Vice President, 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

Vice President, Risk Management

Overview

• Provide business risk management analysis, program management, coordination, and oversight of business risk across the Asia Pacific region;
• Drive, identify and facilitate the mitigation of business risks (e.g., strategic, operational, legal/ regulatory, brand/ reputation) for the Asia Pacific (AP) region.

Responsibilities

The RPL is responsible for implementing strategies and regional business risk policies and procedures to manage business risks and to drive sound risk management best practices and governance across the AP region;

• Collaborate closely with regional business owners and functional owners to effectively manage emerging threats and risks to the businesses
• Drives and implements cross-functional initiatives to deliver risk management objectives
Lead and manage regular Business Risk Control Committee (BRCC) meetings to key business risk issues across the region;
• Liaises with business partners to document best practices for risk processes and continuous improvement activities;
• Track outstanding risks issues and action ownership to ensure timely closure of business risk issues;
• Ensure appropriate ownership, timely formalization and governance of business risks;
• Align with global Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) policies and objectives to ensure consistency in the management and reporting of risks.

Experiences

• At least 10 years of risk management or related experience;
• Ability to manage complex and regional risk management function;
• Proven track record in managing the resolution of critical business issues and/or incidents;
• Working knowledge of leading industry risk management standard like ISO31000 and regional central banks’ risk management frameworks;
• Team player and ability to work collaboratively with different stakeholders across a matric organization to drive consensus and results;
• Good and effective communicator.

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.