Senior Manager, Lac Supervision and Risk Governance

**Company Description**
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This Senior Manager position within the LAC Risk Function will support the LAC Supervisory Lead/Regulatory and Risk Governance -RRG- Senior Director, as well as the LAC RRO, on supervisory and regulatory risk management matters for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LAC) region.

The objective of the role is to manage and oversee engagements with the relevant regulators on supervisory matters within the LAC region, in close collaboration with Government Engagement, Legal and Compliance, in alignment with the LAC Supervisory Framework and consistent with the Global supervisory Engagement Model.

The Sr. Manager will support the execution of the regional framework for identifying, monitoring, and managing supervisory requirements, obligations and engagements, coordinating responses for regulatory reporting obligations and inquiries from regulators in the LAC region.

The Sr. Manager will assist the LAC Supervisory Lead/RRG Senior Director and the RRO with key department initiatives and ongoing efforts such as tracking, metrics, presentations and reporting to Senior Management.

This position will report to the LAC Supervisory Lead/RRG Senior Director and will be based in either in Mexico.

**Description and primary responsibilities**

The Sr. Manager will assist in producing holistic support to enhance and optimize the supervision framework in the region, through:

- Ensure that regulatory requests are addressed in a timely and consistent manner.
- Build-out metrics regarding trends and supervisory impact in LAC to ensure an on-going measurement of goals and desirable outcomes from the different stakeholders.
- Maintain a repository of information used to respond to regulatory inquiries or consultations.
- Develop, deploy and maintain reporting and analytic solutions to streamline the regulatory reporting processes in LAC, leveraging the Global Risk Technology Transformation, which improve the effectiveness and efficiency to comply with regional regulatory reporting, and define a periodic testing to ensure accuracy on the information provided.
- Support the implementation of regulatory frameworks to address proactively regulatory requirements and reporting obligations.
- Partner with business and functional teams to engage with government stakeholders, to foster sound conditions to operate across the region, obtain Visa operating licenses in key markets (as necessary), and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Support other Corporate Risk initiatives including client regulatory support as needed.
- Work closely with the LAC Supervisory Lead/RRG Senior Director and Supervisory Risk Leads in other regions to drive a consistent approach for topics that are relevant across various regions.
- Provide regular and ongoing reporting, metrics and information related to regulatory and supervisory management and assist with presentations and training materials.

In addition to the primary responsibility, the person in this role may be called on to support the team as needed.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
**Qualifications**

Basic Qualifications
8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent)
- 7+ years of relevant experience in one of the following functions: Corporate/Risk Governance, Risk Management, Compliance, Audit, Regulatory Management, Legal or related areas
- Experience with regulator management (direct or indirect)
- Understanding of current and emerging payment system regulation/supervision in countries in LAC or US
- Experience preparing/reviewing/delivering executive level communications
- Previous experience in coordinating multi-functional teams to execute in market risk functions, programs and initiatives
- Experience in payments/banking or related segments, or alternately, good understanding of payments business and associated risks
- Fluent in spoken and written English a