Sr. Project Analyst - Cybersecurity & Compliance

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 you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and 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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

- Drive the coordinated management of all Security findings and exceptions for the Payment Product Development division, facilitate triaging, and ensure that either remediation occur or exceptions are filed, prior to their Required Remediation Date (RRD). 

- Drive remediation planning, governance, and risk mitigation strategies and solutions for the Payment Product Development teams as required, with a focus to reduce the overall number of Security findings, exceptions, and the duration to remediate. 

- Serve as a first point of contact for Cybersecurity, Risk, and Operations for any new products/processes being rolled out within the division and provide expertise and leadership in how those products are implemented. 

- Enable cross-team communications with developers, Security Architects, PEN Testers, Security Assessors, Risk and Governance teams. 

- Promote and support Cybersecurity as an enabler of Payment Product Development’s core business processes, educating the teams on Security findings, vulnerabilities, remediation, systems, processes, security programs, etc. 

- Prescribe security improvements for Payment Products Development environments to resolve or mitigate security findings or otherwise enhance security posture to achieve compliance with all security initiatives. 

- Contribute to best practice findings, checklists, templates, development methods, testing methods, techniques to support and advance a best of breed Security conscientious program. 

- Monitor and communicate the overall health of the Security program within Payment Product Development - the status, risks, issues and dependencies. Resolve roadblocks to enable successful remediation. 

- Help define and capture development and delivery of security metrics (e.g., dashboards, reports) which consolidate all finding sources and data. 

- Respond to urgent issues at any time and escalate them as required.

- Oversight and participation in selective audits underway within Payment Product Development – tracking outstanding documentation requests, reporting on overall status, and working with the various internal and external audit teams with a target to deliver all document requests on time and achieve zero audit findings. 

- Oversight of selective Compliance, Risk, Governance, Recovery, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Operating Level Agreements (OLAs) gaps within Payment Product Development – tracking and reporting on gaps and progress and working with the various internal teams to remediate. 

- Build an extensive network of positive relationships throughout Visa and its technology organizations to be leveraged to accomplish the broad requirements of this position. 

- Contribute to innovation efforts to increase efficiencies and automate manual processes as appropriate. 

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Security, Cybersecurity, CIS/MIS, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 8+ years of IT experience in large, highly-regulated organizations.
- Technical IT Security and Software Development experience is required.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity best practices including principles, security protocols and standards.
- Understanding of common cyber threat terminology, vulnerability and penetration test methodologies.
- Strong ability to lead, coordinate, and motivate multi-disciplinary teams across organizational boundaries, in a fast-paced, change intensive environment.
- Exceptional critical thinking skills with the ability to quickly comprehend complex problems, draw logical conclusions, make sound decisions, develop solutions, and negotiate and respond accordingly to drive closure of complex challenges.
- Proven history of being a self-starter by proactively identifying problems, determining pragmatic solutions, identifying and obtaining needed resources, and executing with little or no supervision.
- Articulate communicator, demonstrating mastery of both spoken and written English, with the professional confidence and credibility to effectively engage and interact with senior management.
- Professional experience within financial services, banking, or critical infrastructure organizations.
- Advanced Information Security certifications a big plus.

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.