Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer

Company Description
**Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology? Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world? You will fit right in.**

By joining one of our teams at Visa Payments Limited, a division of Visa Inc since 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Being part of Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments technology, our mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

Visa Payments Limited is a financial technology business that provides cross-border payment processing services to banks and payments businesses across six continents through its global network.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team - we are proud that we are a talented team of 18,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life both within and outside of the office, and whether it is taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programmes, Visa Payments Limited and Visa Inc. respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone.

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

If you think you could support the Visa family by joining Visa Payments Limited as a Deputy MLRO, we want to hear from you.

**Job Description**:
**What’s it all about?**

Visa Payments Limited is a UK subsidiary within the Visa Group and we are seeking a Deputy MLRO to support the MLRO in managing our Anti-Money Laundering framework during an exciting time of significant business change.

The purpose of the Compliance Function is to assist senior management to effectively manage designated risks, and to support the business by being an expert trusted advisor, overseeing a robust, integrated and effective risk control framework.

Compliance has a remit to develop, implement, oversee and report on a compliance-risk control framework, working closely with the Visa Payments Risk Committee and Visa Payments Board.

The compliance-risk control framework includes financial crime compliance and regulatory compliance. Financial crime focus is on Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF), Sanctions & Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), and on the associated Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Customer’s Business (KYC/B) & Counterparty Due Diligence (CDD) obligations, including primarily but not limited to:
- On-boarding counterparty due diligence
- Transactional monitoring
- Sanctions screening
- Suspicious activity identification, monitoring and reporting

**What we expect of you, day to day.**

The Deputy MLRO reports to the MLRO and the position is registered with and approved by the FCA and HMRC. The Deputy MLRO works alongside and in support of the MLRO in oversight and management of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing regimes of Visa Payments Limited.

**Key Responsibilities**

Primary areas of responsibility include:

- Supporting the Nominated Officer (N.O.) as appropriate regarding Suspicious Activity Review management, PEP Reviews, Law Enforcement engagement & fraud management operations
- Manage and advise on AML/CTF and sanctions escalations across all areas of the VPL Compliance team
- Deputising for the MLRO in their absence
- Responding to any regulator requests for information or proactively engaging them when appropriate
- Leading Regulatory Diligence, (being the gatekeeper for Visa Payments pipeline liaising with sales, the wider business and working alongside the diligence manager
- Lead product changes to risk assess new frameworks alongside the MLRO.
- Support the resolution of all Compliance issues, queries and concerns, raised both internally (by other members of the business or team) and externally (by law enforcement and/or regulators particularly)
- May be required to take on additional regulatory role registrations globally and in accordance to Visa Payments international operations

Support the MLRO in their broader responsibilities:

- Delivery, maintenance and improvement of the relevant compliance-risk control framework(s)
- Ensure compliance with relevant local legislation and any applicable local compliance acceptance criteria, as defined by the board
- Ensure further compliance with international legislation and whereby Visa Payments holds additional registrations with other regulators / Financial Intelligence Units
- Oversight and ensuring business-wide training in all matters of relevant financial crime compliance
- Provide management, leadership and direction to the compliance function as required
- Deliver change that matures the compliance function while continuing the BAU agenda
- Manage operational aspects of compliance activities, including scalability planning
- Oversee alignment of VPL’s AML/C