Description
Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Risk Management to join the First Line Risk & Controls team within Real-Time Payments International (RTPI). The successful candidate will help mature how the company identifies, owns, manages, and reports risk across its real-time payments markets.
The Manager, Risk Management will support the implementation and ongoing operation of the risk management programme and internal control framework across RTP International. Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with product, engineering, operations, and risk teams to identify, assess, monitor, and manage key risks and controls
- Monitoring the risk and control environment, identifying emerging risks, trends, issues, and areas requiring management attention or escalation
- Supporting risk and control assessments, assurance activities, operational resilience, business continuity, and audit, and driving the effective remediation of identified weaknesses
- Maintaining high-quality risk information and delivering clear, insightful reporting to support management decision-making
- Identifying opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve risk and control processes, monitoring, and reporting
- Building strong relationships across the business, promoting a strong culture of risk ownership and accountability
The ideal candidate will have advanced, applied knowledge of risk and control frameworks and the three lines of defence model, ideally within technology, payments, or financial services. They will be able to identify, assess, monitor, and manage operational and technology risks, providing constructive and proportionate challenge to the business.
Desirable capabilities include:
- Working knowledge of GRC tooling (e.g., Archer, OpenPages)
- Familiarity with operational resilience, business continuity, and audit/assurance activities
- Understanding of real-time payments or critical payment infrastructure
- A relevant professional risk qualification or certification
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.