Description
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Counsel, Canada Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere, by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.Role:
The Manager, Counsel, Canada position, will be based in Toronto, Ontario and will report to the Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Canada. This individual will be part of the Canadian and Americas Law team, supporting the Canadian business.
Responsibilities:
• Provide legal and business risk assessment and analysis on matters from new product constructs to commercial agreements.
• Identify and advise on intellectual property, competition, regulatory and data privacy product risks, with support of Mastercard's intellectual property, regulatory and data privacy counsel.
• Negotiate complex customer business agreements including product, solution and strategic partnership agreements, identifying legal and business risks and recommending solutions.
• Foster and build strong relationships with business stakeholders, global product counsel, and other legal and franchise colleagues to promote cross-functional and cross-regional collaboration.
• Work cross-functionally across issuer, acquirer, merchant, digital and services business lines to provide holistic support to the region.
• Train and educate internal clients on processes, risks and changes in laws and regulations on an ongoing basis.
• Drive process improvements and efficiencies; own and execute solutions to support our strategy and drive towards streamlining processes to increase ease of doing business.
All About You:
• A qualified lawyer with a solid academic and training background, licensed to practice in Ontario; French language is an asset but not required.
• Able to work collaboratively, spot issues, prioritize and multi-task effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Solutions orientated problem solver and able to work flexibly under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Keen business insight and strong communication skills to interact confidently and effectively with internal clients, Mastercard customers and law department colleagues, including senior management and Mastercard executives.
• Strong drafting, writing and negotiating skills across a range of complex commercial contracts and the ability to analyze and identify the core legal issues.
• A fast learner who can gain rapid familiarity with complex products and solutions and maintain knowledge of those changing products and solutions.
• A heightened working knowledge of data privacy, regulatory and intellectual property issues.
• A team player, willing to take on responsibilities and roles that support the team, department, region and the company. Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
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