Associate Compliance Analyst

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.

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Job Description

What’s it all about?

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: -

 

• On-boarding counterparty due diligence

• Transactional monitoring

• Sanctions screening

• Suspicious activity identification, monitoring and reporting

 

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Develop an understanding of Visa Payments business operations and payment processes
• Identify and internally escalate actual or suspected sanctions matches, assisting and supporting other analysts within the team
• Ensure sanction queries are sent in a timely manner in line with our internal SLAs and deadlines set
• Identify trends and use data to suggest improvements to effectively resolve service issues, escalating appropriately.
• Assist with the development of management information in alignment with regulatory and internal policy/risk expectations
• Assist with the review of new controls to mitigate risks and reduce false positives to improve efficiency across the team.

And assist

• Ensuring clients are within legal parameters and not undertaking ML or criminal activities. For example, using screening and monitoring systems to assess client legitimacy.
• Identifying, managing & escalating suspected and actual money laundering, sanctions breaches and fraud cases through the relevant escalation path.
• Ensuring the compliance risk control framework remains aligned with external legislation.
• Conducting and/or overseeing compliance monitoring reviews and audits.
• Promoting and providing advice on best compliance practice within critical business areas.
• Exemplifying the company values and promoting them in all areas of the role, within and without the function.

 

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

What we’re after…Education • Specific

qualifications

are not detailed. All

qualifications

offered will be considered regarding their applicability (e.g. GCSE’s, ‘A’ levels, Vocational

Qualifications

etc.)Experience • Previous experience in financial/corporate sector payments, FX and/or compliance
• Understanding of IT systems, operational and/or product development payment processes, especially in e-Commerce environments for retail and/or corporate payments Your Personal Attributes • Courteous and friendly nature (team player)
• Strong communication skills, written and oral
• Recognises the importance of attention to detail (regulatory environment)
• Motivated to learn
• Able to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines
• Ability to follow a process driven task

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.

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.