Compliance Analyst, Diligence

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What’s it all about?

Visa Payments Limited (Visa Payments) is a UK subsidiary within the Visa Group and are seeking a Compliance Analyst to join our Due Diligence team during an exciting time of significant business change. The purpose of the Compliance Function is to assist senior management to effectively manage designated risks, and to support the business by being an expert trusted advisor, overseeing a robust, integrated, and effective risk control framework.

Compliance has a remit to develop, implement, oversee, and report on a compliance-risk control framework, working closely with the Visa Payments Risk Committee and Visa Payments Board.

The compliance-risk control framework includes financial crime compliance and regulatory compliance. Financial crime focus is on Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF), Sanctions & Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), and on the associated Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Customer’s Business (KYC/B) & Counterparty Due Diligence (CDD) obligations, including primarily but not limited to: -

• Periodic & Trigger based counterparty due diligence
• Counterparty due diligence queries on Visa Payments
• Transactional monitoring
• Sanctions screening & Open-Source investigations
• Suspicious activity identification, monitoring and reporting
• On-boarding counterparty due diligence

What we expect of you, day to day.

The Compliance Analyst sits within the Visa Payments Compliance (VPC) due diligence team and is responsible for conducting AML/KYC in accordance with Regulatory requirements and Policies Procedures of Visa Payments. In this role you will play a key part in conducting periodic and trigger reviews on counterparties, as well as supporting the compliance function within Visa Payments.

Key Responsibilities

Primary areas of responsibility include:

• Perform periodic and trigger-based reviews of counterparties, collaborate with relationship managers to gather necessary KYC information and documents, ensuring continuous adherence with our policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Perform Sanctions, PEP, Adverse Media screening, and open-source checks as part of counterparty due diligence and manage daily alerts from continuous counterparty screening.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and assist in resolving issues related to client types, structures, AML/CTF risks, or actual or suspected sanctions matches.
• Ensure internal SLAs and deadlines are met.
• Oversee the Due Diligence inbox, prioritising, and routing requests to ensure both internal and external inquiries are handled promptly and efficiently.
• Ensure compliance with documentation requirements, conduct AML checks on new and existing clients, execute KYC analysis, compile review-ready reports for approval in line with policies and procedures.
• Represent the Due Diligence team in internal and external meetings as necessary.
• Ensuring clients are within legal parameters and not undertaking ML or criminal activities. For example, using screening and monitoring systems to assess client legitimacy.
• Promoting and providing advice on best compliance practice within critical business areas.
• Conduct comprehensive due diligence during the onboarding process for Financial Institutions (FIs) and Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFIs), ensuring all necessary checks and verifications are completed in line with our policies and procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Exemplifying the company values and promoting them in all areas of the role, within and without the function.
• Assist in the development and implementation of new controls and procedures to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our due diligence process.
• Contribute to the training and development of other team members, sharing knowledge and best practices in due diligence and compliance.
• Assist with the development of management information in alignment with regulatory and internal policy/risk expectations.
• Provide support in carrying out ad-hoc projects as needed.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications

2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)



Preferred Qualifications

3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)



Education

•Ideally educated to degree level and/or related professional qualifications (e.g. International Compliance Association Certificates and/or Diplomas)

Experience

•3+ years’ experience in a related environment (payments/FX industry, compliance, regulation, enforcement)

•Specific experience related to Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Know Your Business (KYB) practices, ideally on large corporate entities, financial institutions, and NBFIs

•Proven experience and understanding of assessing risk and identifying mitigation.

•Understanding of risk, risk assessment, control frameworks and risk mitigation.

•Experience in correspondent banking, wallets, and virtual currency sectors is highly desirable.



Skills

•Self-motivated & high level of initiative

•Stakeholder management

•Delivery mindset

•Control framework development, delivery and maintenance.

•Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

•Accuracy and attention to detail

•Flexible problem-solving attitude

•Courteous & adaptable team player capable of effective collaboration within a diverse group

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.