to meet obligations of internal policy and international and local regulations, laws and requirements.
• Review of significant business strategies, activities and transactions, assessment of risk and development and execution of risk mitigation action at regional, country, program and product level.
• Accountable for managing the process to provide required reporting to regulatory authorities in the CEMEA region, where relevant.
• Promote understanding of Visa?s Global Ethics and Compliance Program and Code and drive effective inclusion of Ethics and Compliance in business activities and strategies.
• Manage Visa?s CEMEA-based ethics and compliance staff and deliver compliance office visits within the region to re-enforce annual ethics and compliance training and adherence to the Code. Assist on Business Conduct Office investigations in the region, as needed.

Execution of due diligence requirements of the Anti-Bribery/Anti-Corruption Program, AML/ATF & Sanctions Program, including third party due diligence, provision of AML/ATF workshops and education for clients and on-site client AML program assessments. The AML/ATF component is a significant portion of the position?s overall responsibilities.Qualifications?Bachelors degree minimum, higher education qualifications preferred.?Professional AML/ATF accreditation required.?ICA Diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance or similar qualification preferred.?15+ years of experience in management of compliance programs and controls within the financial services industry, preferably some in the CEMEA region.?Good knowledge of payments industry products, emerging products, regulations and related trends.?Strong people management, strategic planning, and leadership experience and demonstrable ability to inspire employees.?Experience in successfully partnering with senior business clients and exhibiting executive presence, serving as a strong ambassador of the Ethics and Compliance function in business leadership and other forums.?Willingness to roll up your own sleeves and engage directly in Compliance tasks, as well as personally lead projects with appropriate subject matter expertise.?Experience in conducting internal employee misconduct investigations would be beneficial.?Experience interacting directly with regulators, particularly in the financial services industry and preferably in CEMEA would be beneficial.?Highly analytical and self-motivated, adept at working independently and in a dispersed team environment covering multiple and varied tasks.?Capable of working collaboratively with employees from all levels within the organization. Flexible to work in an environment where needs are continually changing.?Corporate experience with a proven track record of managing multiple projects and relationships in a complex matrix business and operational environment, including handling both intra regional and regional/HQ relationships.?Intuitive, highly ethical and comfortable to question and challenge when required, including ability to ?speak truth to power? and assert independence without being antagonistic.?Ability to manage a diverse, changing, short fuse and challenging workload, often across time zones and involving different cultural contexts, and able to triage and execute on priorities with minimal supervision.?Some travel (at least 20% of time) and ongoing unconventional business hours (conference calls, video calls and web based meetings with other global time zones) will be required.?Excellent analytical and data analysis skills including use of MS Office systems including Word, Access, Visio, Excel (advanced), Power Point, SharePoint and other applications.?Excellent and professional written, presentation and communication skills. Ability to speak multiple languages is a plus.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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