Ethics & Compliance Director

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

As a global payments network, Visa maintains a Compliance Program designed to proactively manage legal, regulatory and ethical risks across our business. The Ethics & Compliance (E&C) team is responsible for the delivery of this program.

The E&C Director role is a senior role within the Europe E&C team responsible for leading, managing, refining and implementing the delivery of compliance for several core E&C programs in Europe. The successful candidate will be a motivated, driven individual capable of leading and inspiring a small team of subject matter experts. They will be responsible for delivering current compliance programs and developing strategies to address evolving compliance risks and new developments in a fast-paced, complex regulatory environment.

Leadership & Responsibilities

Core responsibilities:

• Defining and overseeing the strategy for key E&C programs in Europe, adapting as necessary
• Ensuring programs operate effectively and efficiently, implementing changes to respond to new developments, including strategic planning, operational improvement, and change management
• Conducting ongoing risk assessments and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure programs remain current and appropriate
• Providing subject matter expertise, training, and outreach to the business functions in the Europe region to continually raise awareness and engagement on Europe programs
• Leading on the monitoring and reporting on relevant compliance updates including preparing high quality papers and briefing documents for Risk Committees and Boards
• Leading and developing a small high performing team and managing talent effectively
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships between the Europe E&C and key stakeholders across the organization, including globally

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

• Possess strong knowledge of various relevant European laws/regulations including the Interchange Fee Regulation, the Criminal Finance Act and the Bribery Act. Additionally, demonstrates the ability to quickly understand complex new areas and developments, such as the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
• Extensive experience of working in compliance or risk in the financial services industry, either in banking or payments, or in the legal and consulting industries which support these sectors
• Have experience of driving change and enhancements in programs as well as developing new programs
• Proven senior stakeholder management expertise including leading meetings with senior members of the organisation
• Can identify and solve problems, adapt quickly and has a proven track record of managing and delivering in a complex, fast paced matrix business which is results orientated
• Ability to take complex regulatory information and present it in an easily digestible manner due to excellent written, presentation and communication skills
• Proven ability to lead and develop a team of high performers
• Excellent analytical and data analysis skills including use of MS Office systems including Word, Visio, Excel (advanced), Power Point, SharePoint and other applications as well as an interest developing the use of AI

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.