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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 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
As Mastercard is a global company, we sometimes have team members from outside of the location listed on this posting that are reviewing submitted applications. Please attach a copy of your resume in English to expedite the screening process.
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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