Senior Manager Risk Partner

Job Description

The Senior Manager Risk Partner (Risk Strategy, Supervisory & Optimisation) plays a critical role in delivering Visa Europe’s 2030 Strategy by acting as a trusted second‑line risk advisor to key commercial and functional leaders.

The role provides independent challenge, oversight, and strategic insight in line with the Three Lines of Defence model, ensuring risks are identified, managed, and escalated to support confident decision‑making and sustainable growth.

Responsibilities include;

• Serve as Risk Advisor VEL for key business functions, collaborating across regions with VPs and SVPs—including Global Risk—to consistently execute and communicate the Visa 2030 strategy internally and to clients.
• Provide Visa Europe members and their business partners with authoritative intelligence to guide their risk mitigation efforts/investment decisions. Provide management information on specific threats.
• Form SVPs and VP relationships across VEL to develop an in-depth understanding of the business and functional risks. Provide recommendations to tailor the existing client lifecycle to meet specific risks associated
• Lead, manage and deliver multiple concurrent high visibility sensitive projects and direct time and resources (capacity planning) to achieve the best possible outcome.
• Develop awareness of the wider regulatory environment and key external developments for the new payments flow sector including any events that may require legal consideration, reg engagement or a change to Visa Rules.
• Write reports and proposals to key audiences, Risk Committee (ERC), Board Risk Committee (BRC) Regulators (e.g. Bank of England, ECB etc) outlining key progress/trends/findings emerging from due diligence activities and assurances
• Report to Risk leadership when required on relevant risk strategies.
• Ensure that senior executives within Visa have timely and accurate information on which to base decisions.

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

Qualifications

• Deep technical understanding of enterprise and operational risk frameworks, including RCSA, emerging risk analysis, and issue management in financial services.
• Expert of the wider European payments and / or financial services industry and the major trends affecting executive level leaders (VP, SVPs), including the regulatory, political and market environment, payment products and services, economic and competitive landscape technology and the rising threat of data breaches
• Track record in synthesising complex information to produce impactful management information and analysis, and support informed executive decision making
• Understanding of business strategy, clients and their evolving requirements
• Proven ability to build credible-long term effective working relationships, both internally and externally
• Experienced in preparing/reviewing/delivering executive level communications, both written and oral
• Control / corporate functional experience (Finance, Risk & Regulatory, Legal, Compliance)
• Sound knowledge and experience of law in relation to the payments environment and ideally have had experience in working with law enforcement/judiciary and Court proceedings

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.