Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Job Description

This high impact, high visibility position is part of Payment Systems Intelligence - a key component of Global Risk's Payment Ecosystem Risk and Control (PERC) initiative. PERC's team of technology experts are vital to Visa's efforts to identify, investigate, disrupt and prevent attacks targeting the global payment ecosystem. This role will specifically aid in the all-source and technical analysis of cybercrime and fraud operations targeting the global payments ecosystem, with a specific focus on global scam campaigns.

The Senior Analyst will be responsible for supporting efforts to identify, investigate, disrupt, and develop intelligence reporting on the most prolific and impactful scam activity targeting Visa payments.

The Senior Analyst will also be researching, drafting, publishing, and presenting client‑facing and public intelligence reports on behalf of Visa Inc. The Senior Analyst will support a key functional area of Visa with fraud and scam investigations, intelligence collection, client fraud and cybercrime discussions, and additional ad‑hoc intelligence and cybercrime requests as needed. Key measures of success for this position include: reduced successful cyber fraud targeting financial institutions, identification and successful disruption of scam activity, the ability to support early identification of new fraud trends and tactics through intelligence collection and investigations, rapid response, triage and analysis of technical forensic investigation reports and ability to conduct analysis of material cybercrime, fraud and scam events.

• Support efforts to disrupt scam activity, including uncovering scam infrastructure using closed and public sources, connecting infrastructure and common indicators across numerous investigations, and acting upon investigation findings to disrupt scam activity at the source.
• Support the development of robust and detailed processes for identification of scam activity, intake of reports from key partners, triage of identifications and reports to pursue most pertinent investigations, and follow the investigation through to disruption of the scam campaigns.
• Manage vendor relationships and identify new and novel ways to utilize vendor tools for scam disruption.
• Draft, publish, and present intelligence reporting for multiple audiences, including senior leadership, external clients, and for public consumption.
• Identify new fraud and cybercrime threats to the payments ecosystem and communicate them to relevant stakeholders.
• Triage and analyse forensic investigation reports, identification of technical correlations between cybercrime attacks, and ability to develop digital infrastructure maps (domains, IPs, malware variants) of overlapping cybercrime operations.
• Provide intelligence and technical analysis support to the Investigations team during official PCI forensic investigations.
• Support Visa risk personnel with investigations, intelligence collection, and extracting actionable information from intelligence sources.
• Conduct all‑source analysis of cybercrime and fraud tools, methods, and attacks in order to communicate these threats to internal Visa partners and external clients.
• Provide presentations to global audiences on cybercrime and fraud threats impacting the payments ecosystem.
• Other duties as assigned.

This role is a Hybrid position to be located in either our Austin or Atlanta office locations. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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.

• 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.
• 6-8 years' experience in payment card or information security industry, all‑source cyber intelligence organizations, investigating payment card, cybercrime…