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Position Summary – Make a Difference. Join Visa’s newly formed, cutting-edge Risk Operations Center (ROC). The ROC is a critical priority of executive leadership and focuses on the fast identification and mitigation of high impact fraud attempts in the global payment ecosystem. This team operates 24/7 working 12-hour shifts.

The Associate Risk Operations Analyst is a high visibility and demanding role, responsible for the detection and disruption of fraud events identified by the Risk Operations Center - a key component of Global Risk's Payment Fraud Disruption organization. This position is responsible for identification and mitigation of any payments-based attack affecting Visa’s clients or brand. Payment Fraud Disruption is a fast-paced team of technology experts who identify, investigate, disrupt, and prevent attacks targeting the global payment ecosystem. This position will be responsible for all aspects of monitoring, incident review, escalation, and documentation of alerts. This position reports to the Senior Director of the Risk Operations Center.

Note: This position requires shift work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform analytics of complex data models to evaluate legitimacy of transactional logs
• Monitor and respond to a wide variety of proprietary Visa solutions used to identify potential fraud and risk-based activity that may impact Visa and our clients
• Ensure incidents are escalated to the proper support teams for validation and mitigation based on the identification of possible threats
• Coordinate incident handling with regional Risk groups and take decisive action on events, alerts etc.
• Accurately assess impact of critical/major incidents
• Serve as a first responder for all of Visa fraud alerting platforms
• Capture key metrics for the Risk Operations Center to ensure goals related to these metrics are met.
• Collaborate with the Visa teams and clients during fraud events to provide real time status and decision making
• Self-driven individual who can multitask and complete varying risk projects.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience in payment fraud or cybersecurity e.g.,
cybercrime fraud and/or ethical hacking
• Flexibility to work in shifts, during weekends (including holidays), and
extended hours as needed
• Proven experience collaborating in a team within a 24x7 Operations Center
• Passion for fraud schemes and cybercrime investigations
• Knowledge of transactions, systems processing transactions, and overall
transaction process
• Prior experience with data analytics, visualization tools, and concepts
• Understanding of payments process, cybercrime, and fraud techniques
• Direct experience with VisaNet, ISO 8583, transaction routing, VCMS, Base I
and Base II platforms
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills and an ability to synthesize
information and make clear, concise recommendations on course of action
• Detail oriented problem solver.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.