Compliance Director, Visa Rules and Compliance

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Client Support Services

Company Description

Visa 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.

Job Description

Client Services works with issuers, acquirers, processors and merchants worldwide to develop and deliver the support model for Visa Inc. This includes day-to-day operations and product support, back office support and customer performance reporting. Client Services includes the Rules and Compliance function, which supports the structural foundation of the Visa Payments network. 

Rules and Compliance ensures the safety, security and integrity of the payment system and supports Visa clients in the development of their electronic payments business. Specifically, the Rules and Compliance team establishes and enforces common interoperable rules and standards for our products and services by which clients must operate their Visa programs. 

Role:

This is an operational manager role responsible for managing proactive global programs and maintaining operational efficiencies and quality in the Compliance team. This role manages a professional staff of up to four Consultants and Analysts and is responsible for delivering upon business, production and/or organizational priorities.

Under the leadership of this role, the Compliance team ensures Clients adhere to the regulations and monitor, investigate and validate the compliance status of Clients. Where necessary, they pursue corrective & negotiated action with the Clients, using discretion within the regulatory framework, while assessing the impact on the Visa brand, the integrity of the network, the client’s businesses and the feasibility of suggested remedial action.

This position can be based in the Philippines or any Visa Global Office location.

Essential Functions:

This role is responsible for the management of one of the Global Visa Rules and Compliance teams. The position may manage existing programs or create and manage new programs. Programs that may be managed by this role include Marketplace, Payment Facilitators, Merchant Location, Cross Border Acceptance, Digital Wallet, and / or various Data Quality programs. Programs managed by this role may change over time based on Visa’s Compliance needs. The jobholder will ensure that the workflow is managed within agreed time commitments and quality parameters and may manage problems that are occasionally undefined and significantly complex.

The role works collaboratively with the Rules and Compliance leadership group to address common policy, operational, systems and strategic needs.

This role also manages internal and external relations within the context of compliance negotiations and enforcement (Non-Compliance Assessments (NCAs)), including the escalation process where appropriate, with the intention of ensuring minimal brand and reputational risk exposure to Visa Inc. The role operates with senior Visa Inc. staff, as well as senior level officers of Clients, to facilitate compliance with the Visa Rules and/or impose NCAs to enforce compliance.

The role is responsible and accountable for:

  • Assist Rules and Compliance senior management in the preparation & execution of annual strategy, objectives & tracking.
  • Manage assigned Compliance team to ensure workload prioritization and balance, SLA alignment, objectives and milestone dates are met.
  • Responsible for staff recruitment, on-boarding, engagement, recognition and coaching / mentoring.
  • Conduct staff performance reviews, provide on-going feedback and coaching and direct the professional development / department commitment of staff.
  • Act as escalation point for 1st level exception and client issues; keep management informed on a timely basis and support global cohesiveness in problem-solving.
  • Oversee operational control points, such as Non-Compliance Assessments (NCAs) imposition, and other agreed reporting.
  • Identify opportunities, develop and conduct awareness building and training for key internal and external clients on Rules and Compliance processes and procedures.
  • Form collaborative relationships with key internal clients – such as Sales / Business Development teams, Acceptance, Legal, Risk, Account Management, and other Client Services counterparts to ensure communication channels and processes function smoothly.
  • Identify operational and strategic opportunities to increase service quality, efficiency or employee satisfaction and makes recommendations accordingly; work with Rules and Compliance leadership teams to effect change.
  • Responsible and accountable for negotiating complex compliance action plans with Clients at senior officer level, using discretion within the regulatory framework. 
  • Provide staff direction, with respect to creating and implementing standard compliance solutions that meet regulatory and strategic compliance objectives of Visa Inc. and its Clients with respect to the Visa By-Laws, and Rules and associated subsidiary manuals.
  • Responsible for ensuring all management information statistics, performance criteria and trends relating to Compliance processing are collated, analyzed, published and fed back to team members to help define compliance strategy for Visa Inc. globally and regionally.
  • Provide Clients and staff with accurate interpretation and analysis of Visa Rules in response to telephone or written inquiries and/or proposed Client or Merchant activities, and as a full project team member for assigned projects as required. 
  • Provision of advice and interpretation on all regulatory matters, as codified in the Visa Charter Documents and Rules to Clients and staff.
  • Tracking and control of Compliance actions plans as submitted by Clients ensuring they are tracked to resolution.
  • Participate in the development of the Visa Rules and Compliance training for staff.

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors/Degree or equivalent experience; Minimum of 12+ years progressively responsible experience in financial services, payment card, banking, audit or compliance is required.


Preferred Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills and proven abilities in negotiating with and influencing customers and staff at all levels, including strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Excellent writing skills to convey complex topics in “Plain English”.
• Strong analytical aptitude and demonstrated track record of working with data to develop business oriented solutions as well as the ability to apply sound business analysis to limit the downstream impact of decisions.
• Proven project management skills to co-ordinate divergent interests, commensurate with managing a multi-faceted compliance program at an international level.
• Ability to represent technical and business issues and solutions to multiple levels internally and externally to support strategic organizational plans.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office. SharePoint and Visio a plus.
• Excellent research and analytical skills.
• Experience working cross-culturally and in remote situations.
• Exhibit advanced planning, organizational and problem solving skills.
• Ability to set priorities and manage expectations, and work both as part of a team and independently.
• Visa experience or in-depth knowledge of the payment solutions industry is highly desired.
• Extensive experience with Visa, a Regulatory Body, a Card Membership Organization or other Financial Industry body. Knowledge of the Visa Rules highly desired.
• Multi-lingual capability is a plus.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a Covid-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the Philippines who are required to work on-site are required to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or is as otherwise required by law.
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