Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Job Description

This role reports to the Group Head of Financial Crime and is responsible for supporting efforts to prevent and detect financial crime, including money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions violations, bribery, and fraud. You will also develop and implement enhancements to policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Are you passionate about fighting financial crime? Are you wanting to make an impact and build positive change? If so, this role may be the one for you!

• Improving and developing Group financial crime policies and their implementation across the business
• Interpreting and advising on all regulatory developments regarding financial crime compliance
• Advising on the improvement of financial crime systems and controls
• Leading the delivery of the annual financial crime risk assessment
• Crafting and delivering technical financial crime training to first line of defense operational and business teams
• Owning and leading on the delivery of key financial crime improvement projects
• Advising the business on risk appetite decisions
• Collaborating closely and leading both internal and external auditors in matters related to financial crime

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. ​

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

5 of yrs experience

Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school.

Current member in good standing of a State Bar with the ability to become barred or a registered in-house counsel in the state where this role is located

Preferred Qualifications:

To apply for this Financial Crime Manager role, we are looking for someone that has at least 3 years within Financial Crime Prevention within the financial services industry in a 2nd line compliance role. We will also require the following:

Knowledge of UK and EU financial crime regulations

Experience of designing and implementing effective financial crime control frameworks

Experience of implementing policies and procedures covering multiple jurisdictions

Experience of conducting business-wide financial crime risk assessments

Ability to provide training on problematical AML/CTF and Sanctions topics

Comfortable working with data

Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Additional Information

Visa 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.