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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nVisa’s Global Risk organization is seeking a Senior Manager to join its team to manage payment risks across West and Central Africa (WCA). As the face of Risk, the senior manager’s external obligation is to ensure Visa’s interactions with clients, partners, merchants, and other third parties on risk-related matters are well informed, effective, and collectively moving the Visa ecosystem towards a stronger state. Internally, the RM Manager’s obligation is to leverage our market knowledge and presence to ensure Visa’s risk-related policies, programs and frameworks are aligned with current and future business demands.\nThis individual contributor role requires frequent collaboration with internal stakeholders across DRC and French speaking countries within the WCA sub-region in CEMEA region.\nMarket Knowledge: Ensure deep awareness of the markets pulse, payment system and other risks to clients operating in each market, and the past and present tactics being deployed to mitigate these risks.\nBusiness Alignment: Align Visa’s risk-related objectives and activities with Visa’s business goals in the same area in order to maximize long-term growth.\nRelationship Management: Engage key stakeholders (clients, partners, law enforcement, government and others) to secure support for Visa’s goals and address identified risks.\nThought Leadership: Differentiate Visa through out-of-box thinking and demonstrating thought leadership to payment system stakeholders on risk issues, pulling from local, regional, and global sources.\nCommunication: Ensure strong communication and provide marketplace feedback around Visa’s risk related programs and policies, and other activities.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDevelop and execute client engagement plans and materials to help clients optimize fraud performance, mitigate fraud and data compromise events, promote stronger authentication and data security, and help enforce Visa’s external risk programs and policies. \nAlign Visa’s risk-related objectives and activities with Visa’s business goals in the same area to maximize long-term growth.\nPromote Visa Risk Products, Capabilities and Solutions within the assigned client’s portfolio to differentiate Visa in the Payments Ecosystem\nDrive customized risk engagements and provide focus to key clients, fintechs, merchants, and emerging payment stakeholders. \nDeliver client engagement plans and materials to help clients optimize fraud performance, determine the type and frequency of engagements. \nProvide Risk analytics support for the markets supported for existing clients & other stakeholder engagements.\nAs a risk expert, the role will collaborate with Central Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) Risk team members, client account executives, Merchant Sales and Acceptance (MS&A), Visa Rules, Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA), Data scientists, Product leaders and Visa Ethics & Compliance to deliver innovative risk strategies, fraud reduction opportunities and payment system intelligence.\nLead ad-hoc projects in support of overall risk and corporate initiatives. \nParticipate in market forums (e.g., clients, law enforcement, regulators, industry participants), and drive consumer awareness campaigns of payment system stakeholders to drive greater awareness and support for Visa’s payment system risk strategy.\nBe the point of reference in all risk-related engagement with regulatory and industry bodies.\nThis is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree (post-graduate qualifications preferred) with 8+ years of progressive experience working in the payment services / financial industry\nExperience in managing fraud risk, transaction monitoring, operations and suspicious transaction review.\nExperience with the credit risk landscape across the credit lifecycle.\nGood understanding of and experience with acquiring risk with hands-on application experience improving the acquiring risk posture of an entity.\nGood understanding of illegitimate transaction flow typologies, root causes, and key signs.\nManaged third-party risk assessment, responsibility for evaluating risk controls, and reviewer of risk control reporting in the organization.\nSelf-starter with excellent communication skills, both oral and written.\nAbility to drive results with multiple stakeholders and cultivate strong and trusted relationships with internal stakeholders, clients, partners, and regulators.\nFull professional proficiency in English and French (written and verbal)\n Preferred Qualifications\nStrong understanding of Digital Payment risks and current or emerging payment system risk trends across Middle East & Africa.\nExperience in managing fraud risk, transaction monitoring operations and credit operations.\nAbility to influence at mid to senior levels both internally and externally.\nExcellent written, oral and presentation skills and an ability to synthesize complex and technical information into clear recommendations on course of action.\nDetail orientation and strong analytical skills, willingness to think outside-the-box to offer new ways to approach old problems\nAbility to identify and pursue multiple initiatives simultaneously and deliver superior results.\nExperience determining when to escalate to management and identify the right stakeholders for decision making.\nExcellent collaboration and communications skills with experience in influencing, communicating and driving change through cross-functional groups, including the ability to build consensus across disparate views\nPositive, proactive, solution-oriented problem solver who gets things done within a matrix organization.\nExperience in preparing, reviewing, and delivering (concise) management level communications.\nStrong data analysis and problem-solving skills with demonstrated intellectual & analytical ability to summarize raw data to tell a simple story supported by data to management and partners.\nSelf-driven professional with a vision and passion to continuously raise the benchmark for self and the broader team.\nStrong attention to detail and achieving results, with an emphasis on being naturally curious and committed.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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