Compliance Specialist

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Visa Full time

**Company Description**
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When partnering with Visa, you are also in a way part of a culture of purpose and belonging - where the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Visa Cross-Border Solutions** **offers deep money movement capabilities to organisations across the globe. Powered by Currencycloud technology, Visa Cross-Border Solutions enhances, streamlines and simplifies integrating the cross-border financial tools of tomorrow.

Clients can embed cross-border finance into the heart of their business and create sophisticated and user-friendly app-based experiences, connecting consumers and businesses around the world.

Since 2012, the technology behind Visa Cross-Border Solutions has been used to process more than $250bn to over 180 countries, partnering with banks, businesses and fintechs all over the world.

**Partner with Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

As a Compliance Specialist you will manage the day-to-day running of the Transaction Monitoring systems, ensuring that Compliance risks are adequately identified, assessed, monitored, controlled and reported as required.

**This will include but is not limited to**:

- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF)
- Economic or Financial Sanctions
- Payment Services, including the E-Money Directive

**The Details**
- Day to day Transaction Monitoring, identifying any potentially fraudulent or illegal activity. - Analyse payment and compliance data from multiple sources to identify trends and patterns.
- Proactively escalate urgent cases to the MLRO/DMLRO for further review. - Conduct screening on PEPs and sanctioned entities and investigate potential hits. - Support data-protection compliance.
- Work across teams and departments to proactively identify and resolve operational compliance queries.
- Complete Compliance administration (such as keeping client records up to date) as required.
- Review effectiveness of current monitoring rules and settings and provide feedback on ways to optimise.
- Continuously review current processes and suggest improvements to the processes as well as systems used.
- Keep up to date with current and future regulatory changes that affect the business and use this knowledge to proactively suggest improvements to compliance policies and procedures.

**Qualifications** Experience**
- Strong experience within Compliance, in particular Transaction Monitoring
- PEP / Sanction / Adverse Media screening
- SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) writing

**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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