Senior Compliance Officer

Job title:

Senior Compliance Officer

Company:

Visa

Job description

Company DescriptionVisa 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 DescriptionThis role reports to the Head of Compliance and is part of a collaborative team that works cross-functionally within the business and also involves client and external stakeholder management. The role will require you to:

• Manage and proactively enhance our compliance framework. This will include developing and maintaining a combination of controls, training, risk assessment, policies, procedures and management information.
• Manage and proactively enhance our monitoring program of conduct control testing and report on the activities to relevant audiences highlighting key findings and remedial actions.
• Prepare and deliver conduct risk management information to relevant audiences (peers, compliance leadership, executive committee, board of directors) highlighting key initiatives, regulatory trends and areas of concern.
• Manage the annual risk assessment process (SIRA, ESG) by identifying risks and proposing mitigating actions incl. developing related controls.
• Able to translate Global Group policy requirements to local policies in line with the local regulatory requirements as well as respecting the Visa’s group standards.
• Responsible for reporting unusual transactions to the relevant authorities.
• Provide ongoing and ad-hoc advice to analysts on AML/CFT requirements.
• Act as an internal subject matter expert on conduct risk and money laundering.
• Share knowledge on internal trends and wider industry developments.
• Provide training to other teams within Compliance on existing and emerging conduct and AML/CFT risk topics.
• Work with client-facing teams to ensure required changes are implemented in practice.

Qualifications

• A compliance background of at least 8 years within financial services with an understanding of conduct risk regimes, drivers, controls and regulatory expectations.
• Academic legal background or equivalent.
• Knowledge of European payments and / or financial services industry and the major trends affecting key stakeholders, including the regulatory, political and market environment, payment products and services, economic and competitive landscape technology and the rising threat of data breaches.
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of compliance integrity risk management in the payment industries.
• Knowledge of the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing in the payment industry.
• Experience in preparing, reviewing and delivering executive level communications.
• Experience of conducting risk assessment by identifying risks and proposing mitigating actions incl. developing related controls.
• A strong understanding of what constitutes an effective compliance control
• Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational and project management skills.
• A hands-on and independent approach.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch, both written and verbal.
• Excellent team-working skills, ability to manage own workload and clear understanding on when to escalate identified issues to the Head of Compliance.

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.

Expected salary

Location

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Job date

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:19:01 GMT

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