Description
The team at Visa is responsible for protecting the integrity, safety, and trust of the Visa payment ecosystem. They monitor and enforce risk and compliance programs that identify, investigate, and remediate behaviors that threaten the stability of the network, Visa clients, and end users.
This Senior Consultant role serves as a strategic analytics, intelligence, and program insights leader supporting Visa's ecosystem risk, compliance, and enforcement programs. The role is responsible for transforming complex operational, compliance, and ecosystem risk data into actionable intelligence that informs program strategy, executive decision-making, and enterprise risk management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership by providing analytics, intelligence, and insights on ecosystem risk, compliance, and enforcement programs.
- Develop executive-level reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and performance metrics that measure program effectiveness, business impact, risk reduction, and operational outcomes.
- Analyze compliance trends, enforcement outcomes, risk indicators, industry developments, and emerging threats to identify opportunities, vulnerabilities, and strategic priorities.
- Lead the development of executive briefing materials, governance presentations, business reviews, and strategic updates for senior leadership forums.
- Facilitate and manage recurring executive reviews, operating forums, and governance discussions related to ecosystem risk, compliance, and enforcement programs.
- Translate complex operational, regulatory, and risk data into clear, actionable business insights and recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Partner with program owners and regional teams to assess program health, measure business value, identify performance gaps, and recommend enhancements.
- Develop forecasting, capacity, investment, and business impact analyses to support strategic planning, resource allocation, and annual operating plan activities.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve reporting, analytics, metrics, and business intelligence capabilities across ecosystem risk programs.
- Consolidate intelligence across multiple risk, compliance, and enforcement programs to provide leadership with a holistic view of ecosystem threats, trends, and strategic opportunities.
- Support the development of program strategies, executive communications, business cases, and investment proposals through data-driven analysis and recommendations.
- Mentor team members and provide subject matter expertise on analytics, reporting, metrics development, and ecosystem risk intelligence.
This role is a Hybrid position to be based in our Atlanta, GA office location with expectations of being in office 3 days per week.
Qualifications:
- 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
- 7+ years of experience in payments, financial services, banking, risk management, compliance, analytics, consulting, business intelligence, audit, or a related field.
- Strong experience utilizing data and analytics to drive strategic decision-making, business planning, risk management, or operational improvement.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience synthesizing large and complex datasets into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Experience developing executive presentations, dashboards, scorecards, metrics, and strategic reporting for senior leadership audiences.
- Ability to communicate complex business, compliance, operational, and risk concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience working across global and cross-functional organizations.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and business intelligence tools.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Fluency in English required.