Manager, Risk Management

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

Manager, Risk ManagementOverview

• 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 US, Canada and Latin America strategies and progress against them, and manages the business administration function supporting the President of Americas.
• The Manager Risk Management for Canada 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 for Mastercard Canada

Role

• Manages the regional Business Risk Control Committee, chaired by the Canada President and consisting of Canada'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 Canada 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
• 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
• Location of role: Toronto

Mastercard is a merit-based, 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact 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.