Sr. Analyst

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The Acceptance Solutions team is part of the Value-Added Services (VAS) organization and is responsible for enabling and growing acceptance products and services across the CEMEA region.

This role will be responsible for leading Visa'sacceptance localization strategy and execution across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA. The role will drive the identification, prioritization, and delivery of localization requirements necessary to support domestic payment schemes, national payment infrastructure initiatives, local routing mandates, regulatory requirements, and market-specific acceptance needs.

The successful candidate will serve as the CEMEA subject matter expert for card-present acceptance localization and will work closely with regulators, national payment companies, financial institutions, acquirers, processors, merchants, and internal Visa stakeholders to ensure Visa's in-person acceptance capabilities support local market requirements and evolving payment ecosystem needs.

This role will partner extensively with Global Product teams, Core Processing and Network teams, Technology teams, Government Engagement, Legal, Risk, and Compliance organizations to assess market requirements, define product and processing enhancements, influence product roadmaps, and drive the delivery of localization initiatives across the acceptance ecosystem.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing regional localization strategies, conducting market and regulatory assessments, translating local requirements into actionable business and technical specifications, supporting client engagements, and ensuring successful deployment of localized acceptance capabilities across CEMEA markets.

This position would be ideal for a candidate with extensive experience in merchant acquiring, payment acceptance, payment processing, domestic payment schemes, regulatory programs, or in-person payments product management. The role is part of the hub team covering the CEMEA region and will report to the Acceptance Solutions Lead within the VAS organization.

• Be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for in-person acceptance localization across CEMEA, covering merchant acquiring, acceptance infrastructure, card-present payments, domestic payment schemes, and local routing initiatives.
• Lead Visa's regional strategy for localization of in-person acceptance capabilities to address regulatory requirements, domestic payment scheme mandates, and national payment infrastructure initiatives.
• Analyze and translate regulatory, market, and domestic scheme requirements into clearly documented business, operational, and technical requirements.
• Partner with regulators, central banks, national payment companies, and government stakeholders to understand evolving payment ecosystem requirements and represent Visa's acceptance capabilities.
• Work closely with Government Engagement, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Regional Product teams to assess the impact of local payment requirements and define Visa's response strategy.
• Collaborate with Global Product, Technology, Acceptance Solutions, and Core Processing teams to build business cases, prioritize market requirements, and drive product roadmap enhancements.
• Partner with Visa Net, network processing, and core processing teams to evaluate technical implications of localization initiatives and identify scalable implementation approaches.
• Drive end-to-end execution of localization initiatives including requirements gathering, impact assessments, stakeholder alignment, business case development, delivery tracking, testing, certification support, and market readiness activities.
• Support domestic payment scheme enablement initiatives, including co-badging programs, local routing, domestic acceptance mandates, and national payment infrastructure projects.
• Assess acquiring, processing, and acceptance…