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Job Description
As a** **Risk Manager, for our Currency Cloud BV business, you’ll sit at the heart of our Dutch entity, helping to strengthen risk oversight, influence decision-making, and embed a strong risk culture across the organisation. This is a unique opportunity to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution - partnering closely with stakeholders across Visa globally.
You will bring a strong foundation in risk management, combined with the confidence and credibility to influence stakeholders at all levels. You will thrive in a collaborative, global environment and enjoy balancing detail with strategic impact.
What you’ll be doing
In this role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to the business, ensuring risks are identified, understood, and effectively managed in line with our risk appetite.
You will:
- Lead risk oversight for Currencycloud BV, ensuring strong governance, control frameworks, and alignment with Visa’s enterprise risk framework
- Drive a strong risk culture, partnering cross-functionally (Risk, Legal, Compliance, Audit, and business teams) to identify, challenge, and mitigate risk
- Oversee risk management activities, including risk assessments (RCSA), incident and issue management, and enterprise risk programmes (e.g., Supplier Risk, Product and Compliance Risk)
- Monitor and report risk exposure, maintaining risk registers and KRIs, and providing insights to senior leadership and governance forums, including the Board
- Strengthen controls and compliance, through policy oversight, control testing, and continuous improvement of control design and effectiveness
- Build risk capability across the business, delivering training and guidance to enhance awareness and best practice
We are currently operating a hybrid work policy, with the expectation being 3 days per week in the Amsterdam office.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of risk management practices: experience in identifying, assessing, managing and reporting risk, gained across different risk types
- Strong understanding of Financial, Regulatory, Compliance and Technology related risks
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant regulation and experience of working with regulators
- A good understanding of the payments industry and financial services, payment products and services, and of wider economic / competitive landscape
- Degree-level education in Accounting, Finance, or Business is desirable; however, equivalent professional experience will be equally valued
- Experience in collaborating cross-functionally to ensure risk assessments are comprehensive
- Display effective communication skills to advise and influence Heads of functions, Senior Directors, and other leadership team members across Visa Direct.
- Capability to recognize and understand root causes, patterns, or trends across a broad spectrum of activity that could result in risk to the organization
- Produce impactful management information and support informed executive decision making
- Clear thinker with strong technical and data analysis skills, plus solid business acumen, management, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to quickly understand complex and fast-moving topics and identify key points and go forward plans with limited information
- Champion the establishment of training and awareness programs to build general acumen on processes, risks, and controls standards
- Experience in the effective use of Risk management tools
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint
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.