Specialist, Legal Services

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

Specialist, Legal Services

The GBSC (Global Business Solutions Center) is the shared services organization for Mastercard. Consistent with the One LFI model, GBSC is partnering with the Law and Franchise Integrity team to build a legal shared services function. The GBSC team is predominantly co-located in a collaborative working environment in the heart of the Mastercard Technology Operations headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Select regional hubs exist to provide additional scale and agility. The GBSC provides services to all regions and all business units spanning 50 countries.

• Does the pursuit of excellence appeal to you?
• Are you committed to customer service?
• Do you have a keen eye for details?
• Are you passionate about identifying and implementing process improvements?

If so, keep reading as this might be the perfect role for you.

Role

• Drafts, reviews and prepares routine legal agreements, documents, contracts, leveraging established templates
• Compiles data related to a legal case or contract preparation (e.g., examining online legal resources, codes, agreements and other related items)
• Reviews legal/contractual terms and issues and summarizes deal points for attorneys
• Maintains and updates contract/form templates under supervision
• Responds to general correspondence and preparing routine legal documents, leveraging established templates
• Utilizes document management system; including tracking, compiling and disseminating information on a regular basis
• Coordinates training sessions and/or events conducted by the law department
• Maintains and updates intranet and external site for specialty area (e.g., patent) for IP Paralegal
• Prepares documents and arranges payments (e.g., annuities and taxes) for trademark registration maintenance

All About You
• Demonstrated talent for contract analysis, coupled with advanced data entry skills
• Proven ability to manage workloads involving tasks of varying priority and complexity
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on collaborating with key legal and business stakeholders to confirm legal and business contract terms
• Ability to recognize when to escalate and when to exercise independent judgement and discretion in reviewing and summarizing contracts

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.