Sr. Manager, Government Affairs

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Team Summary

The Australia, New Zealand & Pacific Islands (AUNZPI) Government Affairs (GA) team is part of the Asia Pacific GA team. Within this dynamic sub-region, GA aims to achieve broad alignment between Visa’s business objectives and public policies that affect the payments industry. Externally, the GA team engages a wide range of stakeholders to raise awareness of, and build support for, policies that expand access to and usage of digital payments in Australian, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

The team also takes the lead on certain areas, including international trade. Internally, GA works closely with colleagues across the company, including Strategy, Government Solutions, Visa Consulting & Analytics, Marketing, Communications, Social Impact & Sustainability, Risk, Legal, and Compliance.

Across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, the focus on fundamental areas of payments policy and regulation is intensifying – including pricing and interchange, local processing requirements, national supervision, and competition – while at the same time new areas, such as open data, artificial intelligence, stable coins, real-time payments, digital currency, and sustainability/green finance, are gaining an ever-increasing profile.

This Senior Manager role, to be based in Sydney, will report to the Head of Government Affairs, AUNZPI, as well as the Group Country Manager for AuNZPI, the Country Manager for NZPI, and the Head of Government Affairs, Asia Pacific (AP). The successful candidate will be a key point of contact both internally and externally for Visa’s GA activities across all forms of government in Australia and the Pacific Islands, including regulatory bodies such as the Reserve Bank of Australia.

The individual will assist with assessing regulatory conditions and business needs across Australia and the Pacific Islands and contribute to aligning on priorities with key internal and external stakeholders. They will work closely with market leads, AuNZPI and AP GA hub colleagues and Visa experts to help advise business colleagues on the full range of current and emerging payments policy matters.

• Prominently positioning the value of Visa with political, regulatory and policy decision-makers in Australia and the Pacific Islands
• Monitoring regulatory developments, the policy agenda of the Australian and Pacific Islands’ Governments, and other developments that affect Visa’s business, and developing internal reports for advising senior colleagues and others about potential next steps for Visa
• Proactively shaping the near-term regulatory landscape, including through the development of submissions to government and regulators. Constructive input and engagement with government stakeholders on existing and new public and regulatory policies, with a view to ensure positive impact on Visa’s business, and the expansion of the electronic payments industry in general
• Proactively identifying partnership opportunities with governments and key stakeholders and ensuring Visa is well positioned to take advantage of these opportunities with government agencies in the delivery of government payments, expansion of transit and tourism, furtherance of financial inclusion, adoption of e-commerce, small-medium enterprise digitalization, fintech enablement, and other potential government programs that may benefit from the application of electronic payments
• Providing strategic inputs on Visa’s Australian…