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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
Director, Risk Management Mastercard (NYSE: MA), www.mastercard.com, is a global payments and technology company. It operates the world's fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Mastercard's products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, traveling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone.Our industry will see greater change in the next five years than it has over the past five decades. As the shift to digital payments accelerates and as other external factors affect our industry, all players need to continue to innovate to stay ahead of the change and deliver the simplest, safest and most secure payment solutions. This means having access to cutting-edge and reliable products and services.
To navigate the changing landscape, Mastercard has invested in technology and people to help our customers keep up with the ever-changing industry, so that their customers in turn have the best experience at every stage of the payment journey.
Mastercard is committed to driving transformation in digital, growing our services business and many other new endeavors.
To meet the needs of this dynamic and evolving ecosystem, this role is responsible for managing the overall risk process and plan for CPP, and for ensuring alignment, progress and communication against all strategic initiatives. This role is also responsible for leading and managing special risk projects across the CPP business as needs arise.
Are you a risk professional who would like to adapt and build upon your experience for a global technology company?
Do you enjoy collaborating with senior executives across the globe to identify and create risk action plans in support of a dynamic, evolving business?
Do you like to communicate department strategies and track and drive progress against strategic initiatives?
Role
• Create and execute risk and operational excellence plan, working in close partnership with a cross-functional team
• Define risk policy for new opportunities; create solutions for the business that ensure easy adherence partnering closely with CPP business lines and enterprise risk functions
• Create, implement, and manage processes to mitigate risk to the business, inclusive of identification of top risks to the business and conducting cross-functional workshops to creating mitigation plans and reporting them back to the business
• Be a thought leader on risk, bringing new perspectives and external expertise to extend risk insight across CPP
• Be a liaison to Enterprise Risk functions and drive risk management within CPP
• Communicate strategies, plans and progress to the business via presentations, discussions, scorecards, etc. in line with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) requirements and guidelines
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams to identify, assess, and mitigate strategic and operational risks
• Develop and maintain CPP risk material (e.g., heat map, risk register, mitigation plans etc.) utilizing ERM's tools and templates.
All About You
• A natural trailblazer who proactively seeks new knowledge and innovative ways of doing things
• Robust experience in a risk function at bank/financial services, building and implementing solutions to manage risk effectively
• Ability to build and maintain strong, positive working relationships at all functional levels essential and effectively collaborate in a team environment
• Ability to drive for results and work independently in a self-directed manner while operating in a team environment, and navigating competing priorities—urgency, agility and flexibility are key
• Demonstrated creative and innovative problem-solving skills
• Strong analytical and communication skills (verbal and written)
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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