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.
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Job Description
The Ecosystem Risk function upholds the security and integrity of the payment ecosystem through the detection, mitigation and remediation of fraudulent and illegal activity. The Europe team is responsible for ensuring that Visa’s global ecosystem risk framework and approaches are fit for the European payment system and support Visa’s goal of driving sustainable business growth.
The Ecosystem Risk Controls team sits within the Ecosystem Risk function, with this role reporting into the Head of Ecosystem Risk. The remit of the Ecosystem Risk Controls team continues to increase with new responsibilities that ensure Visa can grow its business while having sufficient oversight to protect against egregious activity.
The Ecosystem Risk Controls Director role manages the deployment of client control processes throughout the Europe region, primarily through the Visa Integrity Risk Program. The objective of these processes is to assess the effectiveness of controls Acquirers have in place to onboard and manage merchants that are active across defined, high-risk merchant activities.
This role has responsibility for deploying and further developing an “underwriting” as well as an “ongoing monitoring” approach to ensure minimum standards and acceptance criteria are used to approve Acquirers operating in High Integrity Risk sectors. The role holder will drive risk remediation where required, working in conjunction with the wider Europe Ecosystem Risk team, Risk Managers and other stakeholders. As Visa looks to expand its control offerings and requirements beyond Acquirers, this role will be responsible for ensuring those approaches are effective within the European ecosystem.

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