Risk Manager

Visa; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 367,000 - 478,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global payments technology company is seeking a Manager for the Product and Payment Services Risk organization. The role involves optimizing the Product Risk Review cycle and improving risk management capabilities in a hybrid working environment. Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree, with strong skills in risk management and analytical problem-solving.

Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 2 years with an Advanced degree, or 0 years with a PhD.
• Collaborative personality with experience managing deliverables across global and regional teams.
• Strong analytical process and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end operating rhythm of Product Risk Review cycle.
• Support risk identification, assessment, and treatment.
• Provide post-review support to initiative-owners for PRR.

Skills

Risk Management

Financial Services

Cybersecurity

Root cause Analysis

Information Security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

MS Word

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

Job description

The Product and Payment Services Risk (PPSR) organization at Visa is focused on managing risks inherent in product builds pipeline and portfolio execution covering Visas strategic pillars and underlying business units - Value Added Services (VAS) Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) and Product and Solutions.

The Manager PPSR CEMEA is responsible for supporting continually improving risk management capability and risk profile working with respective business and product teams.

Responsibilities

Drive and optimize end-to-end operating rhythm of Product Risk Review (PRR) cycle for CEMEA initiatives. This includes engaging and enabling (instead of doing on behalf of) the first-line stakeholders in VAS CMS and Product and Solutions to submit good quality as well as timely PRRs monitoring SLAs and escalating roadblocks.

Work closely with first-line stakeholders to support risk identification assessment and treatment instilling cycle-time discipline and rigor within the PRR process.

Provide post-review support to initiative-owners to track fulfillment of all PRR conditions on time.

Identify and drive process improvement initiatives to drive greater efficiency through the PRR process.

Lead the UAT and other tests to enhance the PRR systems and tools. Provide timely feedback and elevate to line management as necessary.

Prepare regular reports and management updates on PRR.

Provide support for all Global initiatives for PRR.

Coordinate review of Global PRR within CEMEA with timely escalation to line management in case of delays.

Prepare own and manage all the education materials for PRR.

Collaborate with first line stakeholders to drive compliance with key risk programs (incl. RCSA TLMP MRM ViDA).

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

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBAJD MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in sciences or business field
• 5 years of relevant Risk experience with a financial institution.
• Hands-on risk management experience as a team member in a risk function (e.g. Credit Underwriting and Credit Risk Policy) with a financial institution.
• Proven experience in managing operations and assessing risk of a product or a solution across multiple enterprise risk dimensions like credit operational reputational regulatory etc.
• Collaborative personality with experience managing deliverables across globaland regional teams.
• Demonstrated analytical process and problem-solving skills with strong results orientation.
• Proven ability to accomplish results and exercise influence in a large global matrix organization.
• Clear thinker with strong technical and data analysis skills plus solid management and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in MS Word Excel Access PowerPoint IBM Open Pages (GoRO)

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.

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time

Key Skills

• Arm
• Risk Management
• Financial Services
• Cybersecurity
• COSO
• PCI
• Root cause Analysis
• COBIT
• NIST Standards
• SOX
• Information Security
• RMF