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Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Job Description and Responsibilities

Company Description

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Position Summary – Make a Difference. Join Visa’s newly formed, cutting-edge Risk Operations Center (ROC). The ROC is a critical priority of executive leadership and focuses on the fast identification and mitigation of high impact fraud attempts in the global payment ecosystem. This team will operate 24/7 working 9-hour shifts. The schedule will be biweekly.

The Risk Operations Analyst is a high visibility and demanding role, responsible for the detection and disruption of fraud events identified by the Risk Operations Center- a key component of Global Risk's Payment Fraud Disruption organization. This position is responsible for identification and mitigation of any payments-based attack affecting Visa’s clients or brand. Payment Fraud Disruption is a fast-paced team of technology experts who identify, investigate, disrupt, and prevent attacks targeting the global payment ecosystem. This position will be responsible for all aspects of monitoring, alert development, incident review, escalation, and documentation of alerts. This position reports to the Senior Director of the Risk Operations Center.

Note: This position requires shift work.

Primary responsibilities:

Excellent written, oral and presentation skills and an ability to synthesize information and make clear, concise recommendations on course of action
Perform analytics of complex data models to evaluate legitimacy of transactional logs
Detail oriented problem solver - monitor and respond to a wide variety of proprietary Visa solutions used to identify potential fraud and risk-based activity that may impact Visa and our clients
Ensure incidents are escalated to the proper support teams for validation and mitigation based on the identification of possible threats
Coordinate incident handling with regional Risk groups and take decisive action on events, alerts etc.
Accurately assess impact of critical/major incidents
Identify compromised merchants through varying forms of cyber intelligence and
Server as a first responder for all of Visa fraud alerting platforms
Capture key metrics for the Risk Operations Center to ensure goals related to these metrics are met.
Create detailed reports on internal incident response measures of success
Collaborate with the Visa teams and clients during fraud events to provide real time status and decision making
Self-driven individual who can multitask and complete varying risk projects

Secondary Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Payment Systems Intelligence to recognize and implement measures to identify and disrupt current fraud and cybercrime threats to the payments ecosystem and communicate them to relevant stakeholders
Provide technical analysis support to the Global Risk organization to protect the payment ecosystem
Identify opportunities for process improvements, system enhancements, and procedural changes


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

Qualifications

Required:

Minimum 5 years of experience in payment fraud or cybersecurity e.g. cybercrime fraud and/or ethical hacking
Flexibility to work in shifts, during weekends (including holidays), and extended hours as needed
Proven experience collaborating in a team within a 24x7 Operations Center
Passion for fraud schemes and cybercrime investigations
Knowledge of transactions, systems processing transactions, and overall transaction process
Understanding of networks, risk management, network security, and security operations
Prior experience with data analytics, visualization tools and concepts
Understanding of payments process, cybercrime, and fraud techniques

Design reports with meaningful trends and fraud stats

Undergraduate degree or commensurate experience required, graduate degree preferred
Familiarity with Data Loss Prevention and Anti-Virus technologies
Strong understanding of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, and their associated exploitation methodologies.

Preferred:

Direct experience with VisaNet, ISO 8583, transaction routing, VCMS, Base I and Base II platforms
Familiarity with intelligence databases and analytical tools or similar intelligence reporting systems
Analysis of cyber threat intelligence and fraud intelligence
CISSP, CHFI, CEH, GIAC certifications

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.