Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst - Audit and Compliance (GRC)

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

This hands-on Senior Cybersecurity Analyst position will serve as part of Visa's Cybersecurity Audit and Compliance (A&C) function within the Cybersecurity Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) team, reporting to Director/Sr. Director. This position will provide oversight, coordination, and delivering the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests while effectively balancing the individual elements of these activities.

This role will also assist with validating the ongoing effectiveness of Cybersecurity controls across Visa (both automated and manual), working with a variety of control owners within the Cybersecurity organization, and evaluating control design and standards in a variety of program areas. This position requires an individual that can effectively balance the individual elements of each of these activities, while keeping the overall program on track.

Essential Functions

• Provide oversight, coordination, and delivering the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests.

• Focus on PCI readiness (controls advisory /assessment) and support for annual PCI reviews across existing and new Visa entities.

• Assist with validating the ongoing effectiveness of Cybersecurity controls across Visa (both automated and manual), working with a variety of control owners within the Cybersecurity organization, and evaluating control design and standards in a variety of program areas. Responsible for developing clear and concise audit reports/work papers

• Work collaboratively with corporate compliance, internal audit, enterprise risk management, regulatory risk and various technical teams in the design and implementation of audit, regulatory, and compliance practices for Information Security

• Develop data points into Information Security risk management reporting activities, including dashboards, metrics, and executive reporting content

• Update Cybersecurity leadership on the status of technology risk and compliance issues based on assessment results and information from various monitoring and control systems.

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:
• 5+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or Business Administration or another related field.
o Significant and relevant technical experience meeting the job description may be substituted for degree requirements.
• 6+ years of work experience in Information Security, Audit, Risk, and/or Compliance.
o Open to experience in other relevant fields (i.e., finance, business administration, information technology, etc.) as long as candidate can demonstrate relevancy to this Information Security based role.
• 4+ years direct participation and experience across common industry security policy areas, including, but not limited to PCI-DSS, ISO, NIST, COSO, COBIT, FFIEC, SOX, SSAE16/ISAE3402, SOC 2 and others.
• Experience in Audit/Compliance/Regulatory discussions and proactive readiness activities in a large global financial institution or a matrix organization
• Exceptional communication skills - both written and verbal to support compliance and certification audits.
• Ability to synthesize a variety of data points, problem solve, and formulate comprehensive and effective execution and risk mitigation plans.
• Ability to influence beyond immediate team and with those of more experience / seniority
• Must be extremely flexible and able to manage multiple tasks and priorities on very tight deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Excellent Data Analysis skills using Microsoft Excel, SQL, or other scripting languages
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, PCI QSA/ISA Certifications preferred
• Experience in working with global teams spread across regions

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.