Risk Partner, Senior Manager

About Us 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.

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Job Description The Senior Risk Manager – Risk Business 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 delivering high‑quality risk insights to senior governance forums, leading deep‑dive reviews into high‑impact and emerging risks, influencing SVPs and the VEL Executive Leadership Team through data‑driven analysis, and embedding strong risk ownership and culture across the business. The role collaborates closely with regional and global Risk teams, uses MI and metrics to track progress against desired outcomes, supports and develops colleagues, and contributes to building a best‑in‑class Risk function recognised as expert, commercially aware, proactive, solutions‑focused, and constructive in its challenge.

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

Qualifications Expert understanding and experience of risk management practices 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 Knowledge and experience of Visa Europe payment system, its governance principles and Visa Europe’s compliance framework Track record in synthesizing complex information to produce impactful management information and analysis, and support informed executive decision making Knowledge and understanding of relevant regulation Understanding of business strategy, clients and their evolving requirements Proven ability to build teams into cohesive, efficient and value adding entities that continually strive to achieve the best possible results 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

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.