Risk Manager (Resilience) – MPS

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

Risk Manager (Resilience) – MPS

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
Mastercard Payment Services (MPS) provides critical services to Danish and Norwegian national payment infrastructure. We are in the process of transitioning from legacy infrastructure to a Mastercard infrastructure including shared services. During the integration period and beyond, the second line Risk Management Team will have a critical role managing and supporting the risk process.
The Nordic Team of Enterprise Risk Management is looking for a Risk Manager Resilience who will have responsibility for championing Operational Resilience risk management practices.
Based in Oslo or Copenhagen and reporting to the 2nd line Risk Management VP in Oslo, this role offers an exciting opportunity to join the Mastercard Risk Team supporting MPS in the Nordic region.
About the position
We are seeking a candidate with operational resilience and preferably risk management experience to join our 2nd line risk team. This role is key to ensuring the operational resilience of our infrastructure, safeguarding against disruptions/incidents, and risks are mitigated which could impact services to our customers. Working closely with business risk owners, the 1st line risk team, Tech Risk Management (TRM), Biz Ops, and Engineering teams in order to ensure robust governance frameworks are in place to assess, monitor, and mitigate risks effectively. This involves actively engaging with stakeholders to validate risk assessments, challenge assumptions, and enforce compliance with established policies and procedures. Additionally, the incumbent will contribute to the development and enhancement of governance structures to foster a culture of risk awareness and accountability across the organization.
Responsibilities include the following:
• Partner with Mastercard global Technology Risk Management and Biz Ops teams for all risk related activity to ensure alignment on risk management methodology and practices.
• Conduct independent assessments of the first line's internal controls, scrutinizing their design and effectiveness to identify deficiencies, deviations, and compliance gaps, while providing constructive challenge and recommendations for enhancement
• Develop and update risk and control process documentation
• Liaise with and support the risk and control owners to resolve any questions, queries and problems relating to technology risks
• Provide risk briefings to the management ensuring risks, issues and appetite breaches are monitored and escalated thoughtfully
• Work with control owners to collect security and operational metrics required for management reports and dashboards
• Coordinate internal and external audits including but not limited to gathering, reviewing, and storing of evidence, scheduling meetings with stakeholders, liaising with internal control owners and the external auditors to ensure smooth completion of the audits.
• Ensuring the reslience and effectiveness of our services, with strong internal partner management and external relationship management of key vendors
• Collaborate with internal and external partners, ensuring that appropriate frameworks are in place with third parties to mitigate risks and deliver maximum value
• Manage and oversight the operational and resilience and associated risks of our supply chain, against the backdrop of evolving external regulatory requirements
• Provide input to scenario testing, running pilots and designing templates for vulnerabilities
• Developing and providing training and communications to reinforce and embed key requirements
• Identify and evaluate resilience solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs
All About You:
• Relevant experience of working in a complex (preferably global) stakeholder environment that includes complex customers and regulators.
• Experience of working in regulated payments and financial services
• Ability to assess technology controls, vulnerabilities, and potential risks
• Experience in handling regulatory and customer audits, conducting assessments and good understanding of governance, risk and compliance practices.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to develop trusted relationships with peers and senior stakeholders.
• A strong understanding of risk strategy and frameworks with an ability to identify, articulate and manage risks as well as the wider evolving regulatory landscape for resilience
• Strong time management and organisational skills
• Previous exposure to Linux and/or Windows Operating Systems, coding languages, and/or Networks
• Ability to articulate themselves clearly and concisely to a broad range of senior and junior stakeholders
• Strong influencing skills; organizationally savvy
• Problem solving – excellent analysis and deductive skills
Join Us
If you are passionate about operational resilience risk management and ready to make a meaningful impact in safeguarding the operations our of managed services and software sales services, we invite you to join our dynamic team. Apply now to be part of our mission to ensure the stability, security, and resilience of our payment systems and services.

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.