# Senior Risk Manager, Central Europe

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Frankfurt
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As Senior Risk Manager, Central Europe, you will play a critical role in protecting the integrity, trust, and resilience of the payments ecosystem across Central Europe (CE).

You will lead Strategic Risk Management and Ecosystem Risk (Fraud and Data Security) for Central European markets and strategic clients, partnering closely with Visa’s regional leadership, product teams, data & analytics, government engagement, and regulatory stakeholders.

This role combines deep subject‑matter expertise in fraud and payments risk with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, translate complex risk into clear business insights and embed risk capabilities that enable safe growth and innovation.

Key responsibilities include:

- Support delivery of Visa’s risk strategy for Central European strategic clients, helping them strengthen fraud mitigation, secure controls and ecosystem resilience.

- Work closely with the Cluster Risk Managers, Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA), Product, Government Engagement and regulatory teams to advance a trusted and secure payments environment across multiple European markets.

- Maintain awareness of emerging risks, regulatory developments and ecosystem trends affecting Central Europe.

- Support internal and external risk management programs, including key client risk reviews and risk forums.

- Act as a trusted risk advisor to Visa’s Central European Country Managers, market executive teams, and hub and global functional leads on strategies related to complex operational, financial, legal and regulatory risk exposures.

- Provide guidance to clients on fraud prevention, secure technology, dispute/fraud trends and payment integrity.

- Promote and support client adoption of Visa risk and fraud solutions, tools and best practices.

- Help assess and communicate the implications of new payment models, innovations and business strategies.

- Assist in the management and coordination of significant fraud events and data breach activities for CE clients.

- Liaise with Visa security and fraud SMEs, as well as client risk leads, to support timely response and resolution.

- Support business development and embedding of Visa’s fraud services by articulating the current risk control environment and identifying new or emerging risks.

- Contribute to risk thought leadership, client education and ecosystem-wide risk awareness initiatives.

- Form key stakeholder relationships across Visa Europe and global functions to develop an in-depth understanding of the current end-to-end risk client lifecycle.

- Work with Data & Analytics teams to analyse fraud trends, identify root causes and propose mitigation actions.

- Prepare concise risk reports, dashboards and briefings for senior stakeholders and client leadership.

- Synthesise complex data and market intelligence to inform strategy execution and product improvements.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is not provided, but may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Pension, Life Insurance, Annual Leave, and Wellness Program.

## Skills

### Required
- Risk Management
- Fraud prevention
- Payments risk
- Data Security
- Cyber-risk concepts
- Analytical capability
- Communication
- Influencing
- Stakeholder-management

### Nice to have
- Incident response
- Fraud event handling
- Regulatory engagement
- CISSP
- Security +
- CEH
- CFE

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