Payments Compliance Analyst - 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Visa
Wellington, Wellington
Full time
3 weeks ago

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Team Summary

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific (AUNZSP) is Visa's advisory division, working with Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants) on a broad range of key business initiatives including strategy, operational optimisation, customer engagement and overall business profitability.

VCA is made up of three services lines - Advisory, Data Science and Managed Services, the latter being the execution arm of VCA. Our Managed Services teams (also known as squads) are embedded on client sites leading long-term engagements and delivering value primarily through implementation and execution services. We deliver objectives from a shared value agenda but are also closely connected to the broader VCA team, sharing knowledge, and bringing the best of Visa to the client.

We are looking for a dedicated Manager for the role of Payments Compliance Analyst embedded with one of our valued clients based in Auckland or Wellington. This role is a 12-month fixed term contract.

Role Summary

As a Payments Compliance Analyst, you will play a key role supporting the Compliance Plan Lead, in ensuring that our client is compliant with the Payment Systems policy and standards. You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining compliance plans for all card schemes and Payments Industry. The Compliance Plans will provide an ongoing mechanism to evidence compliance and risk controls.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide analytical support for the development of our clients Card Scheme and Payments Industry Compliance Plans:

· Identify which rules manuals are in scope for each Scheme and Industry

· Manage the collation of applicable must-do rules, ensuring that rules duplicated across different manuals are cross-referenced where practical

· Collaborate with stakeholders to identify if rules are applicable to the current environment

· Reduce compliance plan assessment effort for business stakeholders, and reviewing merchant and cardholder agreements to confirm they contain content required by the rules

· Support the Senior Compliance Plan Lead to deliver the plan

· Maintain consistent structure of compliance plans

· Analyse obligation assessment information provided by stakeholders to ensure the full scope has been assessed.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of 3-days in the office and as confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Key Requirements

· Experience in Card Scheme Compliance and Payments Industry obligations is a must

· Proven banking experience, in a Business Analysis, Compliance or Risk role

· Knowledge of Bank processes, policies and procedures

· Tertiary qualification and/or relevant experience

· Strong, proven analytical skills with a keen attention to detail

· Well organised, excellent time management skills, self-managing

· Well-developed interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively

· Familiarity with Excel

· Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

Why this is important to Visa

This role will support a strategic and multi-dimensional client in New Zealand as a member of a growing team at Visa. This role will help to build the Visa Managed Services business in market, a scaling space that is in high demand from our clients. If you are a trailblazer willing to challenge the status quo, this is the role for you.

Projects you will be a part of:

The role will ideally be based in Auckland or Wellington in a hybrid work environment (minimum 3 days in office per week). As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable, and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analogue to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

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.

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