Director, Risk Management Latin America & Caribbean Job Listing at Mastercard in Bogotá, Bogota (Job ID R-234923)

Description

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Director, Risk Management Latin America & Caribbean Who is Mastercard?

• 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
• The Americas Strategy & Operations team leads key strategic initiatives for the region, provides analytics and insights to drive business results, monitors risks, assists with the articulation of the North America and Latin America strategies and progress against them, and manages the business administration function supporting the President of Americas.
• Reporting to the Americas Strategy & Operations Vice President, the Director Risk Management for Latin America & Caribbean will ensure a broader and deeper assessment of regional risks; investigating key topics, articulating thoughtful courses of action and risk mitigating activities, and tracking response plans

Role
• Manages the regional Business Risk Control Committee, chaired by the LAC President and consisting of LAC's senior leadership team, working with partners to prepare in depth analysis of key risk topics, facilitating discussion and managing outputs and deliverables
• Provides support to the business on key risk assessment activities and develop / track response plans (e.g. for new products, initiatives or partners)
• Oversees key LAC strategy /risk initiatives, driving alignment, execution and measurement
• Provides analytical and strategic insights, as well as thought leadership to drive priority projects
• Advises and support local and/or regional business strategies; partners with local teams to optimize risk-related policies and a holistic risk perspective
• Implements the corporate Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) risk appetite framework to measure and assess overall regional risk exposure
• Leads risk aggregation and consolidation process to communicate regional risks, mitigation activities and impact on our regional business strategy to senior management

All About You
• Knowledge of the payments industry required
• Experience in financial / risk quantification or legal risk strongly preferred
• Sound problem solving, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Ability to take many, complicated inputs and distill into simple solutions
• Proven project management skills
• Experience developing and managing processes and dashboards for effective risk reporting
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Fluency in Spanish and English, both written and spoken, is a must. Portuguese is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skill, ability to influence at all levels and work collaboratively across multiple groups and all levels of management Mastercard is an 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. 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

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