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.
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Job Description This position is part of Payment Systems Intelligence (PSI) - a key component of Global Risk's Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) team.
PFD's team of technology experts are vital to Visa's efforts to identify, investigate, disrupt, and prevent attacks targeting the global payment ecosystem. This Analyst role will support Visa Account Attack Intelligence (VAAI), a capability within Payment Systems Intelligence.
Visa Account Attack Intelligence (VAAI) uses cutting edge machine learning to identify enumeration, the fraud practice of submitting card not present transactions into the payments ecosystem in order to obtain and validate payment information. VAAI analyzes the details of the attack and enables Visa to take appropriate action in near real time.
Responsibilities include executing strategies, engaging clients globally, and successfully executing against the client engagement plan. In addition, as a part of the PSI team, the Analyst will identify new and novel methods that fraudsters are using to target Visa clients and the ecosystem and develop innovative approaches to disrupt emerging fraud and security vulnerabilities affecting Visa clients and the payments ecosystem.
The primary responsibilities for this role will include
Assist with the development of Visa Account Attack Intelligence to recognize and prevent cybercrime – to include brute force testing, payment account enumeration, terminal fraud and testingServe as a Global Risk Subject Matter subject matter expert on various fraud schemesProvide data analysis and response to alerts relative to significant fraud eventsAssist investigations teams and global risk manager teams with data analytics, relative to external compromise events and investigate caseworkContinuously question and consider new techniques to stay ahead of organized cybercriminals and fraudstersDevelop metrics and total fraud statistics surrounding cybercrime case reports and investigations.Assist in the coordinated compilation and delivery of fraud reporting, briefings, and other related communication products to management and external clientsCompile reporting on internal incident response measures of successProvide meaningful and consistent feedback to developers. An enthusiastic desire to tangibly improve your work tools is essential
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 with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Moderate understanding of networks, risk management, network security, digital forensics, and security operations
• Ability to conduct complex analytical functions by performing fraud assessments and analyzing criminal methods
• Knowledge of transactions, systems processing transactions and overall transaction process.
• Adaptable and able to work well in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Prior experience with data analytics, visualization tools, and concepts
• Proficiency with drafting detailed, technical reports
• Ability to respond after-hours, weekends, and holidays to major fraud events
• Passion for fraud schemes and cybercrime investigations
• Good interpersonal, facilitation, and demonstrated emerging leadership skills
• Understanding of payments process and cybercrime and fraud techniques
• Able to operate at an advanced level of written and spoken communication, write and speak effectively with impact
• Previous experience in developing and producing reports to executive management
• Ability to prepare reports on meaningful trends and fraud stats
• High level of self-motivation and initiative
Preferred Qualifications
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Direct experience with ISO 8583, transaction routing, VCMS, Base I, and Base II platforms
• Concepts, terms, processes, policy, and implementation of information security
• Intelligence databases and analytical tools or similar intelligence reporting systems
• Analysis of cyber threat intelligence and fraud intelligence.
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.