Risk Manager- South Cone

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**:
The Risk Manager will be responsible for market and client fraud performance, insights and risk success measures. The position will be working closely with various key internal and external stakeholders including issuers, acquirers, merchants and processors to ensure secure business growth, by mitigating risks to the Visa payment system. The Risk Manager will also work collaboratively with global and local teams to develop, execute, and evaluate our in-country Enterprise Risk Management, Ecosystem Risk and Payment Risk Initiatives.

The Risk Manager will be involved in developing and influencing client adoption of risk reduction strategies and promoting Visa’s Payment Security roadmap in South Cone. To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who is mature, able to work independently to drive strong initiatives, yet a good team player who is self-motivated and adept at working collaboratively with the rest of the team globally and regionally. The highly matrix environment in Visa requires the individual to be collaborative with the ability to identify issues and to assess them and finally presenting to stakeholders and management with a clear point of view.

**Primary Responsibilities**
- Ensure secure business growth, while providing fact-based market insights and strategic thought-leadership to assist Visa clients in managing their fraud risk, allowing balanced customer experience and operational metrics.
- Identify in-market risks for Visa and take actions to mitigate them, including executing in-country enterprise risk management programs.
- Acting as Subject Matter Expert with clients and help troubleshoot problems.
- Collaborate to create and implement risk management roadmaps for the market, identifying methods to reduce and mitigate payment system risk, fraud and cardholder data security risks.
- Work closely and guide the country’s leadership to evaluate new Visa clients, to establish market and client plans, prioritizing activities, promote domestic processing and to promote adoption of Visa’s fraud reduction tools and authentication solutions.
- Partnering with Product Specialists and Client Services Account Managers to promote adoption and optimize the use of Visa fraud tools by client Issuers.
- Preparing advanced reports and develop complex analysis for Visa and external stakeholders.

The Risk Manager will be responsible for market and client fraud performance, insights and risk success measures. The position will be working closely with various key internal and external stakeholders including issuers, acquirers, merchants and processors to ensure secure business growth, by mitigating risks to the Visa payment system. The Risk Manager will also work collaboratively with global and local teams to develop, execute, and evaluate our in-country Enterprise Risk Management, Ecosystem Risk and Payment Risk Initiatives.

The Risk Manager will be involved in developing and influencing client adoption of risk reduction strategies and promoting Visa’s Payment Security roadmap in South Cone. To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who is mature, able to work independently to drive strong initiatives, yet a good team player who is self-motivated and adept at working collaboratively with the rest of the team globally and regionally. The highly matrix environment in Visa requires the individual to be collaborative with the ability to identify issues and to assess them and finally presenting to stakeholders and management with a clear point of view.

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**:
Basic Qualifications
- 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

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