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Title and Summary

Manager, Risk Management

Risk Manager, First Line Risk, Real Time Payments (RTP)

Role Profile/Job Description

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, or DQ, 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 The First Line Risk & Controls team within Real-Time Payments International (RTPI) is looking for a Manager, Risk Management to help mature how we identify, own, manage and report risk across our real-time payments markets. We are seeking an experienced risk and controls professional with a strong background in technology, payments or financial services. You will be comfortable working across product, engineering, operations and risk teams, able to understand complex issues, challenge constructively and translate risk requirements into practical actions. You will combine strong analytical skills with a pragmatic approach to risk and control management.

Role As part of the First Line Risk & Controls team, you will support the implementation and ongoing operation of the risk management programme and internal control framework across RTP International. In this role, you will:

• Partner with product, engineering, operations and risk teams to identify, assess, monitor and manage key risks and controls, providing constructive challenge where appropriate.

• Monitor the risk and control environment, identifying emerging risks, trends, issues and areas requiring management attention or escalation.

• Support risk and control assessments, assurance activities, operational resilience, business continuity and audit, and drive the effective remediation of identified weaknesses.

• Maintain high-quality risk information and deliver clear, insightful reporting to support management decision-making.

• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate and improve risk and control processes, monitoring and reporting.

• Build strong relationships across the business, promoting a strong culture of risk ownership and accountability.

All About You The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Have advanced, applied knowledge of risk and control frameworks and the three lines of defence model, ideally within technology, payments or financial services.

• Be able to identify, assess, monitor and manage operational and technology risks, providing constructive and proportionate challenge to the business.

• Combine strong analytical skills with the ability to understand complex issues and translate risk requirements into practical, sustainable actions.

• Be a clear and confident communicator, able to produce insightful risk reporting and influence stakeholders across product, engineering and risk teams.

• Be comfortable operating across organisational boundaries, building trusted relationships and promoting risk ownership and accountability.

Desirable or additional capabilities:

• 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.

Corporate Security Responsibility Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.