Cybersecurity Associate – Regulatory, Audit, and Compliance- Local Candidates Only

About the position This Cybersecurity Associate position will serve as part of Visa's Cybersecurity Regulator, Audit, and Compliance function within the Cybersecurity Governance Risk and Compliance and M&A Integration (GRC) team, reporting to Director/Sr. Director. This position will provide oversight, coordination, and deliver the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests while effectively balancing the individual elements of these activities. In addition, you will be building, implementing, and optimizing Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tools and solutions for our team. This role translates regulatory and audit requirements into scalable, automated technical workflow enabling efficiency and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and coordination of activities supporting successful internal and external audits, compliance initiatives, regulatory engagements, and responses to external customer or client requests.
• Demonstrate familiarity with regulatory standards that enable Cyber teams to achieve various compliance certifications, such as PCI and RBI.
• Support validation of the ongoing effectiveness of both automated and manual Cybersecurity controls across Visa by collaborating with control owners and evaluating control design and program standards.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Technology, Compliance, Audit, and HRIS teams to automate manual compliance and control processes, ensuring continuous audit readiness.
• Proactively identify, assess, and implement advanced tools — including AI and machine learning — to enhance automation, efficiency, and risk mitigation within the Regulatory, Audit, and Compliance domains.
• Develop intuitive dashboards and reporting solutions for stakeholders, providing real-time insights into the risk and compliance posture of critical business systems.
• Document assessment findings, prepare supporting workpapers, and substantiate assessment conclusions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Nice-to-haves

• 2 or more years of work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or Business Administration or another related field.
• 1-3 years of work experience in Information Security, Audit, Risk, and/or Compliance
• Open to experience in other relevant fields (e.g., finance, business administration, information technology, etc.) if candidate can demonstrate relevancy to this Information security-based role
• Experience working with multiple individuals on internal and external delivery
• Exceptional communication skills - both written and verbal to support compliance and certification audits
• Skills in Python or similar scripting languages for building automation scripts.
• Ability to synthesize a variety of data points, problem solve and formulate comprehensive and effective execution and risk mitigation plans
• Must be extremely flexible and able to manage multiple tasks and priorities on very tight deadlines.
• Experience in Audit/Compliance/Regulatory discussions and proactive readiness activities in a large global financial institution or a matrix organization
• 2 years of direct participation and experience across common industry security policy areas, including, but not limited to ISO, NIST, COSO, COBIT, PCI, RBI Regulations, SOX, SSAE16/ISAE3402, SOC 2 and others
• Experience with LLM-based architecture, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A).
• Hands-on experience with AI-powered workflow automation platforms (e.g., RPA + AI, Copilot integrations).
• Knowledge of data governance principles, including lifecycle management and unstructured data handling.
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, PCI QSA/ISA, Cloud (Azure AI, AWS AI/ML) Certifications preferred

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program

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