Senior Managing Counsel - RTP International Job Listing at Mastercard in Singapore (Job ID R-228484)

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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

Senior Managing Counsel - RTP International Senior Managing Counsel – RTP International

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.

Our decency quotient 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.

Overview

Mastercard's Real Time Payments (RTP) Team is looking for a Senior Managing Counsel (VP) to join an established team supporting the RTP International business.

The RTP business is responsible for designing, building and operating industry-leading bank account-based payment systems. Our technology powers payment solutions which underpin many economies, including in the U.S., Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Peru, Sweden, Norway and Denmark as well as the UK's Faster Payments, Bacs and LINK ATM systems.

We are looking for a candidate who will be passionate about the payments business, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

This role will report to the Senior Vice President, Real Time Payments. The role will be based in Singapore or Malaysia with international travel as necessary.

Key Aspects of the Role

As the Senior Managing Counsel for Vocalink International business, you will take a major role in overseeing and handling all legal matters for the business on a day-to-day basis and will:

Providing incisive, business-friendly explanations and advice to senior management;

Communicating effectively to all levels of senior management through updates and clear, concise presentations;

Lead a legal team which supports multiple markets/regions for software licences and managed services for immediate payments;

Handle high value bids, contractual negotiations and ongoing contract support with customers and suppliers;

Being a tough and effective advocate for the RTP business through the coordination and drafting of submissions, talking points and other materials, to protect business interests and enhancing the brands;

Act as a strategic business partner and enabler to the RTP International business and assume a senior leadership role within the business;

Assist the RTP International leadership team in the management of legal and commercial risks;

Develop strong relationships and coordinate with key stakeholders including regulatory legal, company secretarial privacy, risk, compliance, regional attorneys and public policy;

Enable critical product development initiatives within RTP International

Manage external advisors within agreed policy and budget;

Provide training to sales and product teams;

Identify and implement process improvements and transformation programs;

Providing incisive, business-friendly explanations and advice to senior management.

About You

We are looking for someone who is well-rounded, can work independently and is not afraid to “roll their sleeves up and get stuck in”. It is about being creative in solving issues where the focus is not on “winning at any cost” but on helping the RTP business to be successful. A track record of success in legal practice in fields drawn from regulation, technology, finance, corporate, and commercial would be preferable and experience of working within the Payments sector an advantage, but not essential. Excellent written and oral communication skills and a time sensitive and results driven approach to work are pre-requisites.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are priorities at Mastercard – we welcome and promote diversity amongst our people and firmly believe that our team must represent the people we serve; diversity of thinking is critical to the success of any business, and this is as true in the legal function as elsewhere in the organisation.



A Bit More About Us

This role will be based in Singapore or Malaysia but we partner with colleagues Globally.

At Mastercard you will work alongside innovators and leaders in payments, data, banking and financial services all of whom are proven practitioners who understand how to meet the evolving needs of businesses and consumers. Our engineers, product specialists and developers are leaders too, drawing on experience from within and outside financial services to deliver transformational payments solutions.

We are driven by the belief that whatever we do as a business has to be done in the right way. The Mastercard Way is fundamental to our approach: Create Value; Grow Together; and Move Fast and is underpinned by our commitment to Do the Right Thing – being decent, inclusive and a force for good, is at the core of who we are as a company.

Working as part of the RTP team is demanding. We are at the forefront of account-to-account payments, and we recognise this can be challenging at times. Equally, we want you to enjoy working for us. No-one will question you taking ‘time-out' in the middle of the day to help recharge your batteries, or just sitting outside with a cup of tea. Output is what counts. Furthermore, we understand the importance of connecting with each other – so, if you share an interest with others at Mastercard, then there is probably a Business Resource Group of like-minded individuals that you can join.

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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